Dr Mark Heller

Principal Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University

Dr Mark Heller received his BA from the University of Toronto and his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. Since 1979, his main affiliation has been with the Jeffe Center for Strategic Studies, now part of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has also held a number of temporary positions, including Coordinator of Research at the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security in 1991, Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University in 1992, and Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 1999.

Heller is the author of numerous works on Middle Eastern political and strategic affairs, including The New Middle Class and Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia (1985) and No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1993). He has also published many articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Journal of Strategic Studies, and his op-ed articles have appeared in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and other leading newspapers.