Dalia Dassa Kaye

Biography

Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. From 2008 to 2009, she served as associate director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. Before joining RAND, Kaye served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Dutch Foreign Ministry in the policy planning division, specializing in transatlantic relations and Middle East policy. She taught at the University of Amsterdam and was a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael). Kaye served on the faculty at The George Washington University as an assistant professor of political science and international affairs from 1998 to 2003. Kaye is also the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Brookings Institution research fellowship, a junior scholar award from the Smith Richardson Foundation, and The John W. Gardner Fellowship for Public Service. Kaye 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 Corporation, 2007) and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Columbia University Press, 2001). She is also a coauthor of several recent RAND monographs, including The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War (2010). Kaye is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.