SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Dr. Oded Brosh, a leading expert on nuclear politics, will serve as the Jewish Studies Program’s Visiting Israeli Professor in Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. Dr. Brosh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy and Director of M.A. Specialization in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. His expertise is in the field of nuclear politics, strategy in the nuclear age, deterrence and strategic development; nuclear proliferation and political, strategic and technological issues of weapons of mass destruction.
Brosh previously taught at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva. His publications include The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East: Opacity, Theory and Reality, 1960-1991 – An Israeli Perspective, The Emerging US Strategy on Iran’s Nuclear Program – Containment, and Iran in 2025: Four Scenarios. He has also served as a senior analyst with the Prime Minister’s Office. Dr. Brosh holds an MA and a PhD in Political Science from the Hebrew University. As an undergraduate he studied at Johns Hopkins University, and is a graduate of UCLA. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
As a child of a veteran diplomat in Israel’s Foreign Service, serving with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brosh’s early education included school at the Belgian School in Cologne, Germany, in Jerusalem, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in Yangon, Myanmar and at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. Brosh’s residency at SDSU is supported by a grant from the Israel Institute (Washington, DC) , which is dedicated to the knowledge and study of modern Israel, and by the Lipinsky Institute for Jewish Studies endowment.
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