Welcome

Jerry M. Rosenberg is Founder and Director of the Center for Middle East Business Studies, Rutgers Business School, a 2006 Marshall Foundation Fellowship winner, and Professor of International Business at Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey.  His Ph.D. is from New York University.  Professor Rosenberg has had 33 books published on a number of topics, including The Peace Dividend: Creating a Middle East/ North Africa Community and most recently Reawakening: The New, Broader Middle East.  Professor Rosenberg's interests include regional economic integration, reconstruction and financial assistance, a Middle East Economic Community, governance and institutional building, and global trade and investment.

The Book

Reawakening is an evolution of Professor Rosenberg's ideas and proven models for a reinvented Marshall Plan and eventual regional economic community in the new, broader Middle East.  As newly defined, the area includes both North Africa, the Central Asian states, and the traditional Middle East countries.  In total, it is composed of 28 nations, with a population nearing 500 million people.

This book reflects many of the current events that are on-going considerations within the region including the Iraq war, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the struggle between Fatah and Hamas, the tensions with Iran and Syria, and the summer 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.

Following invited briefings with the U.S. Department of State, the World Bank, and other global institutions, this volume incorporates options to the present dialogue as future shifts will move from military to economic and political strategies.

Assuredly, these issues will be primary during the 2007-2008 race for the next U.S. President, and will take center stage in debates and decisions around the world.

Availability

This book is available for download on this website in PDF format at no cost.  Both leaders and policy-makers, and interested individuals will have immediate and open access to the ideas and concepts contained within.  The over-arching theme of this book is that economic integration in the Middle East will be neither fast nor painless, so the sooner planning begins, as it did in Bretton Woods one year before the end of World War II, the better off future generations will be.

~Jerry M. Rosenberg                             February 20th, 2007

"Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past."

~Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli Prime Minister; assassinated November 4th, 1995