Dr. Eitan Barak
Dr. Eitan Barak is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security at Shalem College. He also teaches in the Division for Security Forces at Bar-Ilan University and in the IAF Academic Pilots Program at Ben-Gurion University. Dr. Barak graduated magna cum laude from the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, and studied at the Security Studies MA Program, earning his Ph.D. in Political Science (MA-Ph.D. Direct Course), both at Tel Aviv University. Following this, he was a Fulbright postdoctoral grantee in the International Security Program at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dr. Barak was a longstanding faculty member of the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was also part of the academic staff of the Rothberg International School. Additionally, he has been a visiting scholar at the Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley and an expert with the MirYam Institute.
A scholar specializing in arms control and disarmament, international security regimes, peacekeeping operations in the Middle East, international law, and Israel’s foreign and defense policy, Dr. Barak has published extensively. His work has appeared, inter alia, in Security Studies, The Middle East Journal, Journal of Contemporary History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, American University International Law Review, and Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. He is also the author of a groundbreaking book on the legality of flechette weapons and has been a member of the Israeli Bar Association since 1998.
Selected Publications
“Israel's Freedom of Passage in the Suez Canal, 1957-1967,” in: Lutmar Carmela & Rubinovitz Ziv (eds.), The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges (Cham: Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security, 2023), pp.147-177.
Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011)
“None to be Trusted: Israel's Use of Cluster Munitions in the Second Lebanon War and the Case for the Convention on Cluster Munitions," American University International Law Review, 25(3) (2010), pp. 423-483.
“The Freedom that Never Was: Israel's Freedom of Overflight over the Straits of Tiran Prior to the Six Day War," Journal of Contemporary History, 43(1) (January 2008), pp.73–89.
"Israel and an International Peacekeeping Force in the Gaza Strip and West Bank: A Welcome Development?," Contemporary Security Policy, 28(3) (December 2007), pp. 559-578.
“Between Reality, Secrecy and Vision: Israel's Freedom of Navigation through the Straits of Tiran, 1956-1967,” The Middle East Journal, 61(4) (Autumn 2007), pp.657-680.