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A lecture by Mohsen Milani, with discussant Amb. Christopher Hill, framing the escalating conflict with ISIS/ISIL within the Iranian perspective and its regional geopolitical rivalry with Saudi Arabia. Hosted by the Josef Korbel School of International Studies' Center for Middle East Studies on November 11, 2014.

Mohsen Milani is the Executive Director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida. He has served as a research fellow at Harvard, Oxford, and Foscari University (Italy).

His book "The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic" (Second Edition) has been used as required reading in universities in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Iran. He is currently at work on a book about Iranian foreign policy.

Ambassador Christopher Hill is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Former US Ambassador to Iraq, he is a columnist for Project Syndicate and the author of the memoir "Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy."

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