Telephone: 03-5318043
email: gerald@vms.huji.ac.il

Prof. Gerald Steinberg (Ph.D. Cornell University) is a Senior Research Associate at the BESA Center and Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has been a Research Fellow at MIT, the US Institute for Peace, and participates in the activities of Pugwash and in "track two" activities related to the Middle East arms control and regional security. He represents Israel in the Mediterranean seminars of the OSCE, is a member of the academic advisory board of the Fischer Institute of Aeronautics and Space Policy, and the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, and has lectured in Australia, Singapore, India, Europe, and the US.

Specialization:

He specializes in Middle East strategy and diplomacy, arms control, military space technology, and the US-Israeli strategic relationship.

Publications:

Recent publications include Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Developments in the Middle East: 1998/9, BESA Security and Policy Series; "The Peace Process in the 1999 Israeli Elections", Israel Affairs, Winter 2000; "Parameters of Stable Deterrence in a Proliferated Middle East: Lessons from the 1991 Gulf War", The NonProliferation Review, 7:3, Fall-Winter 2000; "The Security Impact of Commercial Observation Satellites in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf", in Commercial Observation Satellites: At the Leading Edge of Global Transparency, ASPRS and RAND, 2001; and Israel and the U.S.: Can the Special Relationship Survive in the New Strategic Environment", in The U.S. and Its Allies in a Changing World (London: Frank Cass, 2001).

Prof. Steinberg has many of his articles available at his Internet site: http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~steing/index.shtml

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