Azriel Bermant Senior Researcher

Azriel Bermant is a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His work has focused on British foreign policy, Europe-Israel relations, transatlantic relations, regional security, arms control, nuclear deterrence and nuclear proliferation. He comments on the topics in the media. 

He is a member of the Middle East and African Politics Unit of the Centre for the Study of Global Regions at the institute. 

He holds a PhD in diplomatic history from University College London and an MA in international relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has lectured in international Relations at Tel Aviv University and at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a research fellow in security studies at the University of Nottingham between 2018 and 2019, and a research fellow in the arms control and regional security programme at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, between 2012 and 2015.  

He is the author of Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East (2016, Cambridge University Press). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.