BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute with support from the Middle East Studie s Program (MESP) presents a webinar event with \;Mehrzad Boroujerdi\, vice provost and dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. This webinar will be moder ated by \;Yael Zeira\, director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program and associate professor of political science.The U.S.–Israeli war against Iran constitutes the most consequential conflict in the Middle East in nea rly a quarter century. Its political\, economic and military reverberation s are already reshaping regional dynamics and will likely persist for year s. \;This presentation examines the war’s immediate and long-term impa cts\, focusing on shifts in regional power balances\, implications for glo bal energy security and the evolving international order. It also assesses the war’s broader geopolitical consequences\, including its potential to redefine strategic alignments beyond the Middle East.Mehrzad Boroujerdi&nb sp\;is vice provost and dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Educa tion at Missouri University of Science and Technology. \;Previously he was professor of government and international affairs and director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech\, professor o f political science at Syracuse University\, and president of the \;As sociation for Iranian Studies.He is the author of Iranian Intellectuals an d the West: Tormented Triumph of Nativism \;(Syracuse\, 1996)\; co-aut hor\, with \;Kourosh Rahimkhani of Post-revolutionary Iran: A Politica l Handbook \;(Syracuse\, 2018)\; and editor of \;Mirror for the Mu slim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft \;(Syracuse\, 2013).Borouj erdi earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston Universit y\, a master’s degree in political science from Northeastern University an d a Ph.D. in international relations from The American University (Washing ton\, D.C.). He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University\, a R ockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin\, a visi ting scholar at UCLA\, and a non-resident scholar at the \;Middle East Institute \;(Washington\, D.C.). \;He is frequently consulted by both government entities and such national and international media outlets as Al Jazeera\, Associated Press\, Economist\, Guardian\, LA Times\, NPR\ , New York Times\, Reuters\, Spiegel\, Wall Street Journal\, and Washingto n Post. Yael Zeira \;is associate professor of political science and d irector of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the Maxwell School of Cit izenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She also serves as co- director of the International and Intrastate Conflict cluster in the Progr am for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). Zeira’s research examines political conflict and violence\, ethnic politic s\, and processes of ethnicization in the Middle East\, with a particular focus on Israel/Palestine and Syria. Her first book\, The Revolution Withi n: State Institutions and Unarmed Resistance in Palestine \;(Cambridge University Press\, 2019)\, \;investigates how and why individuals eng age in risky unarmed resistance against repressive rule drawing on multime thod field research in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. \;Zeria i s currently working on a second book project on the ethnicization and de-e thnicization of civil conflict in Syria\, Yemen\, Iraq and Ukraine. This r esearch is supported by a two-year Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ha rry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Zeira’s articles have been published in C omparative Political Studies\, the Journal of Conflict Resolution\, the Jo urnal of Peace Research\, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of S ciences. She holds a Ph.D. in politics from New York University and a B.A. in political science and international studies from Yale University.  \;Speaker opinions and statements are their own and do not imply endorseme nt by the MESP\, Syracuse University or its constituent schools and colleg es. DTEND:20260325T204500Z DTSTAMP:20260510T111829Z DTSTART:20260325T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Webinar | War With Iran: Outcomes and Implications UID:RFCALITEM639139943092166132 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute with support from th e Middle East Studies Program (MESP) presents a webinar event with \;M ehrzad Boroujerdi\, vice provost and dean of the College of Arts\, Science s\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. This w ebinar will be moderated by \;Yael Zeira\, director of the Middle East ern Studies Program and associate professor of political science.

Th e U.S.–Israeli war against Iran constitutes the most consequential conflic t in the Middle East in nearly a quarter century. Its political\, economic and military reverberations are already reshaping regional dynamics and w ill likely persist for years. \;This presentation examines the war’s i mmediate and long-term impacts\, focusing on shifts in regional power bala nces\, implications for global energy security and the evolving internatio nal order. It also assesses the war’s broader geopolitical consequences\, including its potential to redefine strategic alignments beyond the Middle East.

Mehrzad Boroujerdi \;is vice provost and dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri Univer sity of Science and Technology. \;Previously he was professor of gover nment and international affairs and director of the School of Public and I nternational Affairs at Virginia Tech\, professor of political science at Syracuse University\, and president of the \;Association for Iranian S tudies.

He is the author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West: Tormented Triumph of Nativism \;(Syracuse\, 1996)\; co-author\, w ith \;Kourosh Rahimkhani of Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political H andbook \;(Syracuse\, 2018)\; and editor of \;Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft \;(Syracuse\, 2013).

Boroujerdi earned a bachel or’s degree in political science from Boston University\, a master’s degre e in political science from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. in interna tional relations from The American University (Washington\, D.C.). He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University\, a Rockefeller Foundatio n Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin\, a visiting scholar at UCLA \, and a non-resident scholar at the \;Middle East Institute \;(Wa shington\, D.C.). \;

He is frequently consulted by both governme nt entities and such national and international media outlets as Al Jazeer a\, Associated Press\, Economist\, Guardian\, LA Times\, NPR\, New York Times\, Reuters\, Spiegel\, Wall Street Journ al\, and Washington Post.

Yael Zeira  \;is associate professor of political science and director of the Mid dle Eastern Studies Program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Publi c Affairs at Syracuse University. She also serves as co-director of the In ternational and Intrastate Conflict cluster in the Program for the Advance ment of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). Zeira’s research e xamines political conflict and violence\, ethnic politics\, and processes of ethnicization in the Middle East\, with a particular focus on Israel/Pa lestine and Syria. Her first book\, The Revolution Within: State Insti tutions and Unarmed Resistance in Palestine \;(Cambridge Universi ty Press\, 2019)\, \;investigates how and why individuals engage in ri sky unarmed resistance against repressive rule drawing on multimethod fiel d research in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. \;

Zeria is currently working on a second book project on the ethnicization and de-eth nicization of civil conflict in Syria\, Yemen\, Iraq and Ukraine. This res earch is supported by a two-year Distinguished Scholar Award from the Harr y Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Zeira’s articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies\, the Journal of Conflict Resoluti on\, the Journal of Peace Research\, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in politics f rom New York University and a B.A. in political science and international studies from Yale University. \;

Speaker opinions and statement s are their own and do not imply endorsement by the MESP\, Syracuse Univer sity or its constituent schools and colleges.

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