, where she gained a PhD. She later headed the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the university.

Political career

In 1985 she was a member of the Israeli delegation to the UN

United Nations

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 Conference on Women in Nairobi, and in 1995 to the Fourth World Conference on Women

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 in Beijing. She served as president of the Israeli branch of the Society for International Development, was a founder and member of the board of the Israel Women's Network, and has served as Vice President of the International Association of Political Science.

In 1992

Israeli legislative election, 1992

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 she was elected to the Knesset on the Meretz list. She retained her seat in the 1996 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1996

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 and was made a Deputy Speaker. She was re-elected again in 1999 and remained a Deputy Speaker until losing her seat in the 2003 elections.

Published works

Chazan is the author, co-author and editor of eight books and 56 articles in academic journal

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s on comparative

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 (especially African) and Israeli politics

Politics of Israel

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.

• An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics: Managing Political Recession, 1969-1982 (Westview Press, 1983, ISBN 086531439X)
• Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty (Westview Press, 1986, ISBN 0865313695), with Deborah Pellow
• Coping with Africa’s Food Crisis (Lynne Rienner Publishers
  Lynne Rienner Publishers
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  , 1988, ISBN 0931477840), with Timothy M. Shaw
• The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (Westview Press, 1988, ISBN 0813309689), with Donald Rothchild
• Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0333468384), with Robert Mortimer, John Ravenhill, and Donald Rothchild; reprinted 1992 (ISBN 1555872832) and 1999 (ISBN 155587679X)
• Irredentism and International Politics (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991, ISBN 1555872212), edited volume
• Civil Society and the State in Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994, ISBN 155587360X), edited with John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild
• The Early State in African Perspective: Culture, Power and Division of Labor (Brill Academic Publishers, 1997, ISBN 9004083553), edited with S.N. Eisenstadt and Michel Abitbol

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