“Israel’s Current National Security Issues”

발표자

“The Effects of the 2011 Arab Uprisings on US-Israeli Relations”

아이탄 길보아 (Eytan Gilboa) 바르-일란 대학교 교수

“The 2011 Arab Uprisings and Israel’s National Security”

이프레임 인바르(Efraim Inbar) 이스라엘 전략문제연구소 소장

“Overview of missile proliferation in the Middle East”

우지 루빈(Uzi Rubin) 전 이스라엘 국방부 미사일 방어 프로그램 국장

이숙종, 동아시아연구원 원장

김연규, 한양대학교 교수
김태현, 중앙대학교 교수
김창수, 국방연구원 책임연구위원
박창권, 국방연구원 국방전략연구실장
신성호, 서울대학교 교수
장지향, 아산정책연구원 중동연구실장
정상률, 한국외국어대학교 교수
최영철, 서울장신대학교 교수
최창모, 건국대학교 교수

Eytan Gilboa  

Eytan Gilboa is Professor of Political Science and Communication, Director of the School of Communication, Director of the Center for International Communication and Senior Researcher at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, all at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is also a Visiting Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a world renowned expert on international communication, public diplomacy and US policy in the Middle East. He has published several books and numerous articles, and has won several significant international fellowships and awards. His most recent book is an edited volume: US-Israel Relations in a New Era: Issues and Challenges after 9/11(Routledge, 2009). Prof. Gilboa received his B.A. degree in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Government from Harvard University. He has taught at the Hebrew University and has been a visiting professor in leading American and European universities including Harvard, UCLA, Georgetown, Tufts, the American University in Washington DC and the University of Hamburg. He has also been a senior research fellow at the Rand Corporation, the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington, DC, the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He was a consultant to the Prime Minister Office and the Ministries of Defense and Foreign affairs, Academic Director of International Studies at the National Defense College, and Chair of the Foreign Service Selection Committee. He contributes op-ed articles to Israeli and international newspapers, and serves as a commentator on television and radio networks.

Efraim Inbar  

Efraim Inbar is a Professor in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Director of its renowned Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (the BESA Center). Born in Romania (1947), Inbar was educated at the Hebrew University (B.A. in Political Science and English Literature) and at the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science). He served as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University (2004), at Georgetown University (1991-92), and visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1996). Prof. Inbar was appointed as a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow (1998), was a visiting fellow at the (London) International Institute for Strategic Studies (2000), and was the recipient of the Onassis Fellowship (2003). He often lectures at institutions such as RAND, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale Universities. Inbar’s area of specialization is Middle Eastern strategic issues with a special interest in the politics and strategy of Israeli national security. He has written over 60 articles in professional journals. He has authored five books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War (2008). He has also edited eleven collections of articles. Prof. Inbar served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) as a paratrooper. He was a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council and the Chair of the Committee for the National Security Curriculum at the Ministry of Education. He served on the Academic Committee of the History Department of the IDF and as the President of the Israel Association of International Studies. Prof. Inbar is widely quoted in the Israeli and international press.

Uzi Rubin 

Uzi Rubin established and was the first Director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization within the Israel Ministry of Defense, in charge of Israel's national missile defense programs. From January 1991 to July 1999 he directed the nationwide development effort of Israel’s Arrow missile defense weapon system, leading it from preliminary design to full-scale development and testing an on to series production. Previous to that he held the positions of Apprentice Engineer, Avions Marcel Dassault (1962), Design and Test Engineer, Engineering Division, Israel Aircraft Industries (1963 –1979), Assistant Director, R&D Directorate for Defense Programs, Israel Ministry of Defense (1979 – 1989), Head of SDIO Cooperation Office, Israel Ministry of Defense (1987 – 1989) and Science Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), Stanford University (1989 – 1990). At Stanford, he co – directed the CISAC major program on missile proliferation. In July 1999, he joined the newly established Israel National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office where he was a Senior Director for Proliferation and Technology. In April 2001 he returned to the Israel Ministry of Defense, where he served as a Special Assistant for R&D Programs in the Office of the Minister of Defense until his retirement from Government service in December 2002. For his achievements during his government career, Uzi Rubin was awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize in 1996, the US David Israel Award for Meritorious Achievement in Theater Missile Defense in 2000, and a second Israel Defense Prize in 2003. He has had articles published on missile proliferation and missile defense in a number of journals and newspapers including ORBIS – A Journal of World Affairs, MA’ARACHOT, Israel Defense Forces Magazine for Military Thought, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Arms Control Today, Israel Review, Haaretz, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Space News, Defense News, Commentair (in French), and Security Index (in Russian). His research papers were published by the Begin Sadaat Institute for Strategic Studies as well as the Israel Institute for National Strategic Studies. He speaks frequently in international conferences on missile threat and missile defense, and is currently the invited presenter of global missile threats in the annual multinational missile defense conferences of the US Missile Defense Agency. Uzi Rubin received his BSc in Aeronautical Engineering in 1962 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his ME in Aeronautical Engineering 1962 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy N.Y. and served in the Artillery Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (1956 – 1958). Having completed a professional career of 40 years in Israel's defense industry and Israel's Government, he is now an independent researcher and consultant specializing in defense and military technologies. His company, Rubincon Ltd, is currently providing consulting services to the Israel Ministry of Defense as well as leading defense industries in Israel and abroad.