Lecture—The Israel-Iran 12-Day War
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The talk explains how Israel’s nuclear dominance strategy and Iran’s deterrence efforts turned a shadow conflict into the 12-day war.
Speaker: Or (Ori) Rabinowitz
Israel’s long-standing effort to preserve its regional nuclear monopoly has been shaping its confrontation with Iran and other regional nuclear proliferators for decades. By situating Israel’s counter-proliferation strategies and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear deterrence within a shared historical trajectory, this talk will explain how a persistent shadow conflict evolved into open confrontation, detailing the dynamics that laid the groundwork for the 12-day Israel–Iran war.
### About the speaker
Or (Ori) Rabinowitz, a Chevening scholar, is a tenured Senior Lecturer at the International Relations Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. As of September 2022, she is a Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s CISAC. Her research interests include nuclear proliferation, intelligence studies, and Israeli-American relations, and she holds a PhD in Department of War Studies from King’s College London, an MA in Security Studies, and an LLB in Law from Tel-Aviv University. She was awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including two personal research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation. In 2020, she was a member of the Young Academic Forum of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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