Amnon Sela is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Russian and Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and also taught at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University. He completed his BA and MA at the Hebrew University and earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh with a dissertation on Soviet responses to German threats before World War II. His research focused on Soviet studies, particularly military strategy, Cold War foreign policy, and the politics of security and ethics. Politically active, he was a founding member of “Circle 77,” a group of academics associated with the Israeli Labor Party, and he served as director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations in the early 1990s.
Selected works:
- Soviet political and military conduct in the Middle East (Macmillan, 1981)
- Israel the peaceful belligerent, 1967-79 (Macmillan 1986ת with Yael Yishai(
- The value of human life in Soviet warfare (Routledge, 1992)