The Iran War: A Regional and Global Strategic Appraisal

Recorded on April 6, 2026. 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 Event: 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? One of Israel's leading academic national security experts discusses these and other key issues raised by the ongoing war. About the Speakers: 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). Professor Steven E. Zipperstein (moderator) is the Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He teaches in the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He is a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University Law School and a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He serves as a Distinguished Senior Scholar at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and as a Senior Fellow at The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation in the Netherlands. Zipperstein is the author of three peer-reviewed books, most recently The Legal Case for Palestine: A Critical Assessment Sign Up for the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center's Mailing List: https://bit.ly/UCLANazarianCenter_Mai... More UCLA Israel Studies Events: https://www.international.ucla.edu/is... UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Website: https://www.international.ucla.edu/is... Prof. Zipperstein's Intro @ 00:00:00 Dr. Schueftan's Lecture @ 00:05:02 Q&A @ 00:33:37 DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.