Iran War: A Regional and Global Strategic Appraisal
This Monday, April 6
1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern / 21:00 UK / 23:00 Israel–Palestine
What is at stake in the Iran War, and what are the broader implications of the war in the regional and global context? What have the United States and Israel achieved thus far in the war, and what have been the costs? What factors will determine Israel’s next steps in Iran and Lebanon (and perhaps Yemen)? How has the war impacted Israeli domestic politics?
Dr. Dan Schueftan, one of Israel’s leading academic national security experts, will discuss these and other key issues raised by the ongoing war.
This is the fifth event in the Center’s urgent series offering different perspectives on the 2026 Iran War.Register
Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Public Policy and the UCLA Center for Middle East Development.
About the Featured Speaker
Dr. Dan Schueftan is the Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Sciences there, and at the Israel Defense Forces National Defense College. For the 2012–14 academic years, he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Government, Georgetown University in Washington, DC. For the last four decades, he has been a consultant to Israeli decision-makers and the top echelon of Israel’s national security establishment, and has briefed senior political leaders and officials in the United States and Europe. Dr. Schueftan has published extensively on contemporary Middle Eastern history, with emphasis on Arab-Israeli relations, Inter-Arab politics, and
American policy in the Middle East. His books cover a wide variety of topics—A Jordanian Option: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians (1986); Attrition: Egypt’s Post War Political Strategy 1967–1970 (1989); Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Entity (1999), and Palestinians in Israel: The Arab Minority and the Jewish State (2011).Register
Previous Events in Our Series on the Iran War
Presented on March 26, 2026
The Iran War: The View from the United States
Ambassador Dennis Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process during both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations
The Iran War: The View from the Arab World
Karim Haggag, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Joseph Bahout, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut
Presented on March 10, 2026
The Iran War: The View from Israel
Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States & Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University
The Iran War: An Urgent Update
Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Iran Program
Ron Hassner, Professor of International Conflict and Religion at UC Berkeley
Presented on March 5, 2026Support the Center
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