Tamir Libel
Research Fellow
Political Studies
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Spain
Biography
Dr. Tamir Libel is a Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow (A Marie Curie COFUND programme) at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin (UCD). He was formerly a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRE) at UCD, and a visiting scholar at both the Department of Political Science at the University of Trier and the Department of History at the University of Marburg in Germany. He received his PhD in Political Science from Bar Ilan University, Israel. He specialises in international relations, European studies and security studies with a geographical focus on Europe, North America and the wider Middle East. His articles on these topics were published in peer-reviewed journals such as RUSI Journal, Defense & Security Analysis, Journal of Intelligence History and Defence Studies. He is also the co-editor of Between the Yarmulke and Beret: Religion, Politics and the Military in Israel (2012, in Hebrew), and his book European Military Culture and Security Governance: Soldiers, Scholars and National Defence Universities was published by Routledge in March 2016.
Research Interest
Defense, Security Analysis, Armed Forces, Society, Mediterranean Politics
Publications
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Gal, R; Libel, Tamir.2015Between military–society and religion–military relations: different aspects of the growing religiosity in the Israeli defense forcesDefense & Security Analysis,31(3):213-227
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Libel, Tamir.2016Explaining the security paradigm shift: strategic culture, epistemic communities, and Israel’s changing national security policyDefence Studies,16(2):137-156
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Libel, Tamir2016European Military Culture and Security Governance: Soldiers, Scholars and National Defence Universities.Routledge
