Mr. Makovsky is the coauthor of a variety of Washington Institute monographs on issues related to the Middle East Peace Process and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Mr. Makovsky is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affair.
The Middle East Peace Process project organizes a range of Policy Forums and off-the-record roundtable discussions designed to encourage discussion and open exchange between Washington policymakers and their Middle Eastern counterparts.
Before joining The Washington Institute, Mr. Makovsky was an award-winning journalist who covered the peace process from 1989 to 2000. He is the former executive editor of the Jerusalem Post, was diplomatic correspondent for Israel's leading daily, Haaretz, and is a former contributing editor to U.S. News and World Report.
Mr. Makovsky is the coauthor with Dennis Ross of the 2009 book Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East (Viking/Penguin).
He is also the author or coauthor of a variety of Washington Institute monographs on issues related to the Middle East Peace Process and the Arab-Israeli conflict, including these titles: Lessons and Implications of the Israel-Hizballah War: A Preliminary Assessment (2006); Olmert's Unilateral Option: An Early Assessment (2006);
Mr. Makovsky is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In July 1994, with the personal intervention of then Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Mr. Makovsky became the first journalist writing for an Israeli publication to visit Damascus. In total, he has made five trips to Syria, the latest in December 1999 as he accompanied then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In March 1995, with assistance from U.S. officials, Mr. Makovsky was given unprecedented permission to file reports from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for an Israeli publication.