Dr. Pnina Shuker
Dr. Pnina Shuker is a lecturer in the Program for Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security at Shalem College, and specializes in strategy and national security, public opinion, and information warfare. Dr. Shuker also serves as a researcher at the Shasha Center for Strategic Studies at the Hebrew University and at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS), as well as being a research fellow at the Weidenfeld Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex and the International Center for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. She is also an associate editor of the journal Society, Military and National Security.
Dr. Shuker previously served as editor-in-chief of the journal Nexus, which deals with issues of religion and politics in the Middle East; as associate editor of the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, which deals with strategic and diplomatic issues; as a research fellow in the Neubauer Program for Outstanding Doctoral Students at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); and as director of international programs at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Shuker is a member of the “Dvora” forum for women in foreign and security policy, and also a member of the Coalition for Regional Security.
Selected Publications
Pnina Shuker. (2024). "The Perception of Israeli Society as Sensitive to Casualties and Its Impact on the IDF's Ability to Win", The Middle East Forum.
Pnina Shuker and Daniel Rakov. (2023). "Russia-Ukraine Information Warfare and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies".
Pnina Shuker. (2022). "The Role of the Israel Defense Forces in Israel’s COVID-19 Crisis: Review, Lessons, and Assessment", The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune.
Lev Topor and Pnina Shuker. (2021). "Russian Influence Campaigns Against NATO in the Baltic Region: Spread of Chaos and Divide et Impera", in: Holger Molder (ed.), The Russian Federation in the Global Information Warfare: Influence Operations in Europe and its Neighborhood. New York: Springer.
Pnina Shuker and Gabi Siboni. (2019). "Defending again Influence Operations – The Challenges Facing Liberal Democracies", in: Dudi Siman Tov and Yossi Kuperwasser (eds.), The Struggle on Consciousness: Strategic and Intelligence Aspects (pp. 1-15), Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Pnina Shuker and Gabi Siboni. (2019). "The Threat of Foreign Interference in the 2019 Elections in Israel and Ways of Handling it", Cyber, Intelligence and Security, 3 (1), 27-39.
Pnina Shuker. "Foreign Intervention in Elections Worldwide: Traits, Trends, and Lessons for Israel", Insight, 1173, (June 10, 2019).
Lev Topor and Pnina Shuker. (2019). "Influence Operations in the Dark Web", Cyber, Intelligence and Security, 3 (2), 63-79.
Pnina Shuker. (2018). "The Cognitive Campaign: The Second Lebanon War as a Case Study", Cyber, Intelligence and Security, 2 (2), 3-22.