SIPA REGN U4690y SEMINAR ON PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI SECURITY DILEMMAS Tuesday 11 AM -12:50 PM - Spring 2010 Professor Naomi Weinberger E-mail: njw9@columbia.edu Course Description Competing Palestinian and Israeli national aspirations have generated security dilemmas for each, with broad regional repercussions. The principle of partition--which failed to heal the conflicts of the Palestine mandate era--still dominates the discourse on conflict resolution, but domestic and regional opponents stymie its implementation. This course examines the evolution of Palestinian resistance, Israeli foreign policy debates, Egypt’s early leadership in war and peacemaking, Iran’s rising influence, and intermittent mediatory efforts by the US and other third parties. We will consider whether and how the international community can address the absence of human security in the West Bank and Gaza and ongoing Israeli security dilemmas by facilitating realization of a two-state solution.