The Regional and Global Significance of the War in the Middle East – A Strategic Overview

19.05.2026

A discussion with Dr Dan Schueftan, a leading Israeli security expert, veteran of Israeli politics and former advisor to prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon, on the current conflict in the Middle East and its regional and global consequences. The discussion was moderated by Tomáš Pojar

Dr. Dan Schueftan is the Head of the International Graduate Program in National Security Studies at the University of Haifa, the former Director of the National Security Studies Center at that University (2008-2018). He worked also as a Visiting Professor (2012-2014) at the Department of Government at Georgetown University in Washington DC and a lecturer at the Israel Defense Forces National Defense College. For the last five decades he has been a consultant to Israeli decision makers and to the top echelon of Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office, Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, the IDF, the intelligence community and The National Security Council.

Dr. Schueftan has published extensively on national security, strategic thinking and contemporary Middle Eastern history, with emphasis on Arab-Israeli relations, Inter-Arab politics and American policy in the Middle East. His books cover a wide variety of topics: A Jordanian Option – Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians (1986); Attrition: Egypt’s Post War Political Strategy 1967-1970 (1989); Disengagement – Israel and the Palestinian Entity (1999). This last book, advocating unilateral disengagement, had a considerable effect on Israeli policy makers. Palestinians in Israel – the Arab Minority and the Jewish State (2011) and The Israel-Arab Reader – A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (co-edited with Walter Laqueur, (2016). Dr. Schueftan’s most recent book are: Israel’s National Objectives – A Comprehensive Perspective (2021) and The Rise and Fall of the Pan-Arab Struggle against Israel – the Yom Kippur War as its “Beginning of the End” (2024), both published by the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Interview with Dan Schueftan for AKTUALNE

Interview for Czech Television

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