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Dr. Azriel Bermant is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague, in the Centre for the Study of Global Regions in it's Middle East and North Africa Politics Unit. He holds a PhD in diplomatic history from University College London and an MA in international relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has lectured in international Relations at Tel Aviv University and at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a research fellow in security studies at the University of Nottingham between 2018 and 2019, and a research fellow in the arms control and regional security programme at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, between 2012 and 2015. His work has focused on British foreign policy, Europe-Israel relations, transatlantic relations, regional security, arms control, nuclear deterrence and nuclear proliferation.He is the author of ‘Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East (2016, Cambridge University Press). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

List of Publications

Books

• ●   "Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East" (Cambridge University Press, Oct 2016)
• ●   "The Russian and Iranian Missile Threats: Implications for NATO Missile Defence" (Institute for National Security Studies and Tel Aviv University, December 2014)

Selected Chapters in Edited Volumes

• ●   "NATO’s Nuclear Deterrence in the Post-Ukraine Era”, in Emily B. Landau and Anat Kurz (eds) Arms Control and National Security: New Horizons (Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, June 2016)
• ●   "Iron Dome Protection: Missile Defense in Israel’s Security Concept” in Anat Kurz and Shlomo Brom (eds), in The Lessons of Operation Protective Edge (Tel Aviv: Institute for International Security Studies, November 2014) with Emily B. Landau (My contribution: 50 per cent)
• ●   "Pakistan: Reducing the Risks of a Nuclear Disaster” in Emily B. Landau and Anat Kurz (eds) Arms Control and National Security: New Horizons (Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, April 2014)

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• ●   “Nuclear Divergence between Britain and the United States: SDI and the Anti-Ballistic MissileTreaty”, Journal of Strategic Studies (Forthcoming, April 2021) with Prof. Wyn Rees
• ●   “A Chronicle of Failure Foretold: The UK, Israel and Arms Sales to Argentina in the Era of the Falklands War ”, The International History Review (Vol 41: Issue 2, 2019)
• ●   “The Impact of the Cold War on the Thatcher Government’s Middle East Policy”, Israel Affairs 19, No.4, (October 2013)
• ●   “Britain’s Policy towards Israel under Margaret Thatcher”, Münchner Beiträge Zur Jüdischen Geschichte Und Kultur, The Munich Journal of Jewish History and Culture, 7, No. 1 (2013)