Politics, Strategy, and Security in the Middle East
A Fireside Chat with Israeli Scholar Efraim Inbar
Monday, January 25, 2010 * 4-5:15 p.m. * HHC Building (811 E. Seventh
St.) *
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Light refreshments provided
Efraim
Inbar is a professor of political studies and the director
of the
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University in
Israel. His research interests include Middle East strategic issues,
Israeli national security, Israeli politics, and war; and he has served
as the president of the Israel Association of International Studies. 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. A native of Romania,
Inbar has both studied and lectured at universities and
institutions around the world, including RAND, the Institute for
Strategic Studies (London), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, and Harvard, Oxford, and Yale universities. He has written
more than 60 articles, and his books include War and Peace in Israeli
Politics: Labor Party Positions on National Security and Israel's
National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War.
Inbar also writes as a columnist for the Jerusalem Post
and
is widely quoted in the Israeli and international press.
While on campus, Inbar will deliver two public lectures. The
first, "The Iranian Nuclear Challenge," will be on Monday, January 25,
at
7:30 p.m. in the IMU's State Room East. The second, "Israeli-Turkish
Relations and Beyond: A Symposium," will be on Tuesday, January 26, at
7:30
p.m. in the IMU's Oak Room, and will also feature Soner Cagaptay, a
senior fellow and the director of the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy's Turkish Research Program. Sponsors for Inbar's visit
include the Borns Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Central
Eurasian Studies, the Department of Political Science, the Institute for
the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, the Iranian Studies Program, the
Islamic Studies Program, and the Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies
Chair.
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