Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov,
Giancarlo Elia Valori Professor of International Relations.

 

Photo A graduate in Middle Eastern studies and Political Science, he received his Master's degree and his Doctorate in International Relations at the Hebrew University, completing his studies in 1978 and joining the faculty the following year.
He has served as a research fellow at Stanford and at Columbia, and as a visiting professor at the University of Florida.
Professor Bar-Siman-Tov holds the chair for the study of Peace and Regional Cooperation, and also serves as the head of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the University and the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution. His fields of research are the management and resolution of conflicts, in particular in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Recently, his research has focused on 'The Complexity in Decision-Making in the Transition from War to Peace - the Case of Israel', stable peace, reconciliation, what went wrong in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

 

1. Linkage Politics in the Middle East:
Syria Between Domestic and External Conflict 1961-1970
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1983).

 

2. Israel, the Superpowers and the War in the Middle East
(New York: Praeger, 1987).

 

3. Israel and the Peace Process 1977-1982:
In Search of Legitimacy for Peace
(Albany: SUNY Press, 1994).

 

4. The Transition from War to Peace:
The Complexity of Decisionmaking - The Israeli Case
(Tel Aviv: The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, 1996) (in Hebrew).

 

5. Stable Peace Among Nations
(Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)

(with Arie M. Kacowicz, Ole Elgstrom, and Magnus Jerneck).

 

6. From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation
(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).