Azar Gat

Azar Gat ( Hebrew עזר גת; * June 24, 1959 in Haifa ) is a renowned Israeli military historian and theorist.

Life

Gat studied from 1975 to 1983 at the University of Haifa (BA, MA) and from 1984 to 1986 at the University of Oxford (Ph.D.).

He was u. a. Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Fulbright Fellow at Yale University , British Council Scholar at the University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University , Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor at Georgetown University and Koret Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Israel Studies at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University .

He is currently the Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University . There he is founding chairman of the international Executive Master's Program in Diplomacy and Security. He conducts research in the fields of military history, military strategy, military theory and nationalism .

Gat holds the rank of major in the reserve in the Israel Defense Forces .

He is the author of several books and has published in journals such as Foreign Affairs . In 2001 he received the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize , and in 2019 the EMET Prize . In 2006, The Times Literary Supplement made War in Human Civilization its Books of the Year list.

Gat is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of War in History .

Fonts (selection)

• The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz . (Oxford Historical Monographs). Clarendon Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-19-820257-1 .
• The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-820246-6 .
• Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-820715-8 .
• British Armor Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists . (St Antony's Series). Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills 2000, ISBN 0-312-22952-6 .
• Edited by Zeev Maoz: War in a Changing World. 3. Edition. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2003, ISBN 0-472-11185-X .
• A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War . Oxford University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-19-924762-5 .
• Was in Human Civilization . Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-19-923663-1 .
• Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled . (Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Stanford 2009, ISBN 978-1-4422-0114-9 .
• Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-40002-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Azar Gat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for Azar Gat in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Profile of Azar Gat at Tel Aviv University
• Author: Azar Gat at Foreign Affairs