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Conference: “Israel, the United States, Iran, and the New Strategic Equation in the Middle East”

June 19, 2015
On June 24, 2015, the Pocitos Campus hosted the lecture “Israel, the United States, Iran, and the New Strategic Equation in the Middle East,” presented by Dr. Alberto Spektorowski, professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at Tel Aviv University. This is the first lecture in a series that also includes “Elections in Israel in an Unstable Political System. What is the future for Netanyahu’s new government?”, “Anti-Semitism yesterday, anti-Semitism today. Similarities and differences,” and “Europe between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.”
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The speaker examined whether the Barack Obama administration has shifted its strategic interests in the Middle East. The event was organized by the Department of Jewish Studies.

Spektorowski holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana (United States). He served as a political advisor to former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, with whom he participated alongside Palestinian officials in the Camp David peace talks in 2000.

He is the author of the books *The Origins of Argentina’s Revolution of the Right* ( University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), *The Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and National Welfare* ( Routledge Press, 2013), and *Nationalizing Islam* ( forthcoming, State University of New York Press). He is a visiting professor at Universidad ORT Uruguay.