Ian J. Bickerton

Ian James Bickerton was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, where he gained his B.A. with Honors in History. He received his M.A. at Kansas State University before completing his Ph.D. at the Claremont Graduate School, CA. He is a member of the School of History at the University of New South Wales, and has taught the history of the modern U.S.A., the history of U.S. foreign relations, and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has also taught at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and he has lectured in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Israel.

Ian has traveled widely in the U.S. carried out research in most U.S. presidential libraries (where he met President Harry. S. Truman) and Israeli State Archives, and during the past decade has taught U.S exchange students in Florence, Italy.

His recent publications include: Italy in the American Imagination (2023), John F. Kennedy: a Reference Guide to his Life and Works (2019), A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Carla Klausner), 9th edn. 2022, The Illusion of Victory: The True Costs of War (2011), Unintended Consequences: The United States at War (with Kenneth Hagan (2007), and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Guide For the Perplexed (2012), and Forty-Three Days: The Gulf War (1991).