Gerald Steinberg

Gerald M. Steinberg studied physics at UC Berkeley (including employment at NASA), went to UC San Diego for graduate studies in astrophysics, followed by a dual expertise fellowship at Cornell University where he completed a doctorate in Government. His dissertation and first book (Satellite Reconnaissance: The Role of Informal Bargaining) focused on the intersection between science and international relations. He then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the MIT-Harvard arms control program, and made aliyah in 1982. He is a Professor of Political Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel, where he also founded the Program on Conflict Management and Diplomacy, and in 2002, created NGO Monitor, as part of the Institute for NGO Research in Jerusalem. His research focuses Middle East diplomacy and strategy, hard and soft power, the politics of international law, and the new antisemitism. He has participated in IAEA academic conferences on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction, and for many years, in track-two discussions related to regional stability. Publications include: “NGOs, Human Rights, and Political Warfare in the Arab-Israel Conflict”; "The Role of International Legal and Justice Discourse in Promoting the New Antisemitism"; and "Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Realism", (2019, Indiana University Press). He is also the recipient of the prestigious Bonei Zion and Menachem Begin prizes. Additional information is available at www.geraldsteinberg.com