Skip to main content
close
Font size options
Increase or decrease the font size for this website by clicking on the 'A's.
Contrast options
Choose a color combination to give the most comfortable contrast.
Image for event: EPL & MENA Present:  Author Ian Lustick

Registration now closed

EPL & MENA Present: Author Ian Lustick

Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

2020-02-28 16:00:00 2020-02-28 17:30:00 America/Chicago EPL & MENA Present: Author Ian Lustick Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University’s Middle East and North Africa program (MENA) present talks on the culture, politics, religion, and society of the Middle East and North Africa. Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Friday, February 28
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Add to Calendar 2020-02-28 16:00:00 2020-02-28 17:30:00 America/Chicago EPL & MENA Present: Author Ian Lustick Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University’s Middle East and North Africa program (MENA) present talks on the culture, politics, religion, and society of the Middle East and North Africa. Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Main Library

Community Meeting Room (107)

Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University’s Middle East and North Africa program (MENA) present talks on the culture, politics, religion, and society of the Middle East and North Africa.

Please join the Evanston Public Library and Northwestern's Middle East and North African Studies Program for this presentation by political scientist Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania about his new book Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality.

About the book:

Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings 50 years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute to bear on this question and offers a provocative explanation of why continued attempts to divide the land will have no more success than would negotiations to establish a one-state solution.

Basing his argument on the decisiveness of unanticipated consequences, Lustick shows how the combination of Zionism's partially successful Iron Wall strategy for dealing with Arabs, an Israeli political culture saturated with what the author calls "Holocaustia," and the Israel lobby's dominant influence on American policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict scuttled efforts to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Yet, he demonstrates, it has also unintentionally set the stage for new struggles and "better problems" for both Israel and the Palestinians. Drawing on the history of scientific ideas that once seemed certain but were ultimately discarded, Lustick encourages shifting attention from two-state blueprints that provide no map for realistic action to the democratizing competition that arises when different subgroups, forced to be part of the same polity, redefine their interests and form new alliances to pursue them.

Paradigm Lost argues that negotiations for a two-state solution between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River are doomed and counterproductive. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can enjoy the democracy they deserve but only after decades of struggle amid the unintended but powerful consequences of today's one-state reality.

About Ian Lustick:

Ian Lustick holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Middle Eastern politics, comparative politics, and computer modeling. He is a recipient of awards from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Sciences Research Council. Before coming to Penn he taught for 15 years at Dartmouth College and worked for one year in the Department of State. His present research focuses on the implications of the disappearance of the option of a negotiated “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and techniques of counterfactual forecasting. He is a past president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Israel Studies, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Among his books are Arabs in the Jewish State (1980), For the Land and the Lord (1988, 1994), Unsettled States, Disputed Lands (1993), Trapped in the War on Terror (2006), and Paradigm Lost (2019).

Praise for Paradigm Lost:

"Ian Lustick has written a richly informed and persuasive account of how the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians has become the seemingly dead-end tragedy it is today. This book provides an especially insightful analysis of why Israeli attitudes toward this issue evolved as they did. It is essential reading for anyone concerned about this conflict and hungry for new ways to think about it."—Paul R. Pillar, former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia

"This important new book by one of the country's most thoughtful, insightful, and engaged students of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians is at once both provocative and persuasive. The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the path that brought Israel to the situation it faces today—and of what is likely to come next. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, Paradigm Lost is a must-read for all who are interested in, and care about, Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."—Mark Tessler, University of Michigan

"Paradigm Lost is an important addition to our understanding of the failure of the Two States Solution. It unpacks how the Iron Wall mentality came to dominate Israeli politics and hindered any serious attempt to reach peace with the Palestinians. It is a must read for every Israeli and American interested in going beyond the present impasse."—Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts

Special thanks to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago for their partnership on this event.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Authors & Book Discussions |

TAGS: | |

Main Library

EPLInfo@cityofevanston.org
Phone: (847)448-8600
Branch manager
Yolande Wilburn, Executive Director

Hours
Mon, Mar 25 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Mar 26 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Mar 27 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Mar 28 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Mar 29 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Mar 30 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Mar 31 12:00PM to 6:00PM

About the branch

 

The City of Evanston is committed to promoting a Citywide culture of accessibility and inclusivity. To request an accommodation for a program, service, or activity, please call 847-866-2919 to make an ADA service request or fill out a request form online.

Upcoming events

Thu, Mar 28, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.
Registration is now closed

Thu, Mar 28, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)
Registration is now closed

Thu, Mar 28, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 2 (Virtual)

Thu, Mar 28, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Thu, Mar 28, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.
Registration is now closed

Thu, Mar 28, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Fri, Mar 29, All day
Robert Crown Branch Library

Fri, Mar 29, All day
Main Library

Fri, Mar 29, All day
Main Library - Children's Room

Canceled
Fri, Mar 29, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library

Fri, Mar 29, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Sat, Mar 30, 9:30am - 10:00am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Sat, Mar 30, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Kids 1 (Virtual)

Sat, Mar 30, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Loft (Teen Space)

Mon, Apr 01, All day
Main Library

Mon, Apr 01, 10:15am - 10:35am
Main Library - Children's Room

Canceled
Mon, Apr 01, 10:30am - 11:30am
Robert Crown Branch Library

Mon, Apr 01, 11:00am - 11:40am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Mon, Apr 01, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Mon, Apr 01, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)
Registration is now closed

Mon, Apr 01, 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 2 (Virtual)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Tue, Apr 02, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Tue, Apr 02, 10:30am - 11:00am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Tue, Apr 02, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library - Falcon Room (303)

Tue, Apr 02, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Canceled
Tue, Apr 02, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library

Tue, Apr 02, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Wed, Apr 03, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Main Library - Small Meeting Room (108)

Wed, Apr 03, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room,Reading Garden

Wed, Apr 03, 6:15pm - 7:15pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room
This event is full

Wed, Apr 03, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Main Library

Wed, Apr 03, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)

Thu, Apr 04, 10:15am - 10:45am
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Thu, Apr 04, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Thu, Apr 04, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 2 (Virtual)

Thu, Apr 04, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Fri, Apr 05, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Sat, Apr 06, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library

Sat, Apr 06, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Fleetwood Jourdain 1655 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60201

Mon, Apr 08, All day
Main Library

Mon, Apr 08, 10:15am - 10:35am
Main Library

Mon, Apr 08, 10:30am - 11:30am
Robert Crown Branch Library

Mon, Apr 08, 11:00am - 11:40am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Mon, Apr 08, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Mon, Apr 08, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library
This event is full

Mon, Apr 08, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Main Library - Art Garden

Mon, Apr 08, 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Mon, Apr 08, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library

Mon, Apr 08, 6:45pm - 8:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Mon, Apr 08, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Tue, Apr 09, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Tue, Apr 09, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Robert Crown Community Center - Multipurpose Room B/C

Tue, Apr 09, 10:30am - 11:00am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Tue, Apr 09, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Library Board Room (406),Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)

Tue, Apr 09, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Main Library - Falcon Room (303)

Tue, Apr 09, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Wed, Apr 10, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)

Wed, Apr 10, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Thu, Apr 11, 10:15am - 10:45am
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Thu, Apr 11, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Thu, Apr 11, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Robert Crown Community Ctr, 1801 Main St., Evanston, IL 60202 - Rms B-C (Main Flr to the left)

Thu, Apr 11, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 2 (Virtual)

Thu, Apr 11, 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Thu, Apr 11, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Thu, Apr 11, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Thu, Apr 11, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
New venue Main Library - Small Meeting Room (108)

Thu, Apr 11, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Rescheduled
Thu, Apr 11, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
New date Thursday, May 09, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library

Thu, Apr 11, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Thu, Apr 11, 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Main Library - Children's Room

Fri, Apr 12, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Sat, Apr 13, All day
McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St, Evanston, IL 60201

Sat, Apr 13, 9:30am - 10:00am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Sat, Apr 13, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Main Library - Lobby

Sat, Apr 13, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Multipurpose Room B/C

Sat, Apr 13, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Sat, Apr 13, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Sat, Apr 13, 12:00pm - 3:30pm
Main Library - Falcon Room (303)
This event is full

Sat, Apr 13, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Sun, Apr 14, All day
McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St, Evanston, IL 60201

Sun, Apr 14, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Sun, Apr 14, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Mon, Apr 15, All day
McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St, Evanston, IL 60201

Mon, Apr 15, All day
Main Library

Mon, Apr 15, 10:15am - 10:35am
Main Library

Mon, Apr 15, 10:30am - 11:30am
Robert Crown Branch Library

Mon, Apr 15, 11:00am - 11:40am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Mon, Apr 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Mon, Apr 15, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
New venue Main Library - Small Meeting Room (108)

Mon, Apr 15, 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Mon, Apr 15, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library

Tue, Apr 16, All day
McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St, Evanston, IL 60201

Tue, Apr 16, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Tue, Apr 16, 10:30am - 11:00am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Tue, Apr 16, 11:00am - 12:15pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Tue, Apr 16, 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Wed, Apr 17, All day
McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St, Evanston, IL 60201

Wed, Apr 17, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library - Small Meeting Room (108)

Wed, Apr 17, 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Wed, Apr 17, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Wed, Apr 17, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual),Library Board Room (406)

Wed, Apr 17, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 1 (Virtual)
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Wed, Apr 17, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107),Zoom Main 2 (Virtual)

Wed, Apr 17, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Temperance Beer Co.

Thu, Apr 18, All day
McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St, Evanston, IL 60201

Thu, Apr 18, 10:15am - 10:45am
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Canceled
Thu, Apr 18, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Robert Crown Community Center - Room A

Thu, Apr 18, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Thu, Apr 18, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Thu, Apr 18, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 2 (Virtual)

Thu, Apr 18, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Thu, Apr 18, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Thu, Apr 18, 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Thu, Apr 18, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
The Loft (Teen Space)

Fri, Apr 19, All day
McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St, Evanston, IL 60201

Fri, Apr 19, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Fri, Apr 19, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Small Meeting Room (108)

Fri, Apr 19, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Fri, Apr 19, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Sun, Apr 21, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Main Library - Art Garden

Sun, Apr 21, 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Sun, Apr 21, 2:00pm - 3:45pm
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Mon, Apr 22, All day
Main Library

Mon, Apr 22, 10:15am - 10:35am
Main Library

Mon, Apr 22, 10:30am - 11:30am
Robert Crown Branch Library

Mon, Apr 22, 11:00am - 11:40am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Mon, Apr 22, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Tue, Apr 23, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Tue, Apr 23, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Robert Crown Community Center - Multipurpose Room B/C

Tue, Apr 23, 10:30am - 11:00am
Main Library - Barbara Friedberg Storytelling Room (104)

Tue, Apr 23, 3:00pm - 7:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107),Small Meeting Room (108)

Tue, Apr 23, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Tue, Apr 23, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Main Library

Tue, Apr 23, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Main Library - Zoom Main 2 (Virtual)

Wed, Apr 24, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library - Falcon Room (303)

Thu, Apr 25, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Thu, Apr 25, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom - Register to receive an email with a Zoom link and instructions on how to get into this class.

Canceled
Thu, Apr 25, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library

Thu, Apr 25, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room

Rescheduled
Thu, Apr 25, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
New date Tuesday, April 30, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Main Library

Fri, Apr 26, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Main Library - Community Meeting Room (107)

Sat, Apr 27, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Loft (Teen Space)

Sat, Apr 27, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Robert Crown Branch Library - Robert Crown Multipurpose Room