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Professor Avner Cohen
 Dr. Avner Cohen is a Senior Fellow at the Washington Office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Prior to that, he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2009-10). Since 2000, he has been also affiliated with the Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM) at the University of Maryland. Dr. Cohen is also on J-Street Advisory Board.
Dr. Cohen is an internationally recognized author and expert on non-proliferation issues, with special interest in the Middle East. He has been a consultant to various NGO and governmental agencies.
After undergraduate study at Tel Aviv University in Philosophy and History (1975), Cohen earned his M.A. in Philosophy at York University (1977) and Ph.D. from the Committee on History of Culture of the University of Chicago (1981). Cohen was a member of the philosophy department at Tel Aviv University from 1983 to 1991 and has been a visiting professor at various American universities. In 2005 he was the Forchheimer Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University. He teaches as an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, which has become in 2010 the graduate school of Middlebury College,
Dr. Cohen won twice the research and writing award of the MacArthur Foundation (1990, 2004). In 2007-08 and 1997-98 Cohen was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Dr. Cohen was co-director of the Project on Nuclear Arms Control in the Middle East at the Security Studies Program at MIT for five years (1990-95).
Dr. Cohen is the co-editor of Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity (Rowman & Allanheld, 1986), The Institution of Philosophy (Open Court, 1989), and the author of The Nuclear Age as Moral History (in Hebrew, 1989). His most recognized book, Israel and the Bomb, was published in 1998 in its English version and in 2000 in its Hebrew version. His new book The Worst Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb will be published in October by Columbia University Press.
Dr. Cohen has published dozens of articles and chapters in academic journals and books, as well as over a hundred of op-ed pieces in major newspapers in the United States and Israel.
Dr. Cohen has made numerous appearances in the media, including NPR, NBC News, BBC, CBC, History Channel, Israeli TV and radio, Norwegian TV, Al Jazeera Network, as well as in various documentaries (BBC, the History Channel, PBS, etc).
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