
Azar Gat
Azar Gat is an Israeli scholar of war, nationalism and ideology, and a professor of political science at Tel Aviv University, where he holds the Ezer Weizman Chair in National Security. Born in Haifa in 1959, he studied at the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University and received his doctorate from Oxford in 1986. He has taught at Tel Aviv since 1987 and founded its executive master's programmes in security and diplomacy. His books include War in Human Civilization, Victorious and Vulnerable, Nations and The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace. He received the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize in 2001 and the EMET Prize in 2019.
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