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Institutional
Affiliations
U.S. Committee
for a Free Lebanon: Member of Board of Directors (5)
American
Enterprise Institute: Former Research Fellow and Director of
Middle East Studies Program (2)
Lebanon
Study Group Report: Signatory (2000) (3)
Institute
for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies: Director of Research
in Strategy and Politics Program (1996) (2, 4)
Washington
Institute for Near East Policy: Director of Institutional Grants
(1994-1996) (2)
Middle
East Forum: Member, Lebanon Study Group (3)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Office
of the Vice-President: Middle East Adviser (2003-current) (1)
U.S. Department
of State: Special Adviser to Under Secretary of State for Arms
Control and International Security (2001-2003) (1)
U.S. Institute
of Peace: Project Officer (1988-1994) (2)
Education
Johns Hopkins
University: B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (2, 4)
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Highlights
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David Wurmser,
Dick Cheney's Middle East adviser, is a neocon ideologue who has
participated in several key reports outlining the neoconservative
agenda in the Middle East. In 1996 he helped write a report for
Israel's Likud party that urged Israel to break off then-ongoing
peace initiatives. The report, which was titled "A Clean Break:
A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" and was published by
the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (an Israeli-
and DC-based think tank) advised then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu "to work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain,
destabilize, and roll-back" regional threats, help overthrow
Saddam Hussein, and strike "Syrian military targets in Lebanon"
and possibly in Syria proper. Coauthors of the report included Richard
Perle, Meyrav Wurmser, and Douglas Feith. (6)
In 2000, Wurmser
worked on a strategy document published by Daniel Pipe's Middle
East Forum and Ziad Abdelnour's U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon
that advocated a wider U.S. role in Lebanon. The study, "Ending
Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role?" called for the
United States to force Syria from Lebanon and to disarm it of its
alleged weapons of mass destruction. It also argued that "Syrian
rule in Lebanon stands in direct opposition to American ideals"
and criticized the United States for engaging rather than confronting
the regime. Among the documents signers were several soon-to-be
Bush administration figures, including Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith,
Michael Rubin, and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula
Dobriansky. Other signers included Richard Perle, Jeane Kirkpatrick,
Michael Ledeen, and Frank Gaffney. (1, 3)
Wurmser is
married to Meyrav Wurmser, the director of Middle East studies at
the right-wing Hudson Institute.
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