Webinar | War With Iran: Outcomes and Implications

The Moynihan Institute with support from the Middle East Studies 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 moderated 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 nearly a quarter century. Its political, economic and military reverberations are already reshaping regional dynamics and will likely persist for years. This presentation examines the war’s immediate and long-term impacts, focusing on shifts in regional power balances, implications for global 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 is vice provost and dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education 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 of political science at Syracuse University, and president of the Association for Iranian Studies.

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

Boroujerdi earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University, a master’s degree in political science from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. in international relations from The American University (Washington, D.C.). He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting 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 Washington Post.

Yael Zeira is associate professor of political science and director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She also serves as co-director of the International and Intrastate Conflict cluster in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). Zeira’s research examines political conflict and violence, ethnic politics, and processes of ethnicization in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Israel/Palestine and Syria. Her first book, The Revolution Within: State Institutions and Unarmed Resistance in Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2019), investigates how and why individuals engage in risky unarmed resistance against repressive rule drawing on multimethod field research in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 

Zeria is currently working on a second book project on the ethnicization and de-ethnicization of civil conflict in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Ukraine. This research is supported by a two-year Distinguished Scholar Award from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Zeira’s articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 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 endorsement by the MESP, Syracuse University or its constituent schools and colleges.