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Dalia Dassa Kaye

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Associate Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy and Political Scientist

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Education

Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. in political science, University of California, Berkeley

Biography

Dalia Dassa Kaye is the associate director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP) at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California and a faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. At RAND her research has addressed a range of Middle East security issues, including regional alliance relationships, the regional effects of the Iraq war, the Iranian challenge, regional security architecture, U.S. diplomatic approaches to the region, and regional reform in the Arab world. Before joining RAND in 2005, Dalia taught at the University of Amsterdam and was an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University. She has received a variety of awards and fellowships, including from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution and the Smith Richardson Foundation. She has published widely on Middle East security issues and is the author of Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia (RAND MG-592-NSRD 2007) and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Columbia University Press, 2001). She is also the lead author of a recent RAND monograph, More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World (RAND MG772-RC 2008). She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Research Focus

U.S. Middle East policy; Middle East regional security; Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process; Track two diplomacy

RAND Research Areas

National Security

Selected Publications

Dalia Dassa Kaye, Frederic Wehrey, Audra K. Grant, Dale Stahl, More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World, RAND, 2008

Dalia Dassa Kaye and Frederic Wehrey, "A Nuclear Iran: The Reactions of Neighbours", Survival, 2007

Dalia Dassa Kaye, Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia, RAND, 2007

Dalia Dassa Kaye, "Time for Arms Talks? Iran, Israel, and Middle East Arms Control", Arms Control Today, 2004

Dalia Dassa Kaye, "Bound to Cooperate? Transatlantic Policy in the Middle East", The Washington Quarterly, 2003

Dalia Dassa Kaye, "Political Leadership, Framing and Security Policy: The Israeli Decision to Withdraw from Southern Lebanon", Political Science Quarterly, 2002

Dalia Dassa Kaye, Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, Columbia University Press, 2001

Dalia Dassa Kaye, "Track Two Diplomacy and Regional Security in the Middle East", International Negotiation, 2001

Research Focus

Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process, Middle East policy and security issues

Previous Positions

Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Foreign Policy Studies Fellow, Brookings Institution; Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University; Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

Selected Publications

Rethinking Track Two Diplomacy: The Middle East and South Asia, Clingendael Diplo-macy Papers No. 3, 2005

"Time for Arms Talks? Iran, Israel, and Middle East Arms Control," Arms Control Today, 2004

"Bound to Cooperate? Transatlantic Policy in the Middle East," The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2003-04

Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, Colum-bia University Press, 2001

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: United Press International

To arrange an interview:

Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.

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