I-ARI Editorial Advisory Board

Edward Alexander, Ph.D.

Edward Alexander is professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington. He is a literary critic and political polemicist whose books range from Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill and Isaac Bashevis Singer to The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies and The Holocaust and the War of Ideas.

Dr. Alexander graduated from Columbia College and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of many books and articles on nineteenth-century literature thought.

His other books include The Resonance of Dust: Essays on Holocaust Literature and Jewish Fate, The Jewish Wars: Reflections By One of the Belligerents, and Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition. He is the co-editor (with Paul Bogdanor) of the 2006 book The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders. His latest book is Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship. He has also written for Commentary, Encounter, Midstream, and many other publications.

Louis René Beres, Ph.D.

Louis René Beres is Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. Dr. Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971) and is the author of ten books and several hundred scholarly articles and monographs. Born in Switzerland on August 31, 1945, he lectures and publishes widely in the United States and abroad on matters relating to terrorism, nuclear terrorism, nuclear strategy, and nuclear war. Professor Beres has worked on matters of nuclear terrorism with the Defense Nuclear Agency (DoD); Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Nuclear Control Institute; and the JFK Special Warfare Center (DoD).

Harry Clor, Ph.D.

Harry Clor (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Kenyon College. He is the author of On Moderation: Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World (2008), Public Morality and Liberal Society : Essays on Decency, Law and Pornography (1996), and Obscenity and Public Morality : Censorship in a liberal Society (i971). He has edited The Mass Media and Modern Democracy (1974) and authored a number of essays concerning constitutional law, legal philosophy and the moral basis of liberal democracy. Clor is the recpient of teaching awards, and the Harry Clor Distinguished Teaching Chair is established at Kenyon. In 2010 the James Madison Program at Princeton sponsored a conference on “The Political Thought of Harry Clor.”

Isaac Elishakoff, Ph.D.

Isaac Elishakoff serves as the Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. He also holds a courtesy appointment as a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He was born in Kutaisi, Republic of Georgia on February 9, 1944. Professor Elishakoff holds a Ph.D. in Dynamics and Strength of Machines from the Power Engineering Institute and Technical University in Moscow, Russia. Prior to joining the Florida Atlantic University, he taught one year in the Abkhazian University, Sukhumi, Republic of Georgia, and eighteen years at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Ambassador Yoram Ettinger

Ambassador (ret.) Ettinger, the Executive Director of “Second Thought: A US-Israel Initiative,” is an insider on US-Israel relations and Mideast politics. He regularly briefs members of Israel’s Cabinet and Knesset, as well as US legislators and their staff on Middle East developments, US-Israel mutually-beneficial cooperation, the Palestinian issue and on the root causes of international terrorism. Ambassador (ret.) Ettinger’s OpEds have been published in Israel and in the US, and he has been interviewed on Israeli and US TV and radio. Ambassador (ret.) Ettinger – who did his graduate studies at UCLA and undergraduate at UTEP – served as Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, Israel’s Consul General in Houston and Director of Israel’s Government Press Office. He is the editor of “Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom” – a newsletter on national security issues.

Israel Hanukoglu, Ph.D.

Israel Hanukoglu – Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Former Science and Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel (1996-1999).

In addition to his impressive scientific career, Prof. Hanukoglu has maintained an active academic and civic leadership role. In 1995 he was elected as the Chairman of the Professors for a Strong Israel, the largest non-partisan organization of professors in Israel. From 1996 to 1999 he served as the Science Adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu. In 2003 he was appointed as the scientific adviser to the Mayor of Rishon-Lezion for establishing the Jewish Nobel Prize Laureate Boulevard Outdoor Museum. Since 1996 he has served as a founding member of the Ariel Center for Policy Research executive board.

Efraim Karsh, Ph.D.

Efraim Karsh is director of the Middle East Forum, editor of the Middle East Quarterly, and Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London.

Born and raised in Israel, Mr. Karsh earned his undergraduate degree in Arabic language and literature and modern Middle Eastern history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his graduate and doctoral degrees in international relations from Tel Aviv University. After acquiring his first academic degree, he served for seven years as an intelligence officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), where he attained the rank of major.

Dr. Karsh has appeared as a commentator on all the main British and American television networks and has contributed over 100 articles to leading newspapers and magazines, including Commentary, The Daily Telegraph, The International Herald Tribune, The London Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

He has served on many academic and professional boards; has acted as referee for numerous scholarly journals, publishers, and grant awarding organizations; has consulted the British Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as national and international economic companies/organizations; and has briefed several parliamentary committees. A recent CENTCOM directory of Centers of Excellence on the Middle East ranked Mr. Karsh as the fifth highly quoted academic among 20 top published authors on the Middle East, with his articles quoted three times as often as the best of the four non-American scholars on the list.

He is founding editor of the scholarly journal Israel Affairs, now in its sixteenth year, and founding general editor of a Routledge book series on Israeli History, Politics and Society.

Michael Ledeen, Ph.D.

Michael Ledeen is Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington DC. He holds a Ph.D. in modern European history and philosophy from University of Wisconsin and was student of the late George L. Mosse. Author of more than 25 books, most recently:

Accomplice to Evil; Iran and the War Against the West (St Martin’s)
Virgil’s Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles; an Investigation
Into the Sources of Creativity (Transaction)

He Contributes to Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and National Review and blogs at Pajamas Media.

William Morrisey, Ph.D.

Will Morrisey holds the William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the United States Constitution at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, where he has taught since 2000.

Born and raised in Rumson, New Jersey, he received his A. B. from Kenyon College, graduating summa cum laude in 1973 with a double major in political science and English. He received his M. A. in Liberal Studies in 1998 from the New School for Social Research and his Ph. D. in 2002, also from the New School, where he received the Hannah Arendt Memorial Award in Politic for his dissertation on the political thought of the American presidents of the founding and Civil War periods.

He served as legislative aide to New Jersey State Senator Thomas Gagliano; Assistant for Communications, Office of the Executive Director, NJ Transit Corporation; and as Executive Director of the Monmouth County (NJ) Historical Commission.

Dr. Morrisey is the author of eight books on statesmanship and political philosophy, including studies of Charles de Gaulle, Andre Malraux, moral relativism, culture and commercial republicanism, pacifism, and regime change. His most recent book, The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government, is the companion volume to his previous book, Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War (Lexington Books, 2004). He is currently working on a study of the geopolitical strategies of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle.

His articles and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Times, The American Political Science Review, Social Science and Modern Society, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, of which he has served as an editor for thirty years.

Eugene Narrett, Ph.D.

Eugene Narrett earned his BA, MA and PhD at Columbia University. He is the author of five books on cultural history, geopolitics and the relation of Israel and Judaism to Western civilization. Dr. Narrett is a prolific and published author art, book and film reviews; newspaper and magazine columns and articles. He has appeared many times on radio networks like WABC, Westwood Communications, Radio Liberty, Radio America and Israel National News as well as on dozens of regional and local stations. For thirty years he taught literature and art history in the greater Boston area, leads classes on Lit for elders and taught at a University in Korea. A published poet and for fifteen years an exhibiting visual artist, Dr. Narrett brings a uniquely broad perspective to questions of cultural dynamics and historical trends. He has presented papers and spoken to audiences in Washington DC, New York, Boston, Jerusalem and East Asia. He is available to lecture, tutor, mentor, co-write and edit a wide variety of courses, writing and visual creative projects.

Wolf (Zev) Pearlman, Ph.D.

Professor of Architecture, Wolf Pearlman, held tenured appointments at Technion Haifa & Manchester Polytechnic; as well as visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford, & UCLA. Professional experience includes appointments as principal project director at UK’s multi-disciplinary Building Design Partnership, and City of Manchester Housing Research & Development Group, complemented by independent practice. Scientific affiliations include – the Architectural Association, Royal Institute of British Architects & Royal Society of Arts London; the International Association of Space Structures [IASS] Madrid; Israel Geographical Association and Editorial Advisory Board Kybernetes: International Journal of Cybernetics, Systems & Management Sciences. Inventor ‘Pentad City’ – a quasi-crystal topology for high density/low cost new urban infrastructures.

Robert R. Reilly

Robert Reilly has taught at the National Defense University, and served in the Office of The Secretary of Defense, where he was Senior Adviser for Information Strategy (2002-2006). He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, as Senior Adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of information. Before that, he was director of the Voice of America, where he had worked the prior decade.

Mr. Reilly has served in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985), and in the U.S. Information Agency both in DC and abroad. In the private sector, he spent more than seven years with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, as both national director and then president. He has published widely on foreign policy, ìwar of ideasî issues, and classical music. His latest book, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis, has just been published by ISI Press.

Arieh Zaritsky, Ph.D.

Professor Arieh Zaritsky is a professor in the Life Sciences Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the Life Sciences Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Specialties: Bacterial Genetics and Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology. Author of over hundred articles in peer-reviewed, international periodicals. Member of The Archeological Council of Israel (from 1998).

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