Prof. Tal Sadeh

Prof. Tal Sadeh is Associate Professor and Head of the European Union Studies Program at Tel Aviv University’s School of Political Science and President of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration. He also teaches in the Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security Studies program at the Shalem College.

Prof. Sadeh holds a PhD in International Relations and an MA in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and studied for a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University. His research and teaching interests focus on international political economy, particularly of the European Union and financial institutions. Specifically, in recent years he has published in leading scientific journals on the politics of sovereign debt management, radical parties in Europe, Europe’s single currency and the impact of wars on international trade. Prof. Sadeh is leading a project on bank-state relations, which he also developed during a research residency in 2022 at the University of Konstanz and in 2023 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. In another project, Prof. Sadeh and his team are developing measures of external validity for studies on the effectiveness of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) policy.

Prof. Sadeh also supervises doctoral students, and his graduates have been recruited as political science faculty members at New York University, Haifa University and Ariel University. He has won many awards and grants, including from the Israel Science Foundation, serves as a judge in leading scientific journals, and is frequently accepted to the most important conferences in his field.