Yoel Guzansky

Yoel Guzansky of the INSS in a photo from the INSS website. Accessed 30 November 2012.

Yoel Guzansky is a Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies.

Education

Yoel Guzansky is a graduate of the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University and is a doctoral candidate in international relations.

Career History

Between 2005 - 2009 Guzansky worked on coordinating the Iranian nuclear challenge at the National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office, initially as a senior expert on arms control and later as head of the Iran desk.

Current Activity

Yoel Guzansky is a research fellow at INSS. He is quoted as being an expert on security in the Gulf states and is a frequent contributor to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

Publications

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Inspired by the "Arab Spring": Saudi Arabia's Volatile Shiite Minority', INSS Insight, No. 374, October 14, 2012.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Battle for Bahrain Continues', INSS Insight, No. 329, April 25, 2012.

• Yoel Guzansky and Oded Eran, 'The Rise of Qatar', INSS Insight, No. 319, March 6, 2012.

• Amos Yadlin and Yoel Guzansky, The Strait of Hormuz: Assessing and Neutralizing the Threat', Strategic Assessment, Volume 14, No. 4, January 2012.

• Yoel Guzansky, Yonathan Lerner, 'Iran: A Strategic Simulation', October 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, Erez Striem, 'Yemen after Saleh', INSS Insight, No. 298, December 1, 2011.

• Yoel Guzanksky, 'Saudi Activism in a Changing Middle East', Strategic Assessment, October 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky and Zaki Shalom, 'Are the United States and Iran on a Collision Course?', INSS Insight, No. 291, October 31, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Day after the US Withdrawal from Iraq', INSS Insight, No. 288, October 23, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Saudi Arabia: Redrawing the Map of Regional Alliances', INSS Insight, No. 274, August 14, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, Gallia Lindenstrauss, and Jonathan Schachter, 'Power, Pirates, and Petroleum: Maritime Choke Points in the Middle East', Strategic Assesment, Volume 14, No. 2, July 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The GCC at 30: Shaking off the Dust?', INSS Insight, No. 258, May 22, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter, Iran vs. America', National Interest, May 11, 2011.

• Gallia Lindenstrauss and Yoel Guzansky, 'The Rise and (Future) Fall of a Turkish - Iranian Axis', Foreign Policy Research Institute, April 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, The Gulf and the "Arab Rage", INSS Insight, No. 244, March 6, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, “Made in Iran”: The Iranian Involvement in Iraq, Strategic Assessment, Volume 13, No. 4, January 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Tacit Allies: Israel and the Arab Gulf states', Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'A Family Affair: The Generational Turnover and the Stability of the Saudi Kingdom', INSS Insight, No. 229, December 5, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The arab gulf states and the Iranian nuclear challenge: in the line of fire', Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 4 (December 2010).

• Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter, 'Sudan on the Verge of Division? The Referendum, Oil, and Foreign Involvement', INSS Insight, No. 224, November 18, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Nature of the Radical Axis', Military and Strategic Affairs, Volume 2, No. 2, October 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Bahrain: An Island over Troubled Water', INSS Insight, No. 211, September 27, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, Iraq and the United States: The Required Long Term Strategic Partnership', INSS Insight, No. 207, September 15, 2010.

• Elran, Meir and Guzansky, Yoel, eds. Vision and Reality in the Middle East: Security Challenges of the 21st Century - Conference Proceedings, Memorandum No. 105, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, August 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Straits of Hormuz: Strategic Importance in Volatile Times', INSS Insight, No. 204, September 3, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky and Amir Kulick, The Failed State: Ramifications for Israel’s Strategic Environment', Strategic Assessment, Volume 13, No. 2, August 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Beyond the Nuclear and Terror Threats: The Conventional Military Balance in the Gulf', Strategic Assessment, Volume 13, No. 1, July 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Iranian Challenge: Synchronizing the Political and Technological Clocks', INSS Insight, No. 190, June 23, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky and Emily B. Landau, 'Friction in the Gulf: The Disputed Islands and Iran’s Push for Regional Hegemony', INSS Insight, No. 179, May 6, 2010.

• Jonathan Schachter, Yoel Guzansky and Yoram Schweitzer, 'Nuclear Terrorism: Threat to the Public or to Credibility?', INSS Insight, No. 178, April 28, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Saudi Nuclear Option', INSS Insight, No. 176, April 26, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Iraq: The Elections and their Aftermath', INSS Insight, No. 168, March 14, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter, 'Proxy War in the Arabian Peninsula', INSS Insight, No. 164, March 1, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Yemen: Profile of a Failed Arab State', INSS Insight, No. 156, January 12, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Business as Usual in the Persian Gulf: Results from the GCC Annual Summit', INSS Insight, No. 152, December 24, 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky, “The Forgotten War”: The US Withdrawal from Iraq, INSS Insight, No. 148, December 13, 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Naval Arena in the Struggle against Iran', INSS Insight, No. 146, December 3, 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Compromising on a Nuclear Iran', Strategic Assessment, Volume 12, No. 3, November 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky and Yoram Schweitzer, 'A New Wave of Terror in the Arabian Peninsula?', INSS Insight, No. 140, November 12, 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Israel and the Gulf States: A Thaw in Relations', INSS Insight, No. 133, September 29, 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Iraq’s Reintegration into the Arab World', INSS Insight, No. 130, September 16, 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Yemen's Increasing Importance in the Regional Struggle', INSS Insight, No. 128, September 9, 2009.

• Yoel Guzansky, ed., 'Studies in Deterrence', National Security College and National Defense College, 2008.

Op-Ed

• Yoel Guzansky and Erez Striem, 'Yemen: A Failed State After All', The Jewish Policy Center, Winter 2012.

• Yoel Guzansky and Gallia Lindenstrauss, 'Mission unaccomplished', The Jerusalem Post, 22 January 2012

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Saudi's Domino Stone', Haaretz (Hebrew), July 6, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Tehran Tests Saudis' Nerve on Nuclear Weapons', The Australian, July 1, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Jordan is joining the Club', MaarivNRG (Hebrew), June 3, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Ahmedinejad don’t go', Maariv (Hebrew), May 30. 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Riyadh: the Saudi bear as awaken', Israel Hayom (Hebrew), May 30. 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Gulf states take steps to greater role in security', The Australian, May 25, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Egypt and Iran brief honeymoon', Israel Hayom (Hebrew), 21 April 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Assad fall: is it good for us?', Maariv (Hebrew), 21 April 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky and Yoram Schweitzer, 'Obama’s Yemen challenge', Ynet, 29 March 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter, 'The official sport in the Middle East', Maariv (Hebrew), 2 March 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Is it possible to predict the collapse of regimes?', Maariv (Hebrew), 28 February 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Meanwhile in Yemen - a dangerous crash expected', Israel Hayom (Hebrew), 27 February 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Riots in Bahrain benefits Iran', Maariv (Hebrew), 21 February 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Is Iran next?', Maariv (Hebrew), 8.2.2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The limits of protest in the Arab world', Maariv (Hebrew), 2 February 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Iran: on the threshold', Haaretz (Hebrew), 31 January 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Sudan: the implications on Israel', Israel Hayom, 10.1.2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Iranian nuclear program: There are no magic solutions', Maariv (Hebrew), 5.1.2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'No news from Damascus', Maariv (Hebrew), 4.1.2011.

• Yoel Guzansky and Gallia Lindenstrauss, 'Iran and Turkey: Not necessarily partners', Maariv (Hebrew), 14.12.2010.

• Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter, 'Sanction on Iran: Bark or bite?', The Jerusalem Post, 7 December 2010.

• Jonathan Schachter and Yoel Guzansky, 'America's third Middle Eastern war', The Jerusalem Post, 11 November 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Made in Iran', Maariv (Hebrew), 3 November 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'How to dismantle the Iranian Axis?', Haaretz (Hebrew), 18 October 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'The Middle East's worst kept secret', The Jerusalem Post, 27 September 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Teheran's 'break-out' option', The Jerusalem Post, 4 August 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, [http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=182575 'The Gulf heats up', The Jerusalem Post, 25 July 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, 'To attack or not to attack Iran?', The Jerusalem Post, 1 July 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter, 'Lessons from a Proxy War', Haaretz, 12 March 2010.

• Nitzan Feldman and Yoel Guzansky, 'Iran Sanctions: Smart, maybe, but ineffective', Haaretz, 12 February 2010.

National and International Media

• Numerous interviews in IDF radio (Galei-Tzahal) "Retzuat Habitachon".

• Yoel Guzansky in "Israel push on Iran included a steady dose of media leaks", The Miami Herald, 7 March 2012

• Yoel Guzansky in "Qatar punches above its diplomatic weight", The Jerusalem Post, 8 March 2012

• Yoel Guzanksy in "Israel debate on Iran strike gains urgency", Financial Times, 3 February, 2012

• Emily B. Landau and Yoel Guzansky, "Time to Turn Screws on Iran", The Diplomat, 30 December 2011

• Yoel Guzansky and Benedetta Berti, "The Arab Spring's Violent Turn", The National Interest, 18 December 2011

• Yoel Guzansky, 'Saudi Arabia: A Geriatric Monarchy", Maariv NRG (Hebrew), 23 October 2011

• Yoel Guzansky, "Invisible Hand Sowing Doubt in campaign Against Nuclear Iran", The Australian, November 17, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, "Decision Time for the Iranian Leadership", Maariv NRG (Hebrew), 20 November 2011

• Yoel Guzansky, "From an Arab Spring to a Shia Winter", Maariv NRG (Hebrew), 16 October 2011

• Yoel Guzansky, "Saudi and Iran: The Gloves are off", Israel Hayom (Hebrew), 18 October 2011

• Yoel Guzansky and Jonathan Schachter, "Iran's Japanese Option: Arms within Arms' Reach", Jerusalem Post, 22 August, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, "Iran and the Straits of Hormuz", Israel Defense, July 12, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky in U.S. Denies Role in Iranian Nuclear Scientist's Assassination, Januray 11 2012

• Yoel Guzansky in Israel wertet iranische Drohgebärden als Anzeichen von Schwäche, 5 January 2012

• Yoel Guzansky and Emily B. Landau, "The Trick to Sabotaging Iran", The Diplomat, 9 December, 2011

• In "News Analysis: Israel fears Turkey may sacrifice ties for regional Goals", XINHUA, 5 September, 2011

• In "Mideast turmoil boosts oil routes threat", United Press International (UPI), October 6, 2011

• In "Middle East unrest makes perfect fodder for more piracy: Analysts", Times of India, 10 October 2011

• In "Ex-spymasters oppose Iran attack", The Financial Times, 11 November, 2011

• Yoel Guzansky in "Jordan to Open Talks on Joining Regional Bloc", The Financial Times, August 17, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky interviewed by Walla in:"Ofergate": all you wanted to know, June 1, 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, Gulf states take steps to greater role in security, The Australian, May 25, 2011.

• Numerous interviews in IDF radio (Galei-Tzahal).

• Yoel Guzansky interviewed by Financial Times in: The sabotaging of Iran, 11 February 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky in: South Sudan must balance foreign relations after split, Reuters, 11January 2011. and Kuwait Times 13 January 2011.

• Yoel Guzansky, in Saudi Princes Prepare For Power Struggle, Middle East Newsline, 8.12.2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, interviewed by Russia Today in: Troops show no pleasure with move to Afghanistan, 24 November, 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, interviewed by Bloomberg in: Turkey Denies Israeli Military Flight Air Access After Attack on Gaza Ship, 28 June 2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, in Saudis mull nuke option, Middle East Newsline, 29.4.2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, in GCC remains divided over Iran, Middle East Newsline, 17.1.2010.

• Yoel Guzansky, in Israel urged to expand naval option, Middle East Newsline, 7.12.2009.

Affiliations

• Institute for National Security Studies