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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