Conference Readings
For more context, background and additional information on the subject and themes of the conference, please refer to the following list of articles, authored by a selection of our panelists. Click the panelist's or moderator's name to access selected articles.
Panel I: Bringing States Back In
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- Panelist: Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University & Council on Foreign Relations
- How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
- The End of the America Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century. New York: Knopf, 2002.
- Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001.
- Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
- Atlantic Security: Contending Visions. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1998.
- Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995.
- The Vulnerability of Empire. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994.
- VIDEO: "Governing the West: Politics and Foreign Policy in an Age of Polarization." Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. 4 January 2011.
- VIDEO: "How Enemies Become Friends." C-SPAN. 6 December 2010.
- VIDEO: "Diplomatic Engagement Versus War." Carnegie Council. 8 April 2010.
- Panelist: Bruce Jentleson, Duke University
- Panelist: Etel Solingen, UC Irvine
- Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation (under contract, Cambridge University Press)
- "The Genesis, Design and Effects of Regional Institutions: Lessons from East Asia and the Middle East," International Studies Quarterly, 52. 1 (June 2008).
- Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- "Pax Asiatica versus Bella Levantina: The Foundations of War and Peace in East Asia and the Middle East." American Political Science Review, 101. No. 4 (November 2007).
- Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998.
- Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 1996.
- "The Political Economy of Nuclear Restraint." International Security, 19. No. 2. (Autumn, 1994).
- Moderator: Kal Raustiala, UCLA
Panel II: Prospects for Change Inside Iran
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- Panelist: Abbas Milani, Stanford University
- The Shah. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2010.
- "The Shah's Atomic Dream." Foreign Policy. 29 December 2010.
- "The Good Ayatollah." Foreign Policy. March/April, 2010.
- "The Tipping Point in Iran." The Wall Street Journal. 29 December 2009.
- "An Evening in Support of the Bahais of Iran." The New Republic. 15 August 2009.
- Eminent Persians: Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2007.
- Tales of Two Cities, a Persian Memoir. Waldorf, Maryland: Mage Publishers, 2006.
- Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran. Waldorf, Maryland: Mage Publishers, 2004.
- The Persian Sphinx, Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution.Waldorf, Maryland: Mage Publishers, 2003.
- VIDEO: "The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran." Stanford University Hoover Institute. 29 September 2010.
- VIDEO: "Nuke, Kooks and Democracy in Iran: a discussion of Iran's current political situation, and the prospects of democracy, and a resolution of the country's nuclear program." Authors @ Google. 13 August 2008.
- Panelist: Ali Alfoneh, American Enterprise Institute
- Panelist: Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Moderator: Asli Bali, UCLA
Panel III: Iran and the International Community
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- Panelist: Jon Alterman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Panelist: Dalia Dassa Kaye, RAND
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- Irans Nuclear Future: Critical U.S. Policy Choices (RAND Corporation, forthcoming 2011).
- "Iran might not be the big winner of Mideast uprisings." The Washington Post. 4 March 2011.
- "A WikiLeaks Disconnect." The Los Angeles Times. 6 December 2010.
- "Fifth Columns in the Gulf?" with Frederic M. Wehrey. Foreign Policy. 24 May 2010.
- "Containing Iran? Avoiding a Two-Dimensional Strategy in a Four-Dimensional Region," withFrederic M. Wehrey. The Washington Quarterly, 32. No. 3 (July 2009).
- "Defeating Hamas Will Not Defeat Iran." Foreign Policy, 14 January 2009.
- "More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World," co-author. RAND Corporation. (2008).
- "A Nuclear Iran: The Reactions of Neighbours," with Frederic M. Wehrey. Survival, 49. No. 2. (2007).
- "Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia." RAND Corporation. 2007.
- "Time for Arms Talks? Iran, Israel, and Middle East Arms Control." Arms Control Today. 2004.
- "Bound to Cooperate? Transatlantic Policy in the Middle East."The Washington Quarterly, 27. No. 1. Winter 2003-04.
- Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: 1991 - 1996 New York:Columbia University Press, 2001.
- VIDEO: "Effects of Wikileaks on Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. "CSPAN. 4 January 2011.
- Panelist: Mahsa Rouhi, Harvard University
- Moderator: Deborah Avant, UCI
- Who Governs the Globe? Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- "Opportunistic Peacebuilders? International Organizations, Private Military Training and State-building after War," in Roland Paris and Tim Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Post-war Peace Operations, New York: Routledge, 2008.
- The Market for Force: the Consequences of Privatizing Security, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- "Institutions and Military Effectiveness," in Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Panel IV: The U.S. and Iran
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- Panelist: Reuel Gerecht, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
- The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, 2011.
- The Islamic Paradox: Sunni Fundamentalists, Shiite Clerics, and the Coming of Arab Democracy. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 2004.
- Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran. [Under pseudonym Edward Shirley]. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997.
- Panelist: Paul Pillar, Georgetown University
- Panelist: Gen. Wesley K. Clark, UCLA Burkle Center
- "Gen. Wesley Clark Says Libya Doesn't Meet the Test for U.S. Military Action," Washington Post, 14 March 2011.
- A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country, with Tom Carhart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- "The Next War," Washington Post, 16 September 2007.
- "Averting the Next Gulf War," Op-Ed. Washington Monthly, 15 March 2007.
- Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.
- VIDEO: "What Comes Next for Libya?" CNN, 21 March 2011.
- VIDEO: "Remarks to the National Council on U.S. - Arab Relations Conference." C-SPAN. 30 October 2008.
- Panelist: Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council
- Moderator: Mike Shuster, NPR
- "Working In Shadows: Best U.S. Policy Toward Iran?" NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, Middle East: NPR. 11 May 2011.
- "Covert War With Iran: A 'Wilderness Of Mirrors'" NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, Middle East: NPR. 10 May 2011.
- "Inside The United States' Secret Sabotage Of Iran" NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, Middle East: NPR. 9 May 2011.
- "Death of Former Iranian General In Question" NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts: NPR. 6 Jan. 2011.
- "Iran Spat Pits President Against Supreme Leader" NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts: NPR. 30 Dec. 2010.
- “Will Sanctions On Iran, N. Korea Work?" with Renee Montagne. Tabnak.ir. 22 July 2010.
- "Could Deterrence Counter A Nuclear Iran?" NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts: NPR. 25 Aug. 2009.
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