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email: inbare@mail.biu.ac.il

Born in Romania (1947), educated at the Hebrew University (B.A. in Political Science and English Literature) and at the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science), Efraim Inbar is a Professor in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of its Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. He served as visiting professor at Georgetown University (1991-92) and visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1996). Prof. Inbar has been appointed as a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow (1998) and was a visiting Fellow at the (London) International Institute for Strategic Studies (2000). He is also the recipient of the Onassis Fellowship (2003). He often lectures at institutions such as RAND, Council of Foreign Relations, Harvard, MIT, Columbia and Yale Universities.

Prof. Inbar served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) as a paratrooper, and he is presently posted (in reserve) at the IDF College of Staff and Command. He was a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council and the Chair of the Committee for the National Security Curriculum at the Ministry of Education. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Yizhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies. Prof. Inbar is widely quoted in the Israeli and international press.

Specialization:

Prof. Inbar’s area of specialization is Middle Eastern strategic issues with a special interest in the politics and strategy of Israeli national security.

Publications:

Prof. Inbar has written over 60 articles in professional journals. He has authored four books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (Washington DC: Wilson Center and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and The Israeli-Turkish Entente (London: King’s College London Mediterranean Studies, 2001), and has edited seven collections of articles.

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