Conference Readings

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
  • The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas, with Steven Weber, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.
  • American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century. 4th edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
  • "Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy," Center for a New American Security. July, 2008, co-author.
  • VIDEO: "The Obama National Security Strategy." LSE IDEAS Transatlantic Relations Programme. 14 February 2011.
  • VIDEO: "Reviewing a Decade of Conflict Prevention Work." Council on Foreign Relations. 10 December 2007.
• 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
  • Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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
  • "Iran's Secret Network: Major General Qassem Suleimani's Inner Circle." Middle Eastern Outlook No. 2, March 2011.
  • "Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani: A Biography." Middle Eastern Outlook No. 1, January 2011.
  • "The Revolutionary Guard' Looting of Iran's Economy." Middle Eastern Outlook No. 3, June 2010.
  • "What Do Structural Changes in the Revolutionary Guards Mean?" Middle Eastern Outlook No. 7, September 2008.
  • "The Revolutionary Guards' Role in Iranian Politics." Middle East Quarterly Fall 2008. Volume XV: Number 4.
  • "How Intertwined Are the Revolutionary Guards in Iran's Economy?" Middle Eastern Outlook No. 3, October 2007.
  • VIDEO: "The Khamenei-Ahmadinejad Regime & the Challenge of Iran." The Middle East Institute. 19 February 2010.
• Panelist: Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • "Persia's Little Prince." Foreign Policy. 7 January 2011.
  • "The Sources of Soviet Iranian Conduct: George Kennan's Fifteen Lessons for Understanding and Dealing with Tehran." Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. December 2010.
  • "Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader." Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2009.
  • VIDEO: "Unrest in Iran." CNN. 20 February 2011.
  • VIDEO: "Why Iran is Different from Egypt." CNN. 15 February 2011.
• Moderator: Asli Bali, UCLA
  • "American Overreach: Strategic Interests and Millennial Ambitions in the Middle East." Geopolitics. 15, No. 2. 2010.
  • "From Subjects to Citizens? The Shifting Paradigm of Electoral Authoritarianism in the Middle East." Middle East Law and Governance Vol. 1. August, 2009.
    

Panel III: Iran and the International Community

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• Panelist: Jon Alterman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • "The Vital Triangle:  China, the United States and the MIddle East," with John W. Garver. The Center for Strategic and International Studies: Significant Issues Series, 30. No. 2, (2008).
  • Understanding Islamic Charities. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2007.
  • New Media, New Politics? From Satellite Television to the Internet in the Arab World The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. 1998.
  • VIDEO: "Clear Gold- Author Spotlight." Center for Strategic & International Studies. 13 December 2010.
  • VIDEO: "Iran: Addressing the Nuclear Threat." Center for Strategic & International Studies. 21 September  2010.
  • VIDEO: "The Future of US-Iran Relations." C-SPAN. 30 January 2009.
• Panelist: Dalia Dassa Kaye, RAND Corporation
  • 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
  • Daily blog, National Interest.
  • "Intelligent Design? The Unending Saga of Intelligence Reform." Foreign Affairs. March/April 2008.
  • "Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq," Foreign Affairs, March-April 2006. 
  • Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
  • VIDEO: "A Lecture by Dr Paul R. Pillar; United States Meets Europe." Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. 4 January 2011.
• 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
  • "Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle" Time. 15 March 2010.
  • Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States. New Haven Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007.
  • "Long Division." The American Conservative. 10 September 2007.
  • "The geo-strategic roots of the Israeli-Iranian enmity," Limes - Eurasian Review of Geopolitics. No 5. 2005. 
  • VIDEO: "Anti-Government Protests in Iran." C-SPAN. 12 December 2009.
  • VIDEO: "Iran, Israel and the United States." Conversations with History- UC Berkeley. 2007
• 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.