Alex Mintz

Alex Mintz

Alex Mintz at IDC Herzliya
Born (1953-04-02) April 2, 1953
Alma mater Tel Aviv University
Northwestern University
Occupation Political scientist

Professor Alex Mintz (born April 2, 1953), Chairman of the Israeli Political Science Association, is Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya. He served as Chair of the Herzliya Conference series from 2014-2016 and as Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at IDC from 2008-2014.

Professor Mintz is editorial board member of the journals, American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Perspective, Open Political Science Journal, Advances in Political Psychology, and Research and Politics. He also served as editor-in-chief of the international journal, Political Psychology (2010-2015), as Associate Editor of the Yale-based. Journal of Conflict Resolution (2004-2009), and as editor of the University of Chicago Press book series in Leadership and Decision Making in the International Arena (until 2012).

Education

Mintz received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University in political science with a minor in mathematics. He then went on to receive a M.A. from Northwestern University in political science before pursuing his PhD, also at Northwestern. His research interests focus on political decision making, political psychology, strategy, political marketing, and research methods.

Career

Mintz was an instructor at Northwestern University and a senior lecturer with tenure at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then taught at Texas A&M University. In 1993 he became the founding director of the Program in Foreign Policy Decision Making at Texas A&M University and remained there as the Cullen-McFadden Professor until 2005. He was a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia University, the Lyndon Johnson School at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Haifa, and Tel Aviv University. He moved to IDC Herzliya in Israel in 2006 as a professor, before becoming the dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in 2008.

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