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First Steps for Peace in the Middle East
Steven Spiegel, a professor of political science and director of the Center for Middle East Development, is a leading expert on U.S. policy in the Middle East. A longer version of this article recently appeared in the Israeli paper Ha'aretz. (Photo courtesy of pbs.org)
Posted: 10/23/2007
Get Out of Iraq Within a Year, Urges Former US Defense Official
Larry Korb, a former assistant defense secretary under Reagan, wants to keep a regional military presence and to keep intervening in Iraq, but he thinks that continuing the occupation does more harm than good. He and Phillip Carter, a UCLA alum and Iraq war veteran, take questions on the war and Gen. Petraeus's strategy.
Posted: 10/1/2007
Petraeus' Optimistic Take on Iraq War Not a Consensus
The Daily Bruin, September 27, 2007
Posted: 9/27/2007
US Intelligence Shortcomings Still Exist, Professor Amy Zegart.
UCLA Magazine,
September 11, 2007
Posted: 9/21/2007
The Military in Iraq are Resolving Nothing, Wesley K. Clark
The Independent, September 9, 2007
Posted: 9/11/2007
9/11 Didn't Change Much About Intelligence-Gathering, Prof. Amy Zegart
UCLA News, September 6, 2007
Posted: 9/6/2007
Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers, Wesley K. Clark and Kal Raustiala
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Wesley K. Clark and Center Director Kal Raustiala argue in The New York Times that the current U.S. practice of declaring terrorists "enemy combatants" at once impairs counterterrorism efforts and endangers civil liberties at home.
Posted: 8/8/2007
A Stroll in Beirut
"Symbols of the intractable problems of the Middle East stood in striking contrast to the pleasures of life pursued by the resilient Lebanese as I took a walk downtown from the American University with a friend earlier this month," writes UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr in the Palisadian-Post.
Posted: 7/2/2007
Europe's 'Different Adventure'
The keynote speaker at a UCLA conference on security issues in Europe and Eurasia revisits the meaning of European unity.
Posted: 6/15/2007
Kal Raustiala in the Los Angeles Times: A Bill of Rights Without Borders
A 50-year-old court decision on constitutional protections overseas comes into play in the war on terror, writes Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 6/15/2007
Teaching Sept. 11
UCLA political scientist Marc Trachtenberg, who teaches a Burkle Center-backed course on the post-9/11 world, explains in a newspaper article that current events can be approached with detachment.
Posted: 6/5/2007
Princeton Philosopher Urges Rich to Give More to Poor
Peter Singer's message is uncomfortable: Most people follow a minimalist morality that makes them a lot more immoral than they consider themselves to be.
Posted: 6/4/2007
Etzioni Puts Security Before Elections
The professor and public intellectual Amitai Etzioni practices the Socratic method at UCLA, arguing for a foreign policy that proceeds from the human right to be free from harm.
Posted: 5/21/2007
Online Conflict Reporting Hits the Big Screen
Pioneering solo journalist Kevin Sites screens his film about the civilian cost of war.
Posted: 5/1/2007
'American Islam Crystallized After 9/11'
CUNY's Mehdi Bozorgmehr, a sociology PhD from UCLA who directs a research center on both the Middle East and Middle Eastern Americans, explains the importance of religious identity in post-9/11 advocacy for groups affected by backlash.
Posted: 4/16/2007
Complex Issues Explored on Film
Documentary unearths different perspectives, definitions of terrorism and counterterrorism
Posted: 4/11/2007
The Roots and Global Dimension of Modern Terrorism
"Modern terror began in the 1880s. Small groups in many countries were able to terrify masses because the invention of dynamite gave them new powers, and the bomb has remained the principal weapon of terror ever since," writes David C. Rapoport.
Posted: 4/10/2007
Lebanon War Coverage Dissected at Conference
A discussion among two Los Angeles Times editors, one historian, and a UCLA audience exposes gaps in expectations about how violence gets reported.
Posted: 4/5/2007
News Accuracy in Israel-Lebanon Conflict Questioned
Because so many sources recording the war differed on reported facts, the war left international media and historians arguing over who started it and who the true victors of the war were, several speakers said. The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies was a co-sponsor of this event, organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Group.
Posted: 4/4/2007
Kal Ruastiala in The New Republic Online: George W. Bush, Multilateralist.
"Obsessed with maintaining a maximally free hand, the Bush administration often finds international commitments--and even international restraints--paradoxically attractive when dealing with federal judges," writes Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in The New Republic Online.
Posted: 3/27/2007
US Experts Address Nuclear Proliferation, Terrorism
Nuclear terrorism threatens to wreck nuclear peace, which has lasted 61 years despite the presence of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles around the world, noted Nobel laureate Tom Schelling, one of the key speakers at the conference.
Posted: 3/14/2007
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