On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Professor Shai Feldman, Director, Crown Centre for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, will speak on "Israel after the Elections: Alternative Scenarios" from 1-2pm.
Professor Shai Feldman is the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, U.S. Prof Feldman is a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In 2001- 2003 he served as a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.
In 1997- 2005 Prof Feldman served as Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He was a Senior Research Associate at the Jaffee Center since its establishment in late 1977. In 1984-87 he was director of the Jaffee Center's Project on U.S. Foreign and Defense Policies in the Middle East and, in 1989-94, he directed the Center's Project on Regional Security and Arms Control in the Middle East.
Educated at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prof Feldman was awarded the Ph.D. by the University of California at Berkeley in 1980.
Prof Feldman is the author of numerous publications. These include five books: Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: A Strategy for the 1980s (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982); The Future of U.S.-Israel Strategic Cooperation (Washington D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1996); Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997); Bridging the Gap: A Future Security Architecture for the Middle East (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 - with Abdullah Toukan (Jordan); and, Track-II Diplomacy: Lessons from the Middle East (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003 - with Hussein Agha, Ahmad Khalidi, and Zeev Schiff).
This meeting will be chaired by Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs, and will take place on the fourth floor at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP Rebecca Fishley at iisscurrentevents@iiss.org or tel: 020 7395 9169
