Azar Gat
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University, which he twice chaired. Born in Israel (1959), he took his BA from Haifa University (1978), MA from Tel Aviv University (1983), and DPhil from the University of Oxford (1986). His publications include: The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz (Oxford UP, 1989); The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford UP, 1992); Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists (Oxford UP, 1998); and British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists (Macmillan, 2000). The first three books have been reissued in one volume as A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (Oxford UP, 2001). His War in Human Civilization (Oxford UP, 2006) was named one of the best books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). His most recent books include: Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (Hoover, 2010); Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism (Cambridge UP, 2013); The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (Oxford UP, 2017); and War and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terrorism, (collected articles; Routledge, 2018). His books have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew. His Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today’s Culture Wars was published by Oxford in November 2022.
Professor Gat has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany three times (Freiburg, Munich, Constance); a Fulbright Fellow in the USA (Yale); a British Council Scholar in Britain (Oxford); a visiting fellow at the Mershon Center, The Ohio State University; the Goldman Visiting Professor at Georgetown; and the Koret Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the founder and head of both the Executive Master's Program in Diplomacy and Security and the International Master's Program in Security and Diplomacy (taught in English) at Tel Aviv University.
In 2019 Professor Gat was awarded the EMET Prize in the fields of Political Science and Strategy. Granted under the auspices of the Prime Minister’s office, it is considered Israel’s highest scholarly prize.
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University, which he twice chaired. Born in Israel (1959), he took his BA from Haifa University (1978), MA from Tel Aviv University (1983), and DPhil from the University of Oxford (1986). His War in Human Civilization (Oxford UP, 2006) was named one of the best books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). In 2019 Professor Gat was awarded the EMET Prize in the fields of Political Science and Strategy.
