Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, founded in 1977, (as the Center for Strategic Studies at the initiative of Tel Aviv University. It added the word 'Jaffee in 1983 in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Jaffee. It was a key Israeli think tank in the 1980s and was also central to the international Invisible College or terrorism think tanks and institutes. It is now known as the Institute for National Security Studies after being absorbed in October 2006.
In its former incarnation it employed a number of people who are now connected to neoconservative networks such as Dore Gold.
According to the account of Edward Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, the 'most important' institute addressing the issue of terrorism in Israel in the 1980s was 'the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, which is affiliated with the University of Tel Aviv. Its links to the government include its head, Major General Aharon Yariv, former director of Israeli intelligence, and editorial board members Brigadier General Aryeh Shalev and Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin. Walter Laqueur of CSIS and JINSA is also on the editorial board.'[1]
Herman and O'Sullivan note:
- The center sponsors books, monographs, and conferences on a number of subjects, with a strong emphasis on terrorism. It has provided a base for Dr. Ariel Merari, one of Israel's leading analysts of terrorism and coauthor, with Shlomi Elad, of 'The International Dimension of Palestinian Terrorism' (Westview, 1986). [...] The center's 1979 conference on terrorism in Tel Aviv attracted an international group, including Brian Jenkins, J. Bowyer Bell, Yonah Alexander, and Robert Kupperman from the United States, Robert Moss and Paul Wilkinson from Great Britain, and Hans Joseph Horchem from West Germany. There was no departure in the published record of the conference from the Western format and identification of terrorists and victims. Its most interesting feature was the fact that twenty-one of the forty-six participants were state officials.[2]
Staff
Shai Feldman: Director 1997-2005[3] | Zvi Shtauber: Director 2005-2008
Funding
In 2007 the Center carried the following information about funding on its website:
- The JCSS budget is based largely on the annual interest that accrues from an endowment fund established by the Association of American Friends of Tel Aviv University from contributions made primarily by the Jewish community of the United States. This is supplemented by foundation support and contributions dedicated to specific projects In this way JCSS seeks to ensure for itself the financial independence necessary for its research and other activities.[4]
Resources
Contact
- Internet Archive holdings of tau.ac.il/jcss/ 1997-2007.
Powerbase
- Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
- Terrorexpertise:Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
Notes
- ↑ The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, New York: Pantheon, 1989.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Staff: Shai Feldman, RUSI, accessed 6 August 2012
- ↑ JCSS About JCSS Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 15 July 2007 on 3 April 2015.
