Areas of Specialization
Arms control and nonproliferation; Culture and conflict; Negotiation
and mediation; Middle East
Project Focus
Arms Control in the Middle East: Problems and Prospects
Background
Avner Cohen was a lecturer in philosophy at Tel Aviv
University from 1983 to 1991 and has held visiting posts at several
American universities including Harvard University, Washington
University, and Hobart and William Smith College. With funding from
the Rockefeller Brothers Fund from 1990 to 1995, he served as
co-director for a project on nuclear arms control in the Middle East
at the MIT Center for International Studies. He is the author of
The Nuclear Age as Moral History and co-editor of Nuclear
Weapons and the Future of Humanity. He has been the recipient of
several awards, including grants from the Rockefeller Foundation,
Merck Fund, W. Alton Jones Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation. His forthcoming book, tentatively titled
Israel and the Bomb: A Political History (1950-1970), will be
published by Columbia University Press in 1998. Cohen received a
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1981.
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