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Ambassador Eric Garcetti delivers the 2025-26 Bernard Brodie Lecture on the Conditions of Peace: Building Peace while Fighting Fires - Obligation and Integration in the Age of Rage

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Video and podcast now available! Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff delivers the 2025-26 Arnold C. Harberger Lecture

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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

Ambassador Michael McFaul, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014) and Ken Oliver and...

Thursday, April 16, 2026
12:15 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA School of Law, Rm 1314

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The 2025-26 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace: Building Peace while Fighting Fires - Obligation and Integration in the Age of Rage

Ambassador Eric Garcetti, 26th United States Ambassador to India and 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles

Tuesday, April 21, 2026
4:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA University Club (Former Faculty Club), Morrison Room

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Video and podcast now available! Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff delivers the 2025-26 Arnold C. Harberger Lecture

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In Second Week, Iran War Expands Through Region

"It really is important to note that despite all of this hostility, we're in new......

Friday, March 13, 2026

The Mirage of a New Middle East

“There is no silver bullet to bring about a more stable Middle East. On the......

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Burkle Senior Fellow Dalia Dassa Kaye joins KTLA to discuss U.S. strike on Iran

"What is so confusing about this war is there was no imminent threat...There is a......

Monday, March 2, 2026

Alexandra Lieben comments on Austria offering safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities

“There was a real shock among everybody, and a paralysis that went along with that.......

Friday, February 13, 2026

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Kal Raustiala comments on Trumps's visit to Davos on the Marketplace Podcast

"I think Greenland was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back because it......

Friday, January 23, 2026

Dalia Dassa Kaye joins Press Play with Madeleine Brand to discuss Iran and her new book, "Enduring Hostility"

The U.S. relationship with Iran is now "the longest adversarial relationship [in the history of......

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Military Force Will Not Help the People of Iran

"The President and other senior officials have offered mixed messages on the purpose of military......

Friday, January 16, 2026

Kal Raustiala joins Tavis Smiley

Kal Raustiala, UCLA law professor and author of “The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the......

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Dalia Dassa Kaye joins CNN to discuss the 2025 Gaza ceasefire plan

"We need to have a sustained end of fighting, not just a pause, but a......

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Dalia Dassa Kaye joins the BBC to discuss the Gaza peace proposal

“The worry is that there are a lot of short-term and long-term obstacles that remain,......

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

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Benjamin Radd joins CNN to discuss disparate responses to Charlie Kirk's assassination and political violence

"Consensus doesn't go viral. Consensus doesn't give you hits or likes on the internet or......

Friday, September 12, 2025

Israel's squandered victory

"Netanyahu may be correct in surmising that Israel's neighbors respect its new position of strength,......

Friday, August 1, 2025

How the Israel-Iran-U.S. War forever changed the Middle East

Burkle Center Senior Fellow Dalia Dassa Kaye joins podcast Global Dispatches to discuss Israel's strategic......

Friday, July 18, 2025

How did Israel and Iran go from strategic allies to bitter enemies?

Dalia Dassa Kaye, Burkle Center Senior Fellow, takes a deep dive into the history of......

Friday, July 11, 2025

Negotiation as a tool of war

Eric Min, assistant professor of political science and global studies at UCLA, uses both quantitative......

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Ambassador Eric Garcetti delivers the 2025-26 Bernard Brodie Lecture on the Conditions of Peace: Building Peace while Fighting Fires - Obligation and Integration in the Age of Rage

Registration open! Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

Video and podcast now available! Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff delivers the 2025-26 Arnold C. Harberger Lecture

Thank you to our Helsinki Accords at 50 speakers!

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In Second Week, Iran War Expands Through Region

The Mirage of a New Middle East

Burkle Senior Fellow Dalia Dassa Kaye joins KTLA to discuss U.S. strike on Iran

Alexandra Lieben comments on Austria offering safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities

Kal Raustiala comments on Trumps's visit to Davos on the Marketplace Podcast

Dalia Dassa Kaye joins Press Play with Madeleine Brand to discuss Iran and her new book, "Enduring Hostility"

Military Force Will Not Help the People of Iran

Kal Raustiala joins Tavis Smiley

Dalia Dassa Kaye joins CNN to discuss the 2025 Gaza ceasefire plan

Dalia Dassa Kaye joins the BBC to discuss the Gaza peace proposal

Benjamin Radd joins CNN to discuss disparate responses to Charlie Kirk's assassination and political violence

Israel's squandered victory

How the Israel-Iran-U.S. War forever changed the Middle East

How did Israel and Iran go from strategic allies to bitter enemies?

Negotiation as a tool of war

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