An Old Tale: The Theory of Dialogue After Manufactured Shocks
The article examines Paul D. Wolfowitz’s strategic ideas—manufacturing threats, using faits accomplis in negotiations—and how these approaches influenced policies like the ‘Deal of the Century’ and the US embassy move to Jerusalem.
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23-7-2018
· The mathematician from New York University, the American thinker Paul D. Wolfowitz...a Polish Jew..born in 1943 in Warszawa, he occupied numerous political and military positions, especially in the Pentagon, and is the author of the theory of American ultimate military dominance...and an opponent by all means of the emergence of rival powers to the United States of America, especially the European Union....an expert in inventing threats and manufacturing them. The originator of the idea of recruiting "the opportunistic agents" in threat areas, and recruiting "the anti-ally allies", and the idea of teams of "the frightening experts"...and one of the theorists of the idea of not focusing on the probability of an event as much as on the severity of its consequences....he contributed to formulating a new system for the neoconservatives.
· This strategic-military thinker of the American establishment until recently..and of whom "Dennis Ross" was one of his staff members when Ross was young and an expert in Soviet affairs, and later became a negotiator on the Middle East issue during Clinton's presidency..........Paul Wolfowitz proposed another idea for the foundations of dealing with the Arabs, based on his experience with them in his previous missions in the Middle East, that the best method to open any subject with the Arabs is to "put them before a fait accompli" from which to begin the dialogue with them......
· This is one of the foundations of the idea of the Deal of the Century ...and the announcement of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem and considering it the capital of Israel...!
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “An Old Tale: The Theory of Dialogue After Manufactured Shocks” (English translation of «الحكاية من زمان....نظرية الحوار بعد صنع الصدمات», originally published 20 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/an-old-tale-the-theory-of-dialogue-after
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