Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:30:42 -0700 From: Jonathan Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PSR-LA Global Security Seminar | April 25 | Mehran Kamrava on Iran
The Global Security Seminar is pleased to announce its April Seminar on FACTIONAL STRUGGLES IN IRAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY. Where: UCLA Faculty Center When: Wednesday, APRIL 25, 2007 Time: 6:30 PM You are invited to a DINNER MEETING of THE GLOBAL SECURITY SEMINAR featuring a presentation by PROFESSOR MEHRAN KAMRAVA on "NATIONAL SECURITY DEBATES IN IRAN: FACTIONALISM AND LOST OPPORTUNITIES." SEMINAR LOCATION AND RESERVATIONS: The seminar location is the UCLA Faculty Center. Dinner will be served at a cost of $25 WITHOUT DESSERT per person OR $30 WITH DESSERT. THE DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS 11:00 AM, APRIL 23, 2006. PLEASE BRING YOUR CHECK PAYABLE TO "MICHAEL INTRILIGATOR, your UCLA host. Please submit your reservation and your choice of dessert/no dessert by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Obtain permit for Parking Structure 2, near the Faculty Center, at the kiosk at Hilgard and Westholme, noting that you are attending the Global Security Seminar at the Faculty Center. Parking fee is $8.) SEMINAR TOPIC: "NATIONAL SECURITY DEBATES IN IRAN: FACTIONALISM AND LOST OPPORTUNITIES." There are at least three factions currently vying for greater power and influence in Iran, and each faction has its own agendas and preferences in both the domestic and the national security arenas. The factions include "conservatives," "reformers," and "radicals," with the first two groups having entered into a coalition in the summer of 2005 in an unsuccessful effort to defeat the radicals in the presidential elections. Despite their significant differences, so far the coalition has held together and the two groups are advocating similar positions that differ significantly from those of the radicals in specific relation to Iran's national security policy. The radicals and the conservative-reformist alliance differ a great deal on the issues such as Iran's regional policies and its relations with its neighbors, especially Iraq, Iran's relations with the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas, Iran-US relations, and the Iranian nuclear program. Transposed on to a political system that readily lends itself to institutional balkanization and lack of cohesion on the factional disputes over policy translate into mixed signals coming out of Tehran, lack of diplomatic initiative, the prevalence of populist antics and symbolic antics and symbolic acts designed to force the hands of rivals resulting in lost opportunities. THE SPEAKER: MEHRAN KAMRAVA, Mehran Kamrava is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Northridge. His specialties include comparative politics, political development, and Middle Eastern politics. He is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War, University of California Press, 2005, and The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity, (editor) University of California Press, 2006. He has just completed a book manuscript on intellectual discourses in post-Khomeini Iran, and he is also co-editing a two-volume encyclopedia entitled Iran Today: Life in the Islamic Republic. SEMINAR SPONSORS THE GLOBAL SECURITY SEMINAR organizes monthly meetings presenting the views of experts on current global security issues. It is sponsored by the Los Angeles offices of the Center for Defense Information and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The Seminar coordinators are: Philip Coyle (Los Angeles Director of the Center for Defense Information and former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration). Michael Intriligator (Professor of Economics, Political Science and Policy Studies, UCLA and former Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations). Jonathan Parfrey (Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles). Bennett Ramberg (Vice Chairman of the Center for Government and Public Policy Analysis). Dr. Ramberg serves as the Seminar Coordinator. Seminar speakers have included: Hon. Philip Coyle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Dr. Martha Krebs, Former Assistant Secretary of Energy. Cuba Biotechnology or Bioweapons? A First Hand Trip Report, November 2002. Brian Jenkins, Senior Advisor to the President of the Rand Corp. Countering Al Qaeda: Elements of Strategy, December 2002. Mike Shuster, Diplomatic Correspondent for National Public Radio. Iraq and North Korea: First Test of the Bush Administrations National Security Policy, January 2003. Tom Plate, International Syndicated Columnist based at UCLA. Global Security from the Perspective of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Ideas and Impressions, February 2003. S. David Freeman, Chairman of the State of Californias Consumer Power and Conservation Authority. Energy and Security America's Energy Policy in the Aftermath with War With Iraq. March 2003. Gregory Treverton, Senior Research Staff the Rand Corp. Organizing the Intelligence of Homeland Security, April 2003. Jean Rosenfeld, Senior Research Associate, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion. The Religion Factor in an Apocalyptic Age Implications for the Middle East, May 2003. Richard Baum, Professor of Political Science and Chinese Studies, UCLA. Chinese Security in the Post 9/11 World and Implications for the United States, June 2003. Jonathan Parfrey, Director, Los Angeles Physicians for Social Responsibility, The State of the American Peace Movement, July 2003. Zvi Vapni, Deputy Consul General in the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles, The Future of the Arab-Israeli Road Map to Peace, September 2003. Raju Thomas, Professor of Political Science, Marquette University, The Most Dangerous Place in the World Indo-Pakistani Relations and the Risk of Nuclear War, October 2003. David Rapoport, Professor of Political Science, UCLA, The Four Waves of Modern Revolutionary Terror A Generational Analysis, November 2003. Michael Keane, Commentator and Author, Guerrilla Warfare An Historical Perspective on How It May Defeat the United States in Iraq, December 2003. Rachel Stohl, Senior Policy Analyst Center for Defense Information, Washington D.C., Child Combatants A Non Traditional Threat to U.S. Security, January 2004. Richard Hrair Dekmejian, Professor of Political Science at USC and International Business at the Marshall School, Challenges for Democratization in the Middle East, February 2004. Norman Levin, Senior Research Staff, the RAND Corp., U.S. Policy Toward North Korea Challenges and Prospects, March 2004. Wayne Glass, former foreign policy and national security staff member of the Departments of State, Defense and the U.S. Senate, National Security, Foreign Policy, and the Congress: How Things Work (or Dont), April 2004. Ramiro Cibrian, Diplomat, European Community, The Enlarged Europe and its Common Security and Defense Policy. Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Islam and the West; Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy, June 2004. Nake Kamrany, Professor of Economics, USC, The Current Dilemma of Afghanistan, July 2004. Jack Weiss, Los Angeles City Councilman, Local Homeland Security: The City of Los Angeles Confronts Counter-Terrorism Challenges, September 2004. Ian Lesser, Vice President of the Pacific Council on International Security, Foreign and Security Challenges Confronting the Next President, October 2004 Greg Mello, Co-Founder of the Los Alamos Study Group, Bushs Second Term--New Nuclear Weapons: Absurd and Dangerous, or a Management Necessity, November 2004. Pierre Larrieu, French Consul General, Franco-American Relations After the U.S. Presidential Elections, December 2004. Philip Coyle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense now with Center for Defense Information, Car Bombs, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Mini-Nukes, and Terrorism: Where is America Going on Homeland Security and National Defense? January 2005. Jeremy Azrael, the RAND Corp., Effects of Increasing Russian Authoritarianism on Russian-American Relations, February 2005. Paul Holtom, MD, Professor, University of Southern California Medical School, Sanctions, Embargos and War: The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Civilians, March 2005. Arnold C. Harberger, Professor of Economics, UCLA, Challenges of Economic Growth in Developing Countries, April 2005. Alison Renteln, Professor of Political Science, USC, Prosecuting Genocide Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Aggression: Assessing the Performance of the International Criminal Court, May, 2005. James McWilliams, Professor of Earth Sciences, UCLA & Member National Academy of Sciences Panel on Global Warming, Global Climate Change and the Prospects for Planetary Management, June 2005. Michael Intriligator, UCLA Professor of Economics, Political Science and Public Policy, Terrorist Use of WMD, July 2005. Aaron Glantz, International Journalist, Pacifica Radio, How America Lost Iraq, September, 2005. David Aaron, RAND Corporation, Promoting Democracy With Justice in a Fractured World: Is America Up to the Challenge, October, 2005. Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times national reporter, The 9/11 Hijackers: Who Were They and Why They Did It, November 2005. George Quester, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Justifying Preemption and Preventive War in the Post 9/11 Era: What History Can Teach Us, December 2005. David Goodstein, Vice Provost and Professor of Physics, Caltech, Is the World Running Out of Oil, January 2006. Sebastian Zacharia, former Director, Division of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Program, The United Nations: Address the Globes 21st Century Challenges, February 2006. Neil Joeck, Livermore Laboratory and former Bush Administration White House Counterproliferation Strategy Director, Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Trade: Implications for the Indo-US Agreement for Proliferation, March 2006. Bennett Ramberg, Center for Government and Public Policy Analysiss, Combating Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century, April 2005. Peter Katona, UCLA School of Medicine, Bird Flu--Global Pandemic or Manageable Risk, May 2006 Kent Harrington, former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency, Chinese Organized Crime: Redefining the Threat and Recognizing the Reality, June 2006. Col. Vito Imbascini,, Ph.D., MD, "The Iraqi War from the Perspective of a Frontline Physician" July 2006. Rani Ali-Ahmad, Craftsman Capital Advisors and Citigroup-Smith Barrney, The Future of Lebanon, September 2006. Robert Young Pelton, investigative reporter and author, Mercenaries and Private Contractors in the War on Terror, October 2006. Stephen Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations, Addressing the Terrorist Risk: What is Next for Port Security, November 2006. Alexander Sakharov, author and past research associate at the Soviet Institute for the USA and Canada, Russia: The Misplaced Key to a Stable World, December 2006. Ed OConnell, Rand Corp., What Went Wrong in Iraq, January 2007. Saree Makdisi, Middle East Commentator UCLA Professor of English, The Next Phase in the Israel-Palestine Conflict, February 2007. Reza Aslan, Author (No God But God, Random House), Terrorism and the Global Struggle Against Puritanism and Violence in the Muslim World," March 2007. 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