Alan Dowty is Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

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. He was formerly Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary

University of Calgary

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, 2003-2006, and President of the Association for Israel Studies, 2005-2007.

Dowty acquired a B.A. from Shimer College

Shimer College

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 (1959) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 (1963). He returned to Shimer to teach for a time in 1966, and as of 2010 is the vice president of the Shimer College Alumni Association.

His recent work focuses on Israeli politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Ira Sharkansky of The Hebrew University calls Dowty's "The Jewish State: A Century Later," "the most thorough and sensitive assessment of Israel's democracy that I have seen."

Publications

• The Limits of American Isolation, (New York University Press, 1971)
• Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973, (University of California Press
  University of California Press
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  , 1984)
• Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement, (Yale University Press
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  , 1987)
• The Jewish State: A Century Later, (University of California Press
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  , 1998, 2001)
• Israel/Palestine, (Polity Press, 2005, 2008)