Dr. Shmuel Bar is Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel and on the steering team of the annual "Herzliya Conference." He is also an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and has been (2007) Distinguished Koret Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

He is the author of Warrant for Terror: Contemporary Fatwas and the Duty of Jihad, (Hoover Institution and Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and many articleson relating to the Middle East, including deterrence theory in the context of the Middle East, radical Islamic ideology, Iranian defense doctrine, leadership and negotiation behavior, Syrian leadership and the Ba'ath party, Jordan and the Palestinians. His most recent article is Deterring Terrorists: What Israel has Learned, Policy Review, June-July, 2008.

Dr. Bar served for thirty years in the Israeli government, first in IDF Intelligence and then in the Israeli Office of the Prime Minister. Since the mid 1980's he specialized in the ideology and operational codes of Islamic fundamentalist movements and particularly of the Jihadi movement that later evolved into al-Qaeda. During this period he also served as First Secretary at the Israeli Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands.

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