Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and Prof. Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Thursday, January 23, 20254:00 PM (Pacific Time)Webinar
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The long-awaited cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect Sunday, January 19, 2025, ending hostilities between the two sides for the first time in over a year. The cease-fire deal, brokered by Qatari and Egyptian negotiators and a surprisingly cooperative pair of Biden-Trump envoys, will unfold in several phases. Each phase will see the release of Israeli hostages from Gaza and the release of Palestinian prisoners, largely women and minors, from Israeli prisons. Palestinian will also be able to return to their cities and homes across Gaza, assess the damage and start anew. The first phase is scheduled for six weeks and negotiations for the subsequent phase are scheduled to begin partway through phase one. The cease fire deal has been greeted with enthusiasm by Palestinians and many Israelis and has drawn fierce criticism from far-right members of the Israeli government, threatening its survival. Given that both Benjamin Netanyahu’s and Hamas’ political futures hinge on continued strife, can the ceasefire deal survive? What can we expect? What will the next few weeks bring? What will it take to bring sustainable peace to the region?
Dalia Dassa Kaye is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and was a 2023-24 Fulbright Schuman scholar based at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Dalia joined the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California in 2005, where she was a senior political scientist and Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy from 2012 to 2020. She has held positions as a Wilson Center scholar, a CFR International Affairs Fellow at the Foreign Ministry of The Netherlands, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University, a Brookings Research Fellow, and as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dalia is an internationally recognized expert on global security and Middle East policy, with over twenty-five years of professional experience in research, policy analysis, and public policy leadership. She has received numerous research awards and is a frequent public speaker and contributor to leading media outlets. She is the author of two books, Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, as well as dozens of journal articles, op-eds, policy papers, and RAND studies. Her most recent articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, World Politics Review, Survival, and The Washington Quarterly. Dalia holds her BA, MA, and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dov Waxman is The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science at UCLA. Before joining UCLA, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, a Professor of Political Science, and the director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College, and a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University, the Hebrew University, Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing focus on the Israel-Palestine issue, contemporary antisemitism, Jewish politics, Israeli politics, Israel-Diaspora relations, U.S.-Israel relations, and U.S.-Middle East relations. He is the author four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011), Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016), and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (published by Oxford University Press in 2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Forward, The Atlantic, Time, Slate, Foreign Policy and many other places. He is frequently interviewed on television and radio and he hosts the Nazarian Center’s podcast, Israel in Depth.
Kal Raustiala holds the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School and is a Professor at the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. From 2012-2015 he was UCLA’s Associate Vice Provost for International Studies and Faculty Director of the International Education Office. Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property.
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Center for Middle East Development, International & Comparative Law Program (ICLP) at UCLA School of Law, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law