Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.

About the Event

UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center Director Professor Dov Waxman and Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye, Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations and director of its Initiative for Regional Security Architectures, will analyze the escalating conflict between Israel, Iran, and Hezbollah and its potential developments and repercussions.

 Professor Kal Raustiala, Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, will serve as moderator for the online discussion.

About the Speakers

Dalia Dassa Kaye is currently a senior fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations and directing its Initiative for Regional Security Architectures. Dr. Kaye served as the director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation from 2012-2020 and as a senior political scientist at RAND since 2005. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and recipient of many other awards and fellowships, she is a frequent public speaker and commentator on international affairs and Middle East policy in a wide range of media outlets. Kaye is the author of two books, Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process and Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia, as well as numerous journal articles, op-eds, and RAND studies.

Dov Waxman is the Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He is a professor of Political Science and The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA. Waxman's research focuses on the conflict over Israel–Palestine, Israeli politics and foreign policy, US–Israel relations, American Jewry’s relationship with Israel, Jewish politics, and anti-Semitism. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and four books, most recently The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Kal Raustiala (Moderator) is the Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School, Professor at the UCLA International Institute, and Director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. From 2012-2015 he served as UCLA’s Associate Vice Provost for International Studies and Faculty Director of the International Education Office. Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property. 

DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies or the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.

Sponsor(s): Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Burkle Center for International Relations