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Legality, Legitimacy and the Iraq War
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Burkle Center Senior Fellow.
Posted: 2/7/2007
Group Combats for Peace
The Thursday night discussion was part of a month-long tour sparked by the killing of the 10-year-old daughter of Bassam Aramin, one of the founders of Combatants for Peace.
Posted: 2/2/2007
Clark: Iraq War Legal, Not Legitimate
Retired General Wesley K. Clark, a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, explains to a packed Law School auditorium that the United States has "squandered its mantle of legitimacy in this conflict."
Posted: 1/23/2007
Surprised, Again, by Dutch Voters
A visiting historian and a UCLA political scientist analyze November's inconclusive election in the Netherlands.
Posted: 12/15/2006
What Should America's Strategy Be in the Middle East?
A look at the policies of 11 U.S. presidents since the creation of the new Middle East in 1948 provides useful clues to a sound and viable strategy in the region, writes UCLA political scientist Steven Spiegel.
Posted: 12/13/2006
Clash of Values or Interests? US Policy in the Middle East
A public lecture by Jerrold Green, RAND Corporation, part of the Center for Near Eastern Studies Fall lecture series on The New Middle East: Five Years After 9/11, exploring the most recent events in the Middle East, while providing perspective and analysis from a variety of points of view.
Posted: 12/7/2006
New Old Lebanon
A public lecture by As'ad Abukhalil, CSU Stanislaus and UC Berkeley, part of the Center for Near Eastern Studies Fall lecture series on The New Middle East: Five Years After 9/11, exploring the most recent events in the Middle East, while providing perspective and analysis from a variety of points of view.
Posted: 12/7/2006
Middle East Series Goes On
Cal State Stanislaus professor speaks on current condition of Lebanese politics
Posted: 11/29/2006
Back to the Future in the Middle East
A lecture by Barry Rubin, Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center in Herzliya, Israel, part of the Center for Near Eastern Studies Fall lecture series on The New Middle East: Five Years After 9/11. The series explores the most recent events in the Middle East, while providing perspective and analysis from a variety of points of view.
Posted: 11/22/2006
The American Approach to the Middle East
A lecture by Steven L. Spiegel, Professor of Political Science at UCLA, part of the Center for Near Eastern Studies Fall lecture series on The New Middle East: Five Years After 9/11. The series explores the most recent events in the Middle East, while providing perspective and analysis from a variety of points of view.
Posted: 11/16/2006
Talk Analyzes Effects of Arab Nationalism
This lecture was part of the Center for Near Eastern Studies' fall lecture series called "The New Middle East: Five Years After 9/11," which aims to explore the recent issues with multiple professional points of view. The next public lecture is scheduled for Nov. 16 at 2:30 p.m. in Bunche 10383.
Posted: 11/14/2006
Dershowitz Shifts Focus to World Outside Israel
In talk co-sponsored by CNES, the Harvard professor and author argues "obsessive" focus on Israel takes time and energy away from the protest of other more serious human rights violations perpetrated by other countries.
Posted: 11/9/2006
Dershowitz to Discuss Israel at UCLA
Student groups host controversial speaker, who has repeatedly defended the country’s military actions. [The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the School of Law are co-sponsoring the event with two student groups.]
Posted: 11/8/2006
Experts Assess Iraq's Horrific Toll
Health-care professionals intimately familiar with the war's effects on bodies and minds shared their perspectives at a conference sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, UCLA Extension, and the School of Public Health.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Film Captures Vietnam-Israel Connection
The UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies present a documentary recounting the true story of Vietnamese immigrants to Israel.
Posted: 11/6/2006
Powell Showcases Middle East in American Popular Fiction
The exhibit, curated by CNES Assistant Director Jonathan Friedlander, runs Nov. 6-Jan. 12 at UCLA’s Powell Library. A Jan. 11 lecture will treat the Middle East in American crime fiction.
Posted: 11/2/2006
Intrastate Conflict Management and Regional Security: The Israel-Hizbullah Confrontation in Historical Perspective
A lecture by Avraham Sela, Colgate University and Hebrew University, part of the Center for Near Eastern Studies Fall lecture series on The New Middle East: Five Years After 9/11. The series explores the most recent events in the Middle East, while providing perspective and analysis from a variety of points of view.
Posted: 11/1/2006
Focusing on the Palestinian Narrative
Columbia professor's new book aims to discuss the group's history without using other peoples' lenses. The lecture was co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Posted: 10/27/2006
Former Israeli Soldier Gives Talk on Conflict
Avraham Sela, a political science professor who served in the Israeli Military Intelligence for 16 years, said the way to stabilize the region is to turn Hezbollah into a political party and keep it from becoming an autonomous military power in Southern Lebanon.
Posted: 10/27/2006
Israel's Premier Dancers to Perform at UCLA
This Nov. 4-5 the Batsheva Dance Company will present "Three," a new work by Ohad Naharin.
Posted: 10/27/2006
CNES Launches Podcasts on Post-9/11 Middle East
A Fall 2006 lecture series goes live. The first speaker, Rutgers political scientist Eric Davis, charts a path towards democracy in Iraq.
Posted: 10/26/2006
Eric Davis Lecture: In Iraq, Democracy is the Only Answer
This lecture is part of the Center for Near Eastern Studies Fall lecture series on The New Middle East: Five Years After 9/11, exploring the most recent events in the Middle East, while providing perspective and analysis from a variety of points of view.
Posted: 10/25/2006
Lebanon's War With Cluster Bombs
The 40% of Israeli-dropped 'bomblets' that didn't explode during this summer's war continue to kill Lebanon's most vulnerable, writes Professor Saree Makdisi in the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 10/25/2006
UCLA Ethnomusicologist on Arab Classical Sounds
Racy explains pleasures of a musical tradition to the Kansas City Star.
Posted: 10/19/2006
Gen. Wesley Clark Joins UCLA's Burkle Center
Clark will host a major conference on campus this winter on the future of the Middle East.
Posted: 9/27/2006
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