William B. Quandt is an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Virginia. He served on the National Security Council staff in the 1970s and was a key policy advisor to President Carter's team during the negotiations for the 1978 Camp David Accords negotiations and the subsequent Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. Quandt was a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution for many years and has authored numerous books, papers, and articles on the Middle East.
""No other book presents such a variety of perspectives, options, and predictions about the 'power triangle' that binds and divides Turkey, Israel and the United States."" --Stephen Kinzer, author of Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future ""From now on, this book will serve as the new baseline for identifying and evaluating further changes in these countries' relations..."" --Shai Feldman, director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University