Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +972-2-5881125
Fax: +972-2-5882989
Dept. of Political Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus
Jerusalem
91905
Israel
ABOUT
Oren Barak is the Maurice B. Hexter Chair in International Relations – Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was visiting scholar at Harvard University and a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Cornell University. His research areas include the relationship between the state, society and security with an emphasis on the Middle East. He is the author of The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society (State University of New York Press, 2009), Israel’s Security Networks: A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with G. Sheffer) and State Expansion and Conflict: In and Between Israel/Palestine and Lebanon (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He also edited four books including most recently Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, with D. Miodownik).
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Comparative
Nationalism
Security Studies
State Formation
19th-21st Centuries
Theory
Israel Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Israel
Lebanon
Syria
Specialties
Cnflt & Peace
Collective Identities
Mil In ME
Education
PhD
| 2001
| Islamic & Middle East Studies
| The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstracts
Israel, Lebanon, and their Relations on Film
