Avraham Sela
Avraham Sela is an Israeli historian and scholar on the Middle East and international relations.
Education and career
Sela studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining a BA in 1971, an MA in 1974 and a PhD in 1986. He currently serves as the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations and a senior research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute, both at the Hebrew University.He is the author of The Decline of the Arab Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order and co-author of The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Adjustment.
Views
Sela is critical of the writings of the New Historians, particularly of Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim.Publications
- Unity Within Conflict in the Inter-Arab System: The Arab Summit Conferences, 1964–1982
- The Palestinian Ba'ath: The Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party in the West Bank under Jordan
- The PLO and Israel: From Armed Struggle to Political Settlement
- The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order
- The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Coexistence, 2nd Edition,
- The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East.