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■□■ Prof. Alfred Tovias
Room: 5422
Tel: 02 5881053
Fax: 02-5882989
Mailing address: Department of  International Relations
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
91905 Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Email: mstovi@mscc.huji.ac.il

 

C.V.                        

Title: Professor and Chairman of the Department
Degree: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Geneva
Appointments:

Lecturer: 1979; Senior Lecturer 1984; Associate Professor 1992; Full Professor 2008;

Chairman of the Department of International Relations (Since October 2010)
Other Appointments: Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (October 2005 - September 2010);
Jean Monnet Chair in External Economic Relations of the EU (since 2001);
Walter Rathenau Professor in European Economics(since 2001)
 
Research Interests: Trade Policy; the ongoing enlargements of the European Union. Israel and the EU; proliferation of  preferential trade agreements; trade in services; regionalism; the political economy of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries; economic cooperation and the Middle East.
 
Courses:

(58312) International Trade: Theory and Policy
(58314) Regional trade Agreements
(58440) The EU and Mediterranean Non Member Countries
(58813) The Trade Policy of the European Community
(58869) European Economic Integration

Research Projects               

"The Brave New World of Cross-Regionalism", CEPII Reserch Programme 2004-2005.
"Putting the Mediterrenean Union in Perspective" EUROMESCO Research Project, in cooperation with R. Aliboni, A. Driss and T. Schumacher
International Openness and Social Development as Endogenous Determinates of Growth and Convergence of the Countries in the MENA Region, FEMISE Reserch Program in cooperation with the University of Warsaw.

"Recent migration patterns from MENA countries to the EU: a quantitative assessment and policy implications" , FEMISE Research Program, in cooperation with the University of Nantes(France) and the University Mohamed V (Morocco).
 

"Full integration vs. partial trade liberalization: Comparing the economic performance of the NMS and MPCs", FEMISE Research program, in cooperation with the University of Warsaw (Poland)
 

"Comparative analysis of importance of technical barriers to trade (TBT) for Central and Eastern European Countries’ and Mediterranean Partner Countries’ exports to the EU", FEMISE Research Program, in cooperation with the University of Warsaw (Poland). 
 

"Mapping EU and US Economic Initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and the Effects on Honest Broker Perceptions", EUROMESCO Research Program, in cooperation with MEDAC (Malta) and with IFRI (France).
 

Recent Publications

A.Tovias, "The EU and the Mediterranean Nonmember States"in F.Bindi (ed.), Foreign Policy of the European Union, Washington, Brookings Institution Press, 2010 pp. 160-82.

A.Tovias(2009), "La Condicionalidad y la Politica Europea de Vecindad", Informacion Comercial Espanola, 846, Enero-Febrero, pp. 7-18.

A.Tovias(2008), "Liberalising Trends in Israel's Trade Policy: Trade Policy Review of Israel", The World Economy, 31/11, pp.1433-42

A.Tovias, "Relations Between Israel and the EU", (in French) in A.Dieckhoff (ed.), L'Etat d'Israel, Paris, Fayard, 2008, pp.395-404.

A.Tovias(2007), "Spontaneous vs. Legal Approximation: The Europeanization of Israel", European Journal of Law Reform, 9/3: pp. 485-501.

A.Tovias, S.Kalaycioglu, I.Dafni, E.Ruben and L.Herman (2006), "What Would Normalization of Economic Relations Between Mashrek Countries, Turkey and Israel Imply?" The World Economy, 30/4:pp. 665-84.

A.Tovias, S.Kalaycioglu, I.Dafni, E.Ruben and L.Herman (2006), "What Would Normalization of Economic Relations Between Mashrek Countries, Turkey and Israel Imply?" The World Economy, 30/4:pp. 665-84.

A.Tovias, "Economic Liberalism between Theory and Practice" in E.Adler, F.Bicchi, B. Crawford and R. Del Sarto (eds.), The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2006, pp.191-211.

A. Tovias, (2006), Exploring the "Pros" and "Cons" of Switzerland’s and Norway’s Model of Relations with the EU: What Can Be learned From These Two Countries’Experience By Israel, Cooperation and Conflict, 41/2: pp.203-22.
 

A.Tovias, "Thinking Ahead: Israel’s Future Relations With The European Union" in P.Herrmann and A.Tausch (eds.), Dar Al Islam. The Mediterranean, The World System and The "Wider Europe", New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2005, pp.173-82.

A.Tovias, "The Southern European Economies and European Integration" (in Portuguese), in A.Costa Pinto and N.Severiano Teixeira (eds.), A Europea do Sul e a Construcao da Union Europeia 1945-2000, Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciencias Sociais, 2005, pp.137-53.

A.Tovias(C) and I.Dafni(C) (2005), The Impact of the EU’s Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe on Israel’s Capital Inflows and Outflows  (in Hebrew),  The Economic Quarterly (Riv'von Le Calcala), 51/4: 596-608.
 

A.Tovias (2005), Normative and Economic Implications for Mediterranean Countries of the 2004 European Union Enlargement, Journal of World Trade, 39/6: 1135-59. [IF: 0.517; 94/172].
 

A.Tovias(PI) and A.A.Magen(C) (2005), Reflections From the New Near Outside: An Israeli Perspective on the Institutional Impact of EU Enlargement European Foreign Affairs Review, 10/5: 399-425.
 
A.Tovias(PI) and R. Al Khouri(C) (2004), An Empirical Investigation of the Potential Economic Effects of a Bilateral Free Trade Area Agreement Between Israel and Jordan in the context of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, Israel Affairs, 10/3: 138-58.

A.Tovias(C) and M. Ugur(C) (2004), Can the EU Anchor Policy Reform in Third Countries? An Analysis of the Euro-Med Partnership, European Union Politics, 5/4: 395-418.   


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