Efraim Inbar (Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies, Israel)
Current Professional Activities
Efraim Inbar is currently professor in the Department of Policital Studies at the Bar-Ilan University.
Previous Professional Activities
He was lecturer in the Departments of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv Universtity as well as visiting professor and research fellow at several universities and institutes.
Affiliations
He is the founding director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies and a member of numerous associations such as International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), American Political Science Association, Middle East Studies Association (U.S.A.), Association for Israel Studies (U.S.A) or Israeli Political Science Association. He is also referee for and member of the Editorial Board of the leading journals in the field.
Areas of Specialization
War and Strategy, National Security Problems in the Middle East, Israeli Politics
Educational Background
He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago in 1981. He has a B.A. in Political Science and English Literature from the Hebrew University and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He has gained NATO Manfred Worner Award, Award of Excellence by the Council for Commemmorating Israel’s Prime Ministers and Fellowship by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
Recent Publications
Books
ed., US-Israeli Relations in a New Era (London: Routledge, 2009) (co-edited with Eytan Gilboa).
Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War (London: Routledge, 2008).
ed. Radical Islam: The Challenge and Responses (London: Routledge, 2008) (co-edited with Hillel Frisch).
ed. Avraham Rotem, Dusting off the Castle: Rehabilitating the I.D.F. (A post mortem Hebrew collection of the articles written by Maj. Gen. Avraham Rotem) (Tel Aviv: Maarachot, 2007) (co-edited with Hagai Golan).
ed., Israel's Strategic Agenda (London: Routledge, 2007) (book version of special issue of Israel Affairs).
The Israeli-Turkish Entente (London: King’s College Mediterranean Program, 2001).
Articles
“The Status Quo with Syria is Best for Israel,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, 15 (September 2011).
“Israeli-Turkish Tensions and Their International Ramifications,” Orbis, 55 (Winter 2011).
“The Challenges of the Netanyahu Government,” Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (March 2010).
“The Decline of Labor,” Israel Affairs, 16 (January 2010).
“Israeli-Turkish Relations and Beyond,” Turkish Policy Quarterly, 8 (Fall 2009).
"Gaza, une evaluation intermediaire" Outre-Terre. Revue Francaise de Geopolitique, No. 22 (June 2009).
"The Rise and Demise of the Two-State Paradigm," Orbis (Spring 2009).
"Iranians Like the Bomb: Some Tastes are Dangerous," Contemporary Security Policy, 29 (December 2008).
