Shlomo Avineri is Professor of Political Science and held the positions of Director of the Levi Eshkol Institute for Social and Political Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Director of the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University.
Between 1975-77, Professor Avineri was Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first government of Yitzhak Rabin. He also headed the Israeli delegation to the UNESCO General Assembly, and in 1979 was member of the joint Egyptian-Israeli commission that drafted the Cultural and Scientific Agreement between the two countries.
In 1996 he was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's highest civilian decoration.
His books, which have been translated into many languages, include: Israel and the Palestinians; The Making of Modern Zionism; Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism; Integration and Identity and Politics and Identities in Transformation (both with Werner Weidenfeld); and Europe’s Century of Discontent: The Legacies of Fascism, Nazism and Communism (with Zeev Sternhell).
The Special Roundtable Discussion was held on the 4th floor of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX.
