Telephone: 03-5318958
email: cohenst@mail.biu.ac.il

Prof. Stuart Cohen (Ph.D. Oxford University) is the Dean of Students and a Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University in addition to being a Senior Research Associate at the BESA Center. He has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cape Town.

Specialization:

The changing relations between Israeli society and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), IDF force-structure, manpower policies and military strategy. Also: Jewish political tradition and the diplomatic history of the Middle East.

Publications:

The Jewish Polity: Jewish Political Organization from Biblical Times to the Present (Indiana U.P., 1984, with D. Elazar); The Three Crowns: The Structure of Jewish Communal Discourse in the Early Rabbinic Age (Cambridge U.P., 1990); The Scroll or the Sword? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel (London: Harwood Academic Press: 1997); and Editor of Democratic Societies and Their Armed Forces: Israel in Comparative Context (BESA Studies in International Security; London: Frank Cass, 2000).

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