Anat Kurz

Anat Kurz of the INSS in a photo from the INSS website. Accessed 22 November 2012.

Anat Kurz is Director of Research and a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. Kurz has taught in the Security Studies Program of the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University.

Education

Kurz holds an MA degree in social Psychology and a PhD in political science from Tel Aviv University.

Current Activities

Kurz is currently Director of Research and a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. Kurz's specialist research fields include Terror: organizations, strategy; Terror: Islamic fundamentalism and Terror: Hizbollah & Iran.

Publications

• Kurz, Anat, Israel and the Palestinian Authority: When Parallel Lines Might Converge , Strategic Assessment, Volume 14, No. 4, January 2012.
• Kurz, Anat, The Political Process Entangled in the Triangular Gordian Knot, Strategic Assessment, Vol. 13, No. 3, October 2010.
• Kurz, Anat, A Repeat Performance: Hamas, Israel, and the Political Process, INSS Insight, No. 195, August 4, 2010.
• Kurz, Anat, The Sixth Fatah Convention: Formal Changes Only. Strategic Assessment, Volume 12, No. 3, November 2009.
• Kurz, Anat, “Nothing is Agreed until Everything is Agreed”: The Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue, in: Brom, Shlomo and Kurz, Anat, (Editors), Strategic Survey for Israel 2009, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2009.
• Kurz, Anat, The Palestinian Uprisings: War with Israel, War at Home, Memorandum No. 98, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, April 2009.
• Kurz, Anat, Between Hamas and Fatah: Implications of Operation Cast Lead, Strategic Assessment, Volume 11, No. 4, February 2009.
• Kurz, Anat, The Israeli-Palestinian Arena: Dynamic Stagnation in The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007-2008, ed. Mark A. Heller, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2008.
• Kurz, Anat, The Gaza Ceasefire: A Political Window of Opportunity?, INSS Inisght, No. 60, June 25, 2008.
• Kurz, Anat, The Palestinian Uprisings: Struggle on Two Fronts, Memorandum No. 95, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, August 2008 (Hebrew).
• Kurz, Anat, First We Take the West Bank…?, INSS Insight, No. 23, June 24 2007.
• Kurz, Anat, The Riyadh Summit, the Mecca Agreement and What Lies Between Them, INSS Insight, No. 15, April 22 2007.
• Kurz, Anat, The Israeli-Palestinian Arena: Straddling Escalation and Calm, Strategic Assessment, Vol. 9, No. 4, March 2007.
• Kurz, Anat, Ceasefire, For the Moment, INSS Insight, No. 2, December 7 2006.
• Kurz, Anat, Hizbullah – (again) at a Crossroads, Tel Aviv Notes No. 178, July 18 2006.
• Kurz, Anat, The Proposal for a Palestinian Referendum: Who’s the Boss?, Tel Aviv Notes No. 174, June 18 2006.
• Kurz, Anat, Fatah's Electoral Defeat: The End of Inertia, Strategic Assessment, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2006.
• Kurz, Anat, Continuity and Change: Israel and the Palestinian Authority after the Victory of Hamas, Tel Aviv Notes No. 161, February 20 2006.
• Kurz, Anat, Democratization in the Palestinian Authority: Hamas Now, Peace Later in: Zvi Shtauber and Yiftah S. Shapir, eds., The Middle East Strategic Balance 2005-2006, Sussex Academic Press (Brighton) and Institute for National Security, (Tel Aviv), 2006.
• Kurz, Anat, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Next Round, Tel Aviv Notes No. 137, June 9 2005.
• Kurz, Anat, Non-Conventional Terrorism: Availability and Motivation, Strategic Assessment, Vol. 7, No. 4, March 2005.
• Kurz, Anat, Consequences of Democratization in the Palestinian Authority, Tel Aviv Notes No. 133, May 15 2005.
• Kurz, Anat, Fatah and the Politics of Violence, The Institutionalization of a Popular Struggle, Sussex Academic Press (Brighton) and Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, (Tel Aviv), 2005.
• Kurz, Anat, The Intifada: The Dynamics of Ongoing Crisis in: Shlomo Brom and Yiftah S. Shapir, eds., The Middle East Strategic Balance 2003-2004, Sussex Academic Press (Brighton) and Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, (Tel Aviv), 2004.

Affiliations

• Institute for National Security Studies
• Tel Aviv University