Reawakening: The New, Broader Middle East

In Reawakening: The New, Broader Middle East, Jerry Rosenberg proposes a practical set of models and flow-charts for a reinvented Marshall Plan of the region's twenty-eight nations. Following a detailed review of the 1948 European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan), Rosenberg illustrates the similarities and differences between a post-World War II rebuilding and reconstruction effort in the Middle East. He concentrates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq. As with the original Marshall Plan, Reawakening focuses on regional economic integration, suggested institutions and forms of governance, so that a more stable and prosperous Middle East can be developed.


The 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.
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.