“Deadlocked: The Palestinian Authority in Domestic and International Perspectives”

Avraham Sela
A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Family Professor of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


Part of the Leadership & Political Change in the Middle East Seminar Series

Avraham Sela is the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Chair in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1987.

Sela specializes in Middle East politics with special emphasis on inter-Arab and Arab-Israeli relations in regional and historical perspectives, contemporary Palestinian politics and society, and transnational foreign fighters in comparative perspective.

He was a visiting fellow at Princeton University (1987-1988) and Oxford University (2000-2001), and a visiting professor at San Diego State University (1993-1994); the University of Waterloo, Ontario (1995); Middle East Technical University, Ankara (1999); University of Tulsa, Oklahoma (2000); Colgate University (2005-2007), and Carleton College (2011).

His most recent books are: The Palestinian Ba'ath: The Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party in the West Bank Under Jordan (1948-1967), Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1984 (Heb.); The Decline of the Arab Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order, Albany: SUNY Press, 1998; The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Adjustment , New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, 2nd Edition, 2006, co-authored with Shaul Mishal; The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East , New York: Continuum, 2002, (ed.).


Post Event Coverage: Seminar Report