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Professor Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch is professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and former Senior Researcher in the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. Amongst his latest studies are “Rethinking the "Arab Spring": Winners and Losers,” Middle East Quarterly (2021) “The Palestinian Military, Two Not One,” Oxford Handbook on Military and Security Studies (2021), “Jordan and Hamas,” Handbook on Jordan, 2019, and “Assessing Iranian Soft Power in the Arab World from Google Trends,” The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies 2019.

Recent publications

Security Through Economics: Regional Infrastructure as a Lever for Stability

Long-term security depends not only on preventing threats but also on shaping shared interests. Economics,...

Mapping the Middle East’s Game of Camps

The multi-front war has altered the balance within and between the region’s rival camps, requiring...

Halting Arms Sales to Qatar Is Only the First Step

Israel’s decision to end defense exports to Qatar addresses only part of the problem. Doha...

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