Alan Dowty

Alan Dowty (born January 15, 1940) is an American author, historian and professor of international relations and political science emeritus, University of Notre Dame.^[1] He was formerly on the faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1964–1975, Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, 2003–2006, and President of the Association for Israel Studies, 2005–2007. In 2017 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel Studies by the Association for Israel Studies and the Israel Institute.

Alan Dowty
Alan Dowty in 2008.
Born	(1940-01-15) January 15, 1940 (age 85)
Occupation	Professor emeritus
Education	BA, MA, Ph.D.
Alma mater	Shimer College; University of Chicago
Genre	nonfiction
Subject	international relations

His recent work specialises in and focuses on Israeli–American relations, Israel and the history of Zionism, Israeli politics and the Arab–Israeli conflict.^[2][3]

Early life and education

Dowty earned a B.A. from Shimer College (1959) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1960, 1963). In 1964–1975 he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, during which time he served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and Chair of the Department of International Relations. He has been based at the University of Notre Dame since 1975. He returned to Shimer College to teach in 1966 and in 2013, and has also held visitorships at Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, the Twentieth Century Fund, the University of Haifa, National Defense University, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Brandeis University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Catholic University of America.^[4]

Major publications

• The Limits of American Isolation, (New York University Press, 1971)
• Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973, (University of California Press, 1984)
• Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement, (Yale University Press, 1987)
• The Jewish State: A Century Later, (University of California Press, 1998, 2001)
• Israel/Palestine, (Polity Press, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2023)
• The Arab-Israel Conflict, Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science (Oxford University Press, 2013, 2015, 2019).
• Editor, The Israel/Palestine Reader, (Polity Press), 2019
• Arabs and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Two Worlds Collide (Indiana University Press), 2019
• Israel, (Polity Histories), 2021

References

1. "Alan Dowty". nd.edu. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
2. "Welcome to Israel / Palestine online by Alan Dowty". Archived from the original on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
3. Dowty, Alan (1999). "Is Israel Democratic? Substance and Semantics in the "Ethnic Democracy" Debate". Israel Studies. 4 (2). Project muse: 1–15. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
4. "Alumni Association Board of Directors". Shimer College. Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-04-24.

External links

• Books by Alan Dowty