Natan Sachs is a fellow in and director of the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. His work focuses on Israeli foreign policy, domestic politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S.-Israeli relations. He is currently writing a book on Israeli grand strategy and its domestic origins.
Sachs has taught on the Arab-Israeli conflict at Georgetown University’s Department of Government, and research design for the Security Studies Program at Georgetown. Previously, Sachs was a Fulbright fellow in Indonesia, where his research included an empirical study of the behavioral effects of Islamic and national identities. He was subsequently a Hewlett fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
Sachs earned a bachelor’s degree in the Amirim Excellence program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a master’s and doctorate in political science from Stanford University.
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- Topics
- Israel
- Programs
- Foreign Policy
- Centers
- Center for Middle East Policy
- Additional Expertise Areas
- Israeli politics and society
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Politics of religion and identity
- Indonesia
- Past Positions
- Hewlett Pre-doctoral Fellow, Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
- Fulbright Fellow, Indonesia
- Education
- Ph.D. and M.A., Stanford University
- B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
