Breaking the Cycle: U.S. Policy, Peace, and the Future of the Middle East

For more than seventy-five years, American policy has played a defining — and often destabilizing — role in the Middle East. In Kicking the Hornet’s Nest, historian Daniel Zoughbie traces how twelve U.S. presidents, from Truman to Trump, have shaped the region’s turbulent trajectory through decisions that continue to reverberate across borders and generations. In Tomorrow Is Yesterday, diplomat and analyst Robert Malley draws on his decades of experience inside the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to provide a sobering account of missed opportunities, political delusions, and the hard truths behind today’s ongoing conflict. In a conversation that examines the legacy of power and diplomacy, Zoughbie and Malley unpack eighty years of foreign policy in the region and consider the possibility of peace in the Middle East.