| Research Interests:
War, military theory, strategy
Professional Affiliations:
Professor Gat took his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany (Freiburg), a Fulbright Fellow in the USA (Yale), a British Council Scholar in Britain (Oxford), a Visiting Fellow at the Mershon Center, The Ohio State University, the Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor at Georgetown,and the Koret distinguished Israeli Fellow at the Hoover Institute, Stanford
He was Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University (1999-2003), is the founder and head of the Executive Master's Program in Diplomacy and Security, and is the incumbent of the Ezer Weitzman Chair for National Security.
He is a Major (res.) in the Israeli army.
Selected Publications:
1. The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz (Oxford UP, 1989)
2. The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford UP, 1992)
3. Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists (Oxford UP, 1998)
4. British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists (St Antony/Macmillan, 2000)
5. A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (Oxford UP, 2001)
6. War in a Changing World, co-edited with Zeev Maoz (Michigan, 2001) 8. Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (Hoover, 2009)
7. War in Human Civilization (Oxford UP, 2006); named one of the best books of the year by the times literary supplement (TLS).
8. Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (Hoover, 2009)
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