US-Iranian engagement : toward a grand agenda? / Daniel Brumberg; Eriks Berzins

Abstract

"On February 23, 2009, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), together with the United Nations Association-USA and the Rockefellers Brothers Fund, organized a roundtable discussion among top Middle East experts and former United States Government officials. Held at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the meeting focused on prospects for creating a diplomatic framework through which the United States and Iran might forge and sustain a strategic engagement initiative. This Working Paper highlights the main contours of this debate, while pointing to diplomatic strategies and steps that the Obama administration might take to overcome obstacles obstructing US-Iranian rapprochement." (USIP)