The Middle East in Transition: Implications for the US and Israel with Dr. Dan Schueftan

The LBJ School of Public Affairs will welcome Dr. Dan Schueftan, Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa Israel, on March 6 at 12:15 PM in SRH 3.122 for a talk titled “The Middle East in Transition: Implications for the US and Israel.” Lunch will be provided.

Dr. Dan Schueftan is the Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Sciences there, and at the Israel Defense Forces National Defense College. For the last four decades he has been a consultant to Israeli decision makers and to the top echelon of Israel's Prime Minister's Office, Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry and The National Security Council. He is a regular source and interviewee for radio and television programs on the Middle East in Israel, the Arab world, Europe, and North America.

Dr. Schueftan has been consulting with and briefing Members of the US Senate, the House of Representatives and their staff, as well as top professionals and key political appointees in the executive branch since 1977. He has been briefing ministers, parliamentarians, political leaders, senior officers, defense and intelligence officials and government advisors in Europe since 1975.

Dr. Schueftan has published extensively on contemporary Middle Eastern history, with emphasis on Arab-Israeli relations, Inter-Arab politics and American policy in the Middle East. His books cover a wide variety of topics: A Jordanian Option - Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians (1986); Attrition: Egypt's Post War Political Strategy 1967-1970 (1989); Disengagement - Israel and the Palestinian Entity (1999). This last book, advocating disengagement, had a considerable effect on Israeli policy makers. Dr. Schueftan's most recent book (2011) is Palestinians in Israel - the Arab Minority and the Jewish State.

Dr. Schueftan is the Goldman Visiting Professor at Georgetown University for this academic year.