Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Developments in the Middle East: 1998-99
Gerald M. Steinberg  

Turkey and the Middle East
Amikam Nachmani
India and Israel
Evolving Strategic Partnership

P.R. Kumaraswamy
The Vulture and The Snake
Counter-Guerrilla Air Warfare:
The War in Southern Lebanon

Shmuel L. Gordon
Dual Use Aspects of Commercial High-Resolution Imaging Satellites
Gerald Steinberg
Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab States
Barry Rubin
Maps of Israeli Interests in Judea and Samaria
Determining the Extent of the Additional Withdrawals

Haim Gvirtzman
Towards A New Portrait of the Israeli Soldier
Stuart Cohen
The Risks of Palestinian Statehood
Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler
The Middle East Economies:
The Impact of Domestic and International Politics

Eliyahu Kanovsky
Making Oslo Work
Max Singer and Michael Eichenwald
Advanced Technology and Future War
Eliot A. Cohen and Zeev Bonen
Special Memorial Issue:
Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli National Security

Yitzhak Rabin and Efraim Inbar
Approaching the Finish Line:
The United States in Post-Oslo Peace Making

Aharon Kleiman

BESA Security and Policy Studies:
  • No. 1 A Taxonomy of Israel's Use of Force
    Stuart A. Cohen and Efraim Inbar May 1991
  • No. 2 Israeli Leadership and Public Attitudes Toward Federal Solutions for the Arab Israeli Conflict
    Gad Barzilai, Giora Goldberg and Efraim Inbar Aug. 1991
  • No. 3 Israel's Small War: The Military Response to the Intifada
    Efraim Inbar Dec. 1991
  • No. 4 Do Wars Have an Impact?: Israeli Public Opinion After the Gulf War
    Gad Barzilai and Efraim Inbar March 1992
  • No. 5 Israel and Arms Control
    Efraim Inbar Sept. 1992
  • No. 6 Israel's Changing Military Commitments, 1981-1991
    Stuart A. Cohen, Sept. 1992.
  • No. 7 Israel's Strategic Environment
    Efraim Inbar, Oct. 1992.
  • No. 8 The Forgotten Dimension: Economic Developments in Arab Countries and their Possible Impact on Peace Agreements
    Eliyahu Kanovsky, Dec. 1992.
  • No. 9 Israel's Deterrent Capability Revisited (Hebrew)
    Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler, Feb. 1993.
  • No. 10 Middle East Arms Control and Disarmament
    Gerald M. Steinberg, June 1993.
  • No. 11 Strategic Implications of the Second Gulf War (Hebrew)
    Aharon Levran, July 1993.
  • No. 12 Strategic Consequences of the Gulf War for Israel
    Efraim Inbar, Oct. 1993.
  • No. 13 The Hesder Yeshivot in Israel: A Church-State Military Arrangement
    Stuart A. Cohen, Nov. 1993.
  • No. 14 Israeli Responses to the Threat of Chemical Warfare
    Gerald M. Steinberg, Dec. 1993.
  • No. 15 Assessing the Mideast Peace Economic Dividend
    Eliyahu Kanovsky, April 1994.
  • No. 16 'Masqueraders' in the IDF, 1991-92: The Military Unit and the Public Debate
    Stuart A. Cohen, April 1994.
  • No. 17 Israel's Deterrence Strategy Revisited
    Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler, May 1994.
  • No. 18 Non-Proliferation: Time for Regional Approaches?
    Gerald M. Steinberg, September 1994.
  • No. 19 The New Middle East: Opportunities and Risks
    Barry Rubin, February 1995.
  • No. 20 Studying the Israel Defense Forces
    Stuart A. Cohen, May 1995.
  • No. 21 Chemical weapons in Egypt and Syria: Evolution, Capabilities, Control
    Danny Shoham, June 1995.
  • No. 22 Approaching the Finish Line: The United States in Post-Oslo Peace Making
    Aharon Kleiman, June 1995.
  • No. 23 The Changing Israeli Strategic Equation: Toward a Security Regime
    Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler, June 1995.
  • No. 24 Military, Economic and Strategic Aspects of the Middle East Peace Process
    Stuart A. Cohen, Eliyahu Kanovsky, and Efraim Inbar, December 1995.
  • No. 25 Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli National Security (Special Memorial Issue)
    Yitzhak Rabin and Efraim Inbar, January 1996.
  • No. 26 Lessons for Arms Control in a Changing Middle East
    Efraim Karsh, Efraim Inbar, Shmuel Sandler and Gerald Steinberg June 1996
  • No. 27 Contours of Israel's New Strategic Thinking
    Efraim Inbar June 1996.
  • No. 28 Advanced Technology and Future War
    Eliot A. Cohen and Zeev Bonen, November 1996.
  • No. 29 The Use of Force: Israeli Public Opinion on Military Options
    Gad Barzilao and Efraim Inbar, December 1996
  • No. 30 Making Oslo Work
    Max Singer and Michael Eichenwald February 1997
  • No. 31 The Middle East Economies: The Impact of Domestic and International Politics
    Eliyahu Kanovsky, February 1997
  • No. 32 Water Jitters in the Middle East
    Amikam Nachmani, June 1997
  • No. 33 The Risks of Palestinian Statehood
    Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler, June 1997
  • No. 34 Maps of the Israeli Interests in Judea and Samaria
    Haim Gvirtzman, July 1997
  • No. 35 Towards a New Portrait of the (New) Israeli Soldier
    Stuart A. Cohen, September 1997
  • No. 36 Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab States
    Barry Rubin, January 1998
  • No. 37 Dual Use Aspects of Commercial High-Resolution Imaging Satellites
    Gerald Steinberg, February 1998
  • No. 38 Israeli National Security, 1973-96
    Efraim Inbar, February 1998
  • No. 39 THE VULTURE AND THE SNAKE
    Counter-Guerrilla Air Warfare: The War in Southern Lebanon

    Shmuel L. Gordon, July 1998
  • No. 40 India and Israel. Evolving Strategic Partnership
    P.R. Kumaraswamy, September 1998
  • No. 41 'Knives, Tanks & Missiles':
    Israel's Security Revolution
    Eliot Cohen, Michael Eisenstadt, Andrew Bacevich, February 1999 (Hebrew)
  • No. 42 Turkey and the Middle East
    Amikam Nachmani, May 1999
  • No. 43 Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Arab Countries and Iran - An Existential Threat to Israel? (Hebrew)
    Dany Shoham December 1999

BESA Colloquia on Strategy and Diplomacy (Hebrew):
  • No. 1 Studying the Israeli National Security Concept
    Kam, Levite, Inbar, Neeman, and Rabin, Aug. 1991.
  • No. 2 Israeli National Security Decision-Making
    Steinberg, Sandler, Ben-Meir, Gur, and Begin, May 1992.
  • No. 3 Israel, the US and US Jewry in Times of Crisis
    Rackman, Elazar, Arad, Clayman, Levran, Bentsur, Yaron, Gold and Steinberg, Sept. 1992.
  • No. 4 The New Mideast Strategic Map
    Levran, Cohen, Evron, and Gur, Jan. 1993.
  • No. 5 The Israel-Syria Negotiations
    Olmert, Kahalani, and Kanovsky, March 1993.
  • No. 6 Israel's Negotiations with Jordan and the Palestinians
    Ben-Aharon, Zak, and Shueftan, Sept. 1993.
  • No. 7 Israel and the Far East: A Strategic Relationship
    Shichor, Eshkol, and Harel, Sept. 1994.
  • No. 8 Israel-Syria Relations: Whereto?
    Maoz, Perlmutter, Hofi, Inbar, Feiler, Nahmani, and Gold, April 1995.
  • No. 9 The Israeli Military Industries
    Arens, Steinberg, Sadeh, Shalom, Bonen, and Tov, August 1995.
  • No. 10 Turkey and Israel in a Changing Middle East
    Shmuelevich, Landau, Nachmani, Granit, Inbar and Feiler, April 1996.
  • No. 11 Israeli-Jordanian Relations
    Rubinstein, Shueftan, Kam, and Sandler April 1997
  • No. 12 Israel's Security Concept- A reevaluation
    Mordechai, Steinberg, Cohen, Kober, Shavit and Bonen April 1998
  • No. 13 Technology and Warfare - A Future Perspective
    Gat, Gordon and Dror November 1998


Madeleine Feher Annual European Scholar Lecture

The New Terrorism and the Peace Process
Steven Simon  

The Post-Cold War Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance
Helga Haftendorn
Russia - A Partner or an Adversary? A German View
Jorg Kastl
Turkish Foreign Policy
Philip Robins