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Zach Levey
August 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
Office Telephone Number: 04-8240933
Electronic Address: zachl@poli.haifa.ac.il
Ph.D. – Department of Political Science,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1994.
Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
Dates
Name of Institution and
Department
Rank/Position
1993-1994
Department of Political
Science, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem
Instructor
1994-1997
Department of Political
Science, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
Visiting Assistant
Professor
1997-2005
Department of Political
Science, University of Haifa
Lecturer
2005-2014
School of Political Science
University of Haifa
Senior Lecturer
2009-2011
Dept. of Political Science,
Dept. of History,
International Affairs
Program and Program in
Jewish Studies, University
of Colorado at Boulder
Visiting Professor
2014-
School of Political Science
University of Haifa
Associate Professor
Offices in University Academic Administration
Dates
Office/Position
2012-
Chair, Division of International Relations, School of
Political Science
2014-
Director, Program in Diplomacy Studies
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Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University
2002 Referee for Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
2009, 2013
Relations).
Committee Member, ISF, (Political Science and International
2011-2014 Member of the Editorial Board, Diplomatic History.
Referee for the following academic journals and presses:
Contemporary British History
Diplomatic History
Diplomacy and Statecraft
Civil Wars
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Journal of Contemporary History
The Journal of Israeli History
The Journal of Strategic Studies
Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Hebrew)
Politika (Hebrew)
Katedra (Hebrew)
Presidential Studies Quarterly
The University of North Carolina Press
Ben-Gurion Research Center Press (Sde Boker, Ben-Gurion University)
Magnes Press
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations
Israeli Foreign Policy
The Cold War
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
The International System: 1919-1939
Teaching Awards (University of Haifa):
Outstanding Lecturer, School of Social Sciences: 2000, 2001.
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Supervision of Graduate Students
Name of Student
Title of Thesis
Degree
Date of
Completion
Amir Gurski
Israeli-Egyptian Negotiations, 1971
and 1973-74: A Comparative Analysis
of Case Studies
M.A.
2006
Nir Noygebor
The United States, Israel, and the
Johnson Plan, 1961-1963 (cosupervised with Professor Mechal
Sobel)
M.A.
2007
Shirin Hassan
The Foreign Policy of Syria Toward
the United States since the End of the
Cold War
M.A.
2009
Idan Rochell
The United States and the Arab-Israeli M.A.
Conflict over Water, 1964-1967 (cosupervised with Dr.Eran Shalev)
2011
Tatiana Mann
The Sinai II Agreement of 1975:
Israeli Decision Making and US-Israeli
Relations
M.A.
2011
Mor Cohen
Examination of the Strategic-Cultural
Dimension in Inter-State Negotiations
During Crises: Case Study- The
Cuban Missile Crisis
M.A.
2014
Shlomit Shani
Israel’s Public Diplomacy
M.A.
2014
Arik Ariel
The Palestinian Refugee Problem as
an Issue in Israel's Foreign Policy,
1948-1967
Ph.D.
2012
Shuli Binah
U.S.-Iraqi Relations, 1967-1984 (coPh.D.
super-vised with Prof. Amatzia Baram)
2014
Nir Noygebor
The Johnston Plan, 1952-56: The
United States, Israel and the Waters
of the Jordan River (co-supervised
with Professor Mechal Sobel)
Ph.D.
in progress
Tatiana Mann
The Conditions and Considerations for Ph.D.
US Intervention in Middle East Crises
in progress
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Zach Levey, Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1997 (Reprinted in paperback 2009).
Book nominated for the following awards:
Stuart L. Bernath Prize
George Louis Beer Prize
Edgar S. Furniss Book Award
2. Zach Levey, Israel in Africa: 1956-1976. (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012).
Edited Book
Zach Levey and Elie Podeh, Britain and the Middle East: From Imperial Power
to Junior Partner. (Sussex Academic Press, 2008).
Articles in Refereed Journals
1.
“The Rearming of Syria and Rehabilitation of Soviet Credibility: October
1982 to May 1983,” Jerusalem Journal of International Relations 10, 4
(December 1988), 31-53.
2.
"Israel's Pursuit of French Arms, 1952-1958," Studies in Zionism (now
Journal of Israeli History), 14, 2 (Autumn 1993), 183-210.
3.
"Anglo-Israeli Strategic Relations, 1952-1956," Middle Eastern Studies
31, 4 (October 1995), 772-802.
4.
"Israel's Quest for a Security Guarantee from the United States, 19541956," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 22, 1 (1995), 43-63.
5.
“Israel’s Entry to Africa, 1956-1961,” Diplomacy and Statecraft 12, 3
(September 2001), 87-114.
6.
"Israeli Foreign Policy and the Arms Race in the Middle East, 1950-1960,"
Journal of Strategic Studies 24, 1, (2001), 29-48.
7.
"The Rise and Decline of a Special Relationship: Israel and Ghana, 19571966," African Studies Review 46, 1 (April 2003), 155-77.
8.
"Israel's Entry Into Cyprus, 1959-1963: Diplomacy and Strategy in the
Eastern Mediterranean," Middle East Review of International Affairs
Journal, 7, 3 (September 2003).
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9.
"Israel's Involvement in the Congo, 1958-1968: Civilian and Military
Dimensions," Civil Wars, 6, 4 (Winter 2003), 14-36.
10.
"Israel's Strategy in Africa, 1961-1967," International Journal of Middle
East Studies 36, 1, (February 2004), 71-87.
11.
"Britain's Middle East Strategy, 1950-1952: General Brian Robertson and
the 'Small' Arab States," Middle Eastern Studies 40, 2 (March 2004), 5879.
12.
"The United States' Skyhawk Sale to Israel, 1966: Strategic Exigencies of
an Arms Deal," Diplomatic History, 28, 2 (April 2004), 253-74.
13.
"United States Arms Policy Toward Jordan, 1963-1968," Journal of
Contemporary History 41, 3 (July 2006), 527-43.
14.
"Israel's Exit from Africa, 1973: The Road to Diplomatic Isolation," British
Journal of Middle Eastern History 35, 2 (August 2008), 205-26.
15.
“Anatomy of an Airlift: U.S. Military Assistance to Israel during the 1973
War," Cold War History 8, 4 (November 2008), 481-501.
16. "Israel, Nigeria and the Biafra Civil War, 1967-1970," Journal of Genocide
Research (forthcoming).
17. “The United States, Israel, and Nuclear Desalination: 1964-1968,”
Diplomatic History (forthcoming).
Book Chapters
1.
"Britain and Israel, 1950-67: The Strategic Dimension," in Levey and
Podeh, Britain and the Middle East:From Imperial Power to Junior
Partner. (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008), 90-107.
2.
"French-Israeli Relations, 1950-1956: The Strategic Dimension," in
Simon Smith (ed.), Reassessing Suez 1956: New Perspectives on the
Crisis and its Aftermath (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishers, 2008), 87106.
3.
“Israel in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda, 1962-1972” (under
final review) in Clive Jones and Tore Peterson (eds.),
Israel's Clandestine Diplomacy: from the Centre to the Periphery
(London: Hurst and Co. Publishing), 137-52.
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Entries in Encyclopedias
1. "American-Israeli Relations," entry in Dictionary of American History (New
York: Charles Scribner’s and Sons), 2002.
2. "Arms and Armaments in the Middle East,"
"The Economic Survey
Mission," "The Northern Tier" and "The Tripartite Declaration." Four entries in
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, (MacMillan
Reference USA), 2nd edition, 2004.
3. "Israel" and "The Six Day War," two entries in The Encyclopedia of the Cold
War, (New York: Routledge), 2008, 463-66, 794-96.
Book Reviews
1. Review of Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1953-1960 by
Isaac Alteras, in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 12 (1996), 364-6.
2. "Building an Alliance and Building a Bomb," feature review of Decade of
Transition, by Abraham Ben-Zvi (New York: Columbia University Press,
1998), and Israel and the Bomb, by Avner Cohen (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1998), in Diplomatic History 24, (2000), 353-60.
3. Review of The Jewish State: A Century Later, by Alan Dowty (Berkeley:
The University of California Press, 1998), in The Historian, 62, 2 (2000).
4. Review of David Ben-Gurion, the State of Israel, and the Arab World, 19491956, by Zaki Shalom, (Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press: 2002), in
International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, 1 (February 2004), 129-30.
5. "JFK and the U.S.-Israeli Relationship," feature review of Support Any
Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israeli Alliance, by
Warren Bass (Oxford University Press, 2003), in Diplomatic History. 29, 2
(April 2005), 379-82.
6. Review of The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991: From Che
Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale, by Edward George (London, Frank Cass, 2005),
in Civil Wars, 10, 2 (June 2008), 210-11.
7. Review of Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel's
Foreign Policy, 1948-1967, by Uri Bialer (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2006) in Middle East Journal 60, 2 (April 2006), 387-8.
8. Review of Missed Opportunities: US Diplomatic Failures and the ArabIsraeli Conflict 1947-1967, by Candace Karp (Claremont, CA: Regina Books,
2004), in International Journal of Middle East Studies 38, 4 (November 2006),
605-7.
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9. Review of David Rodman. Arms Transfers to Israel: The Strategic Logic
Behind American Military Assistance. Brighton: (Sussex Academic Press
2007), in Israel Studies Forum 24, 2 (Winter 2009), 110-11.
10. Review of Yaacov Ro'i and Boris Morozov, The Soviet Union and the June
1967 Six Day War (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), in Journal
of Contemporary History 45, 2 (April 2010), 32-3.
11. Review of Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), Volume XXV:
Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973 (Nina Howland and Craig Daigle, eds.).
United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 2011 (1200
pages), in Passport (Society for the Historians of American Foreign
Relations), September 2013.
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