Alan Dowty

Alan Dowty

Alan Dowty is Senior Associate for Middle East Studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, and Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Notre Dame.

B.A., Shimer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1963

His recent work focuses on Israeli politics, the Arab-Israel conflict, and issues of international enforcement. [ [http://kroc.nd.edu/faculty_staff/fellows/dowty.shtml Kroc Institute : Alan Dowty ] ]

Ira Sharansky of The Hebrew University calls Dowty's "The Jewish State: A Century Later," "the most thorough and sensitive asessment of Israel's democracy that I have seen." [ By Ezra Mendelsohn , Oxford University Press, 1999 , p. 263 ]

Publications

*The Limits of American Isolation (New York)1971
*Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973 (California) 1984
*The Jewish State: A Century Later (California)
*Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement, Yale) 1987

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