Avi Shlaim

Avi Shlaim ( born October 31, 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a British- Israeli historian and Professor of International Relations at Oxford University.

Life

Avi Shlaim was born in Baghdad and grew up in Israel. He speaks both Hebrew and Arabic. In the Israeli army he served from 1964 to 1966 his military service. Shlaim studied history at Cambridge University and international relations at the London School of Economics. After a PhD at Reading University he taught there from 1970 to 1987 with a focus on International Relations European Union.

Shlaim, who is Israeli and British citizen, writes regularly for the Guardian and is one of the new Israeli historians.

Politics

Avi Shlaim has called on a visit to Norway in sanctions against Israel, because 40 % of Israel's foreign trade is with the EU and not the U.S.. He explained that the only hope for a future between Israel and the Palestinians is that Europe plays a crucial role. Economic sanctions are a means.

Publications

• The United States and the Berlin Blockade 1948-1949. A study in crisis decision - making. University Press, Berkeley, Carlif. 1989, ISBN 0-520-06619-7 (International crisis behavior series, 2).
• The Politics of Partition. King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine 1921-1951; a concise history. University Press, Oxford, 1990, ISBN 0-19-285223- X (former title: Collusion across the Jordan ).
• War and Peace in the Middle East. Penguin Books, New York 1995, ISBN 0-14-024564-2.
• The Iron Wall. Israel and the Arab World. Norton Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-393-32112-6.
• Israel and Palestine. Reappraisals, revisions, refutations. Verso Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84467-366-7.
• Lion of Jordan. The life of King Hussein in war and peace. Alfred Knopf, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-400-04305-7.

• The Cold War and the Middle East. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-1982-9099-3.