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Formerly he worked at the [[Moshe Dayan Centre]] for 25 years eventually becoming director.<ref>Elliot Jager,[http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Article.aspx?id=157055 A Progressive First From a Conservative Think Tank,] Jerusalem Post, accessed June 14, 2012</ref>
 
Formerly he worked at the [[Moshe Dayan Centre]] for 25 years eventually becoming director.<ref>Elliot Jager,[http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Article.aspx?id=157055 A Progressive First From a Conservative Think Tank,] Jerusalem Post, accessed June 14, 2012</ref>
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At the [[Tenth Herzliya Connference]] in 2010 Kramer gave a short speech in which he linked population growth and especially a large proportion of young men in a society with radicalization and violent extremism, saying this could be countered "faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies for Palestinians with refugee status." <ref>[http://www.martinkramer.org/sandbox/2010/02/superfluous-young-men/ Superfluous Young Men,] MartinKramer.org, accessed June 14 2012</ref>
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==

Revision as of 18:59, 14 June 2012

Martin Kramer is an analyst working at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, since 2002. He is also in a senior position at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Centre,since 2006. He has also been affiliated with the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, since 2007[1]

He is the co-convener of Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), since 2007. He is also been an Administrator of The Washington Institute Book Prize, since 2008[2]

Formerly he worked at the Moshe Dayan Centre for 25 years eventually becoming director.[3]

Comments about aid to Palestinians

At the Tenth Herzliya Connference in 2010 Kramer gave a short speech in which he linked population growth and especially a large proportion of young men in a society with radicalization and violent extremism, saying this could be countered "faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies for Palestinians with refugee status." [4]

Publications

  • Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. 250 pp.
  • Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996; paperback, 2008. 297 pp.
  • Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Washington: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001. 137 pp.
  • Protest and Revolution in Shi’i Islam. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 1985; second printing, 1987. 156 pp. [in Hebrew].
  • Shi‘ism, Resistance, and Revolution. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; London: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1987. 324 pp. Access via Questia (full text).
  • Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991. 168 pp.
  • The Islamism Debate (Dayan Center Papers, no. 120). Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1997. 178 pp.
  • The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis. Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999. 311 pp.

Affiliations

Democracy and Security International Conference, Attendee [5] | Middle East Review of International Affairs (based at IDC), editorial board | International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom, conference participant [6] |

Notes

  1. Martin Kramer on The Middle East, www.martinkramer.org, Personal CV, Accessed 01-March-2009
  2. Martin Kramer on The Middle East, www.martinkramer.org, Personal CV, Accessed 01-March-2009
  3. Elliot Jager,A Progressive First From a Conservative Think Tank, Jerusalem Post, accessed June 14, 2012
  4. Superfluous Young Men, MartinKramer.org, accessed June 14 2012
  5. Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009
  6. Text of Conference Invite Email