Zach Levey
- Visiting Professor
- INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- JEWISH STUDIES
About Prof. Levey:
Zach Levey is the Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado. He completed his Ph.D. in 1994 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) until 1997 and has since then been on the faculty of the University of Haifa, where he served seven years as chair of the Division of International Relations. Professor Levey spent the academic years 2009-11 and 2015-16 on sabbatical at the University of Colorado, during which time he taught courses for the International Affairs Program, the Program in Jewish Studies, the Department of History and Department of Political Science.
Areas of Research Related to Jewish Studies:
His areas of research and classroom instruction are Israeli Foreign Policy, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Cold War and the Great Powers in the Middle East. He is the author of books and articles in those fields.
Courses Taught:
- History of Arab-Israeli Conflict (JWST 3650/IAFS 3650)
Recent and Forthcoming Publications (Selected):
Israel in Africa 1956-1976. (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012).
“The United States, Israel, and Nuclear Desalination: 1964- 1968,” Diplomatic History 39, 5, (November 2015), 904-925.
“The United States, Israel and the 1976 Red Lines in Lebanon,” The International History Review, 44, 4 (2022).
“Israel: The Primacy of Security in the Absence of a Grand Strategy: 1948-1973,” in Clive Jones and Tore Peterson (eds.)
Grand Strategy Mapping the Contemporary Middle East: The Concepts and Debates (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2022).