Amichai Magen

Member of the Executive

Dr. Amichai Magen is a Senior Researcher and Head of Political Development at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT), The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Between May 2009 and May 2011 Dr. Magen was Director of the Institute for Democracy, Law and Diplomacy, and Associate Fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem. Between 2005 and 2009, Dr. Magen was a Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School, and a Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Freeman-Spogli Institute (FSI), Stanford University.

In 2008 he became the first Israeli to receive the prestigious National Fellow award at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2002 he received the Yitzhak Rabin Fulbright Award. Between 1999 and 2002 he served as a legal and policy adviser at the Ministry of Justice, Israel, and prior to that he was an IDF Officer in Gaza. Amichai Magen was admitted as a member of the Israel Bar Association in 2000. Dr. Magen is a Member of the American Society of International law (ASIL); the American Political Science Association (APSA); and the European Union Studies Association (EUSA).

His current research and teaching focuses on the growing challenge of weak and failed states in the Middle East, legal and policy aspects of dealing with armed Non-State Actors, democratization and alternatives to sovereignty. He is an occasional commentator for Israeli and international newspapers, radio and television.