International Activities Lauder School of Government Diplomacy Strategy

International Activities: Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy

Shanghai Academic Ranking The Lauder School is ranked among the leading 150 schools of Political Science in the world and 3 rd in Israel together with Bar-Ilan University

Pennsylvania University Global Go To Think Tank Index The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) – one of the think tanks of the Lauder School of Government - is ranked 40 th in the Middle East and North Africa, and 8 th in Israel in the Pennsylvania University Global Go To Think Tank Index 2. Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) (Israel) 7. Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel) 14. Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) (Israel) 20. Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (Israel) 25. Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Israel) 27. Reut Institute (Israel) 39. Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies (Israel) 40. International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) (Israel) 41. Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (ICSEP) (Israel) 47. Taub Center for Social Policy Studies(Israel) 51. Arava Institute (Israel) 55. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (VLJI) (Israel) 56. Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research (Israel) 60. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) (Israel) 74. Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research (Israel) 82. Avinoam Bar-Yosef President JPPI (Israel) 84. Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies (Israel) 87. Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (Israel)

Horizon 2020 Grants The EU’s Framework Program for Research & Development • The EU’s biggest program for the enhancement of scientific and industrial cooperation. • The program grants funding for the formation of consortiums together with European partners for R&D activities held by academic institutes, industry, think tanks, private and public institutions, etc. • The Lauder School and its Institutes were awarded four grants in the last two years. The ICT has won 2 Horizon 2020 grants in 2017: 1) RED-ALERT - The project focuses on early detection of Internet radicalization processes and technological system to drive such recognition. This 3 year project will feature several LEAs, research centres as well as technology companies. 2) TRIVALENT- focuses on developing interdisciplinary research-based models serving as indicators for the radicalization process and creates the best messages to counter it. This project will also last for 3 years and will feature LEAs and European universities.

Horizon 2020 Grants The EU’s framework program for Research & Development Lauder School teams headed by Dr Amichai Magen have won 2 grants in 2017: 1) EULISCO- deals with the need of Western Democracies to adapt their policies and trade relations in light if the rise of ‘Failed States’ and non-State actors in the Middle-East and the return of an international geo-strategic rivalry, challenging the western-liberal order. 2) Reconnect- deals with the Democracy and Rule of Law crisis in the free world as well as with the need to renew liberalism while accommodating the changing economic, technological and cultural reality of the 21 century.

Alumni of the Lauder School The Lauder School was founded in 2000 1, 154 Graduate Alumni 37 alumni in our distinguished MA with Thesis program Dozens of Ph. D students in world leading universities, some of whom have already completed their studies and have returned to IDC as lecturers.

Internships in leading institutions Three months Internship in the United States Congress Students’ Internship at the Israeli Delegation to the United Nations

World Renown Visiting Lecturers at the Lauder School • Prof. Amb. Dan Kurtzer (Princeton University) – U. S Foreign Policy in the Middle East • Dr. Errol Southers (University of Southern California) – Introduction to Homeland Security • Prof. Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University) – Issues in Counter-Terrorism & Challenges to HLS • Mr. Brian Jenkins (RAND Corporation) – Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the Terrorism Threat • Prof. Patrick James (University of Southern California) – Religion & Politics • Prof. Dan Byman (Georgetown University) – U. S Foreign Policy and Counter-Terrorism

International Conferences • The Lauder School, through its Research Centers, hosts two international conferences: The Annual Herzliya Conference & the World Summit on Counter Terrorism, which attract hundreds of world experts, decision-makers and leading academic researchers. • The School holds 10 -15 conferences and workshops every year, led by faculty members and international experts. • The school’s faculty members often present their research in conferences held worldwide.

Exchange Programs • The Lauder School hosts dozens of international students for BA and MA courses, as part of our student Exchange Programs. • Dozens of international students from leading Universities intern every year at the school’s Research Centers. • As part of the ongoing strategic cooperation between the Lauder School and the Maxwell School of Government at Syracuse University, a delegation of students is studying at the Lauder School every summer, while a Lauder School delegation is sent for a period of 3 weeks to the Maxwell School. • The School’s Honors Programs hold annual study tours to the US, Europe and China as part of their curriculum. • As part of the MA program in Governemnt, a group of selected students go on an annual study tour to the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Recently published books by Lauder School’s Faculty members with leading academic publishers Prof. Shaul Mishal and Dr. Ori Goldberg. Cambridge University Press Dr. Amnon Cavari, Prof. Richard Powell & Lexington Books Prof. Boaz Ganor Columbia University Press Prof. Assaf Moghadam Columbia University Press Prof. Dima Adamsky Stanford University Press Dr. Liza Ireni-Saban State University of New York Press Prof. Asif Efrat Oxford University Press Dr. Daphné Richemond. Barak Oxford University Press Prof. Alex Mintz & Prof. Karl De. Rouen Cambridge University Press Prof. Alex Mintz & Carly Wayne Stanford University Press

Prizes for the best academic works on Israeli security Research team on UN Working international Groups disaster Hoover Institute management. Strategy & Security Crisis Management IPS’s General Director Intelligence Editorial Board Member, Perspectives on Terrorism ICT’s General Director Collaborative Research with Brigham Young University Negotiation Information School at University of Washington Governance Public Diplomacy Editorial board on 11 international journals RRIS Government Coordinator Terrorism Conflict Resolution Social Innovation for Local Indian and Israeli Communities European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Israel-Germany strategic dialogue Developing Countries Decision Making ICT’s Deputy director Immigration PI Grant on Leadership in Israel’s Local Arab Government Joint research on Hrad of Abba transnational Eban Institute litigation – for International Georgetown U. Diplomacy Political Violence Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Consultant at the World Bank Hoover Institution, Stanford University International Relations Member of the Monetary Committee of the Bank of Israel. Head of ICT’s IHL desk Economy International Law