Enduring Hostility: The Making of America's Iran Policy 

 

A book-event with author Dalia Dassa Kaye

Moderated by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

In-person event

This event will introduce material from and update the arguments in the author's late 2025 Stanford University Press book that has gained a special urgency in the months since its publication. How can we place the war underway now in Iran into historical perspective? What is similar and different about Washington's military moves against Iran and the wars that the U.S. has been involved in during previous decades and has fought recently in other parts of the world? These questions, which could not be more timely, will be among those taken up at this book launch.

 

Sponsors: UCI's Forum for the Academy and the Public, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, and History Department.

 

Speaker: Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and director of its Initiative on Regional Security Architectures. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she is an internationally recognized expert on geopolitics and Middle East policy and the author of Enduring Hostility: The Making of America's Iran Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025).

 

 

Moderator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Distinguished Professor of History at UCI whose areas of research include the history of U.S-China relations. He is a co-founder of UCI's Forum for the Academy and the Public.