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Biography
Efraim Inbar is a Professor in Political
Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of its Begin-Sadat
(BESA) Center for Strategic Studies.
Born in Romania (1947), he
was 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). He served as visiting professor at
Johns Hopkins University (2004), at Georgetown University (1991-92),
and visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars (1996). Prof. Inbar was appointed as a Manfred Warner
NATO Fellow (1998), was a visiting fellow at the (London)
International Institute for Strategic Studies (2000), and was the recipient of
the Onassis Fellowship (2003). He lectures at institutions such as
RAND, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale Universities.
His area of specialization is Middle
Eastern strategic issues with a special interest in the politics and
strategy of Israeli national security. He has written over 60
articles in professional journals. He has authored five 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
(1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001),
and Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges
since the Yom Kippur War . He has also edited ten collections of
articles.
Prof. Inbar served in the Israel Defense Force
(IDF) as a paratrooper. 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 serves on the Academic Committee
of the History Department of the IDF and as the President
of the Israel Association of International Studies. Prof. Inbar is
widely quoted in the Israeli and international press and is a
columnist for the Jerusalem Post.
Areas of Specialization and Teaching:
- War and Strategy
- National Security Problems in the Middle East
- Israeli Politics
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