Dr. Eitan Barak’s is a faculty member at the Program in Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security (SDS), the Shalem College.
Prior to joining the Program, Dr. Barak was a long-time member of the faculty of the Department of International Relations and a senior researcher in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Dr. Barak was a Fulbright postdoctoral grantee in the International Security Program at Harvard and a visiting scholar at the Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member in various Israeli academic institutions throughout the years and was on the academic staff of the Hebrew University’s Rothberg International school.
He has published numerous articles, on the possibility of implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in the Middle East, Israel's policy towards the CWC, the feasibility of peacekeeping forces in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israel’s freedom of navigation and overflight over the Straits of Tiran. As a jurist, Dr. Barak has published, a monograph on the legality of flechette weapons under Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and articles on the legality of cluster munitions.