Dalia Dassa Kaye

Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and director of its Initiative on Regional Security Architectures. Kaye is an internationally recognized expert on geopolitics and Middle East policy. During her fifteen years at the RAND Corporation, Kaye served as a senior political scientist and the director of the Center of Middle East Public Policy.

She has held numerous fellowships and research positions at an array of public policy institutions, including as a Fulbright Schuman visiting scholar at Lund University, a fellow at the Wilson Center, a Council on Foreign Relations 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 research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill.

She is a frequent public speaker and contributor to leading media outlets, including BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Economist. She is the author of dozens of articles and policy reports as well as several books, including most recently "Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy." Kaye holds her BA, MA, and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.