04/22/2026
🎤 Join the Baker Institute for a lecture by Ibrahim Fraihat, one of our fellows, on Monday, April 27th in the Sill Boardroom, discussing the current U.S.-Iran war.
This talk analyzes the current U.S.–Iran war as a critical inflection point for global peace and security, arguing that it extends far beyond a regional confrontation to reveal a deeper crisis in international order. It examines how escalating military exchanges, disruptions to strategic chokepoints, and intensifying great-power competition are generating cascading global effects—from energy and economic instability to the erosion of legal and normative constraints on the use of force. The lecture advances three core claims: that the conflict signals a shift from managed rivalry to open-ended instability; that it accelerates the fragmentation and regionalization of global security governance; and that it exposes the limits of military-centric approaches to fundamentally political disputes. Ultimately, it asks whether the current trajectory represents a contained crisis or the consolidation of a more volatile global system in which localized wars increasingly carry systemic consequences.
Ibrahim Fraihat is a professor of international conflict resolution at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the founding president of the Arab Society for Conflict Studies, and a non-resident fellow at the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College. He previously served as a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution and taught conflict resolution at Georgetown University.
