Avraham Sela
Avraham Sela is an Israeli authority on the politics of the Middle East and international relations. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem gaining a BA in 1971, an MA in 1974 and a PhD in 1986. Sela is the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations and a Senior Research member at the Harry S. Truman Institute at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Adjustment (New York, 2000) (co-authored with Shaul Mishal), and The Decline of the Arab Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order (Albany, NY, 1998).