Prof. Yoav Gortzak will join the department in fall 2006. He received his B.A. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. His primary research and teaching interests are in international security (broadly construed), international organization, international relations theory, and American foreign policy. He is particularly interested in questions related to the maintenance and enforcement of international order, and the causes and conduct of violent conflict in the international system. He is currently engaged in a number or research projects that are related to questions of this nature, including a study of American attempts to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the post-Cold War era, and a project examining the use of indigenous forces in international order enforcement. His research has been published in The Journal of Conflict Resolution and Security Studies.

Dr. Gortzak's Curriculum Vitae