842 Chestnut Rd
East Lansing, MI 48823
USA
Two Worlds Collide: the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Professor Alan Dowty, University of Notre Dame
Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He has published seven books and over 130 articles on the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy; among the books are The Limits of American Isolation, Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973, The Jewish State: A Century Later, and Israel/Palestine, now in its third edition. He has delivered over 500 public lectures in 20 countries. He will speak about his forthcoming book which analyzes the historic forces that brought the Arab-Israeli conflict into existence and attempts to answer the question of its inevitability, given the positions and stances of the two sides.
Co-sponsored by James Madison College, the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of History, Peace and Justice Studies, and the Asian Studies Center.