Guy Ziv Associate Professor Foreign Policy & Global Security
- Additional Positions at AU
- Associate Director, Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies
- Degrees
- Ph.D, Government and Politics, University of Maryland; MA, Government and Politics, University of Maryland; MA, International Relations, University of Southern California; BA, Political Science, University of California at Irvine
- Bio
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Dr. Guy Ziv is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security at American University’s School of International Service and associate director of AU’s Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies. He teaches U.S. foreign policy, international negotiations, and courses on Israel.
He is the author of several books including Netanyahu vs The Generals: The Battle for Israel’s Future (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel (SUNY Press, 2014).
A recipient of multiple teaching and scholarship awards, including the SIS 2024-2025 Scholar-Teacher of the Year, Dr. Ziv brings a policy background from Capitol Hill and NGOs focused on Israeli-Palestinian peace. His work appears in both scholarly journals and major news sites, such as The Boston Globe, CNN.com, Haaretz, The New York Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today, and he is a frequent commentator on reputable media outlets including BBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Sky News, and Voice of America.
Follow him on Twitter at @ZivGuy.
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Teaching
Spring 2025
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SISU-230 Analysis of US Foreign Policy
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SISU-330 Topics in Foreign Pol/Natl Sec: Negotiating Global Challenges
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SISU-419 Senior Capstone: Int'l Studies: Neg Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Summer 2025
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SISU-103 Community of Scholars Topics: Diplomacy and Dictators
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SISU-230 Analysis of US Foreign Policy
Fall 2025
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SISU-230 Analysis of US Foreign Policy
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SISU-230 Analysis of US Foreign Policy
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SISU-330 Topics in Foreign Pol/Natl Sec: Negotiating Global Challenges
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
- "Military Reservists and the Resistance to Netanyahu's Legal Overhaul," Middle East Policy, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Summer 2025): 33-50.
- "From Populist Politician to Sober Statesman: Naftali Bennett's One-Year Premiership," Israel Studies Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 2025): 118-142.
- "Civil-Military Relations in the Age of Populist Nationalism: The Case of Israel," Political Science Quarterly (Spring 2024): 1-20.
- Netanyahu vs The Generals: The Battle for Israel's Future (Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
- "The Long Israeli-Palestinian Impasse: Is the 'One-State Solution' the Answer?" Journal of Peace and War Studies (October 2023): 19-35.
- "Nobody to Talk To: The Persistence of the 'No Partner' Mantra in Israeli Discourse," The Middle East Journal, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Autumn 2019): 335-375.
- "Benjamin Netanyahu's Calculated Ambiguity Toward the Two-State Solution," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 134, No. 2 (Summer 2019): 217-244.
- "A Near-Consensus: Israel's Security Establishment and the Two-State Solution" (co-authored with Benjamin L. Shaver), Survival, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Summer 2019): 115-138.
- U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump: Readings in U.S. Foreign Policy (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2017).
- "Foreign Policy Learning," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press (May 2017).
- "The Triumph of Agency Over Structure: Shimon Peres and the Israeli Nuclear Program," International Negotiation 20 (2015): 218-241.
- Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel, SUNY Press (December 2014).
- "Simple vs. Complex Learning Revisited: Israeli Prime Ministers and the Question of a Palestinian State," Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 2 (April 2013): 203-222.
- "Cognitive Structure and Foreign Policy Change: Israel's Decision to Talk to the PLO," International Relations, Vol. 25, No. 4 (December 2011): 426-454.
- "Shimon Peres and the French-Israeli Alliance, 1954-1959," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2010): 406-429.
- "To Disclose or Not to Disclose: The Impact of Nuclear Ambiguity on Israeli Security," Israel Studies Forum, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter 2007): 76-94.
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
SIS Scholar-Teacher of the Year, 2024-25
SIS Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative and Other Professional Contributions Award, 2024
William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2019
SIS Outstanding Teaching Award, 2014
Professional Presentations
Netanyahu vs The Generals Book Tour:
- Northwestern University, Chicago, IL - 3/5/25
- Duke University, Durham, NC - 2/11/25
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - 1/27/25
- University of Oregon, Eugene, OR - 11/20/24
- Private Event, Santa Ana, CA - 10/20/24
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - 9/12/24
- Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic - 7/1/24
- Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany - 6/18/24
- University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria - 6/18/24
- Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany - 6/13/24
- Georgetown University, Washington, DC - 4/18/24
- Concordia University, Montreal, Canada - 3/25/24
- American University, Washington, DC - 3/20/24
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD - 3/7/24
- New York University, New York, NY - 2/29/24
- UCLA, Los Angeles, CA - 2/27/24
- Yale University, New Haven, CT - 2/12/24
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH - 2/1/24
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - 10/3/23