Cette conférence sera en anglais.
This public lecture will be in English.
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
presents
The Foundations of Israeli Security Conceptions
David Tal
Ph.D.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Desmarais Building, room 3102
Dr. David Tal is the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies and Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is an expert on Israel's security and diplomatic history, US disarmament policy, and the history of the Middle East. He is the winner of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Kennedy Library’s Arthur Schlesinger Fellowship. Professor Tal has published several books, including War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy (2004), edited The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East (2001 ), and Israel’s Conception of Current Security - Origins and Development 1949-1956 (1998). His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, and he is currently completing a manuscript on the history of nuclear disarmament from 1945 to 1963. Professor Tal received his Ph.D. in History from Tel Aviv University.
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