The United States and Iran—Is a Military Conflict Inevitable?
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| Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus |
Dr. Gary Sick served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. Dr. Sick has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, where he is Senior Research Scholar, adjunct professor of international affairs and former director of the Middle East Institute (2000-2003). He is the executive director of Gulf/2000, an international research project on political, economic and security developments in the Persian Gulf, being conducted at Columbia University with support from a number of major foundations. He is the author of two books on U.S.-Iranian relations and co-author of four books on the Persian Gulf published by the Gulf/2000 project and Press in New York. Dr. Sick is a member (emeritus) of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York and founding chairman of its Middle East and North Africa advisory committee.
