Dalia Dassa Kaye

Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative for Regional Security Architectures
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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. She is also a 2026-27 Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dalia is an internationally recognized expert on geopolitics and Middle East policy. During her fifteen years at the RAND Corporation, Dalia served as a senior political scientist and the director of the Center of Middle East Public Policy. 

She has received numerous awards and fellowships, with previous positions at an array of research and public policy institutions, including as a Fulbright Schuman visiting scholar at Lund University, a research fellow at the Wilson Center, an advisor at the Foreign Ministry of The Netherlands, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. 

Dalia 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 (Stanford University Press, 2026). 

She holds her BA, MA, and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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