Professor Inbar also serves as the Head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem College. Professor Inbar was the founding director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, a position he held for 23 years (1993-2016), and a professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and Boston universities; a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow; and a visiting fellow at the (London-based) International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was president of the Israel Association of International Studies; a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council; chairman of the National Security Curriculum Committee in the Ministry of Education; and a member of the Academic Committee of the IDF History Department. He has authored five books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), and 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 (2008), and edited fourteen collections of scholarly articles. He is an expert on Israeli strategic doctrine, public opinion on national security issues, US Middle East policy, Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, and Israel-Turkey relations.
Inbar holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, after finishing undergraduate studies in Political Science and English Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
While Iran has been weakened and Lebanon may yet free itself of Hezbollah, Turkey is on the ascendency and the Assad dynasty has been replaced by dictators espousing an Islamist agenda with little tolerance for dissent of any kind
The terror group’s financial and operational expansion across Africa threatens Western interests and regional stability. A US-imposed ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon could leave Hezbollah’s money laundering, arms trading, drug trafficking and terrorist training.
Israel will have to live by its sword for many long years ahead.
The IDF is battling Hezbollah in Lebanon to enable Israel’s 85,000 displaced citizens to return safely to their homes. Less known is the significant security
By standing up to Iran and its proxies, Israel prevents the Eastern Mediterranean from falling under the control of radical Islam
Europe borders the Middle East, and the continent cannot insulate itself from events in this region. Its options, however, are limited: Europe is hardly a
History proves that more victims of release agreements with terrorist organizations are a certainty. Therefore, the emerging hostage deal is problematic from a moral standpoint.
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Western attitudes view the use of force as uncivilized and anachronistic; Middle Easterners see it a legitimate option in the toolbox of international actors. In fact, in this part of the world, in many situations, escalation is the best way to put an end to violence.
Interview by Prof. Efraim Inbar
Israel must carefully navigate U.S. politics to maintain bipartisan support and avoid the appearance of election interference. Trump has isolationist instincts and can be unpredictable.
Closing remarks of the “Africa and Israel: Building Strategic and Economic Bridges” which took place on July 2, 2024 at Tel-Aviv University. The conference is a joint collaboration between the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies at Tel-Aviv University, the Israel-Africa Relations Institute (IAI), and the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS).
