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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
ASLI BÂLI is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. She teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights and a seminar on the Laws of War. Bâli’s research interests focus on public international law generally, including the intersection of international law and international relations, as well as issues of non-proliferation, human rights and humanitarian law. She also has a strong interest in the comparative law of the Middle East. Among her recent publications is “Negotiating Non-Proliferation: International Law and Delegation in the Iranian Nuclear Crisis” (2014).
ALBERT CARNESALE is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He joined UCLA in 1997, and was Chancellor of the University through 2006 and Professor of Public Policy and of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering through 2015. His research and teaching continue to focus on public policy issues having substantial scientific and technological dimensions, and he is the author or co-author of six books and more than 100 articles on a wide range of subjects, including national security strategy, arms control, nuclear proliferation, domestic and international energy issues, and higher education.
DALIA DASSA KAYE is the director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. In 2011-2012 she was a visiting professor and fellow at UCLA's International Institute and Burkle Center. Before joining RAND, Kaye served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Dutch Foreign Ministry. She also taught at the University of Amsterdam and was a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations. From 1998 to 2003, Kaye was an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including a Brookings Institution research fellowship and The John W. Gardner Fellowship for Public Service. Kaye publishes widely on Middle East regional security issues, including in journals like Survival, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Foreign Policy, and Middle East Policy. She is author of Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia (RAND), Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Columbia University Press) and has co-authored a number of RAND monographs on a range of regional security issues. Kaye received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
STEVEN SPIEGEL is Director of the Center for Middle East Development and Professor of Political Science at UCLA. Through the innovative and informal negotiation techniques he has developed, Dr. Spiegel helps produce cutting edge ideas for promoting Middle East regional security and cooperation. Professor Spiegel is co-author of The Peace Puzzle: America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace from 1989-2011, published in early 2013 by Cornell University Press. He is also co-author of a major international relations textbook, World Politics in a New Era, now published in sixth edition from Oxford University Press. Steven Spiegel is at work on a book on American-Israeli relations and is conducting a study of the role of high technology innovation by small states on the future of great powers. He is the editor-in-chief of the Routledge UCLA Center for Middle East Development series on Middle East security and cooperation, and authored among other writings, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan, published by the University of Chicago press.
For background reading please see:
- NPR's "6 Things You Should Know About The Iran Nuclear Deal"
To download the full report please see:
- Politico's "Full text of the Iran deal"
Photo: Irankonferenz. (© Österreichische Außenministerium/Wikipedia Commons, 2014; cropped. CC by 2.0.)
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Center for Middle East Development