Azar Gat

Azar Gat
עזר גת
Born1959 (age 66–67)
Haifa, Israel
Education
OccupationsInterdisciplinary researcher of war, nationalism and ideology
OrganizationTel Aviv University
Awards

Azar Gat (Hebrew: עזר גת; born 1959) is an Israeli researcher of war, nationalism and ideology, and a professor at the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University.[citation needed]

Gat has served as a visiting professor and researcher at the universities of Oxford, Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Ohio State, Freiburg, Munich and Konstanz[citation needed]. He is a three-time winner of both the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and research grants from Israel Science Foundation (ISF).[citation needed] He has also won a Rothschild Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Gat was a recipient of the EMET Prize for the year 2019[citation needed].

Biography

Born in Israel, Gat holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Haifa (1978), a master's degree from Tel Aviv University (1983), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford (1986). He served as a major in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).[citation needed]

Since 1987, Gat has been on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University (now the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs), where he is currently a full professor and the incumbent of the Ezer Weizman Chair in National Security[citation needed]. He has twice served as head of the department.[citation needed]Gat also founded and heads the Executive MA Program in Security and Diplomacy[1] and the International MA Program in Security and Diplomacy.[2] He is academic advisor to the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)[citation needed]

Publications

Books

  • The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz. Oxford University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0198229483.[3]
  • The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0198202462.[4]
  • Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists. Oxford University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0198207153.[5]
  • British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists. Palgrave Macmillan. 2000. ISBN 978-0312229528.[6]
  • Zeev Maoz, ed. (2001). War in a Changing World. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472111855.[7]
  • A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War. Oxford University Press. 2001. ISBN 9780199247622.[8]
  • War in Human Civilization. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0199236633.[9]
  • Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2010. ISBN 978-1442201149.[10]
  • Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism. Cambridge University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1107400023.[11]
  • The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?. Oxford University Press. 2017. ISBN 9780198795025.[12]
  • War and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terrorism. Routledge. 2018. ISBN 9781138632561.
  • Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars. Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780197646700.
  • The Clausewitz Myth: Or the Emperor's New Clothes. Chronos Books. 2024. ISBN 9781803416212.
  • Military Theory and the Conduct of War: What Is Strategy All About?. Hurst Publishers. 2025. ISBN 9781911723936.

Journal articles

References

  1. ^ "Executive MA Program in Security and Diplomacy" (in Hebrew).
  2. ^ "International MA Program in Security and Diplomacy, Tel Aviv University".
  3. ^ Reviews of The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz:
    • David Gates (1991), History, JSTOR 24421562
    • Harm Klueting (1991), Historische Zeitschrift, JSTOR 27627656
    • Daniel Moran (1990), The International History Review, JSTOR 40106145
    • Gunther E. Rothenberg (1991), The American Historical Review, JSTOR 2162449
    • Michael Sikora (1993), Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, JSTOR 43571751
    • Hew Strachan (1995), The English Historical Review, JSTOR 577348
  4. ^ Reviews of The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century:
  5. ^ Reviews of Fascist and Liberal Visions of War:
    • Robert H. Larson (2000), The International History Review, JSTOR 40108420
    • Frederic S. Pearson (2001), The American Political Science Review, JSTOR 3117788
    • Alaric Searle (2001), "Fuller and Liddell Hart: The Continuing Debate", War in History, JSTOR 26013949
    • Richard M. Swain (1999), The English Historical Review, JSTOR 580354
    • Harold R. Winton (2000), The Journal of Military History, JSTOR 120912
  6. ^ Reviews of British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists:
    • J. P. Harris (2002), The International History Review, JSTOR 40110072
    • Anthony John Trythall (2000), The Journal of Military History, JSTOR 2677303
  7. ^ Review of War in a Changing World: Ian Roxborough (2002), Armed Forces & Society, JSTOR 45346979
  8. ^ Reviews of A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War:
  9. ^ Reviews of War in Human Civilization:
    • Giuliano Caroli (2012), Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali, JSTOR 42741653
    • John Gooch (2009), "Target Practice", Journal of Contemporary History, JSTOR 40543046
    • Paul Joseph (2008), Social Forces, JSTOR 20430839
    • Michael S. Neiberg (2008), Journal of Social History, JSTOR 25096537
    • Keith Stanski (2007), International Affairs, JSTOR 4541770
    • William R. Thompson (2007), The International History Review, JSTOR 40110930
    • Johan M. G. van der Dennen (2007), "Three Works on War", Politics and the Life Sciences, JSTOR 40072928
    • Bruce Vandervort and Ralph Hitchens (2007), The Journal of Military History, JSTOR 30052896
  10. ^ Review of Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperilled: Francis Ghilès (2011), "EE UU y el síndrome de Ícaro. Una historia de arrogancia", Política Exterior, JSTOR 23055068
  11. ^ Reviews of Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism:
  12. ^ Reviews of The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace:
    • Lionel Beehner (2018), "War and Peace", The Journal of Politics, JSTOR 26550996
    • Lawrence D. Freedman (2017), Foreign Affairs, JSTOR 44821893
    • David Sobek (2019), Perspectives on Politics, JSTOR 26615900
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