The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Jonathan Adelman
Professor at the
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
at the University of Denver

"The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State"

Friday, 2nd April 2010 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 p.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 31st March to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Professor Jonathan Adelman
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
University of Denver

Dr. Jonathan Adelman, a full professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, has written and edited 12 books since receiving his Ph.D from Columbia University. His recent book from Routledge in London, The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State, has been well received. He has taught at Hebrew University and the University of Haifa and given talks across the United States on Israel and the Middle East frequently in the last eight years. He ran the Israel Center at the University of Denver for five years.

Professor Adelman has extensive international experience. He has been a Honorary Professor at both Peking University and People’s University in Beijing and visited China 17 times. In November he gave talks for the American Embassy in Beijing and Shanghai to think tanks of the Chinese government. He taught at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow, Central European University in Budapest and People’s University in Beijing.

Professor Adelman has extensive experience with the American government. Last September he briefed the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel on northeast Asia security issues. As Condi Rice’s doctoral dissertation adviser, he briefed the Secretary of State a number of times on international issues. The State Department has sent Professor Adelman on 17 international speaking tours to countries ranging from Japan, China and India to Russia, Germany and Spain. Since last December he was been in China, Turkey, Argentina and Chile for the State Department.
In the 1980s he served for eight years as a Senior Scientist working for SAIC on contracts on the Soviet military for the Defense Department.
Professor Adelman has lectured at universities ranging from Harvard, Columbia and Cambridge to the Air War College and Chinese National Defense University (Beijing).