BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e34ff763ee0c031153adcdee4c6469a0 DTSTAMP:20260521T133532Z SUMMARY:Book Talk | Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Poli cy DESCRIPTION:Contact: lisa.strombom@svet.lu.se\n\nA timely and rigorous anal ysis of a half-century of American policymakers' shifting perceptions of I ran\, and how they have driven US-Iran relations.US–Iran hostility has e ndured for longer than the Cold War. Momentous geopolitical shifts\, chang ing leaderships\, and evolving domestic priorities have not fundamentally altered this antagonistic relationship. Standard explanations pin the blam e for this enduring hostility on Iran and its leaders' revolutionary ideol ogy and policies at odds with the United States and the West. While Iran b ears significant blame for a deeply adversarial relationship—the country often engages in dangerous and repressive activities—this book demonstr ates that "it's them\, not us" accounts cannot alone explain America's pos ture toward this complicated but critically important country. Drawing on original interviews with former government officials\, oral histories\, me moirs\, congressional hearings\, archival material\, and the author's own participation in dozens of Iran-related track two meetings\, Dalia Dassa K aye deftly explores how America's Iran policy is made\, the people who mak e it\, and the underlying ideas and perceptions that inform it. Dassa Kaye looks back at US policy toward Iran over the past four decades to help us look ahead\, offering wider lessons for understanding American foreign po licymaking and providing critical insights at a pivotal time of heightened military tensions in and around the Middle East.About the author: Dr. Dal ia Dassa Kaye \;is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for Inter national Relations and director of its Initiative on Regional Security Arc hitectures. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, Dalia is a n internationally recognized expert on geopolitics and Middle East policy. During her fifteen years at the RAND Corporation\, Dalia served as a seni or political scientist and the director of the Center of Middle East Publi c Policy. \;She has received numerous awards and held previous positio ns at an array of research and public policy institutions\, including as a Fulbright Schuman visiting scholar at Lund University\, a fellow at the W ilson Center\, an advisor at the Foreign Ministry of The Netherlands\, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University\, a research fellow at the Brookings Institut ion\, and a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. \;She is a frequent public speaker and contributor to leading media outlets\, including BBC\, CNN\, NPR\, PBS\, and Foreign Affairs. She is the author of dozens of art icles and policy reports\, as well as three books\, including most recentl y Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy (Stanford Univ ersity Press\, 2026). \;Dalia holds her BA\, MA\, and PhD in political science from the University of California\, Berkeley.About the book:https ://www.sup.org/books/politics/enduring-hostility\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/book-talk-enduring-hostility-m aking-americas-iran-policy DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260528T111500 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260528T123000 LOCATION:CMES seminar room\, Finngatan 16. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR