He currently serves as vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on the Middle East.

[3] Muasher began his career working as a journalist for the Jordan Times, the only Jordanian newspaper in the English language.

He returned to Jordan in January 2002 to serve as foreign minister, where he played a central role in developing the Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East roadmap.

The National Agenda was never actually realized because, according to Muasher, it was thwarted by a group of political elites and bureaucrats, eager to keep a rentier-based state system, rather than one based on merit.

[7] He currently serves as vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on the Middle East from Washington, D.C., and Beirut, Lebanon.