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Tal Sadeh
I am associate professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs of Tel Aviv University, and head of its EU Studies Program.
I hold a PhD in International Relations and an MA degree in Economics, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
My recent research and teaching interests include international political economy, in particular the politics of finance, and the political economy of the EU.
I published a book on Sustaining European Monetary Union and I have published articles and edited special issues in leading academic journals.
In 2013-15, and since 2021 I am Co-President of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration. In 2012-2014 I was head of the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University. In previous years I also held executive positions in the European Union Studies Association and in Israeli Association for International Studies.
אני פרופסור חבר בבית הספר למדע המדינה, ממשל ויחסים בינלאומיים של אוניברסיטת תל אביב, וראש התוכנית ללימודי האיחוד האירופי. שם
אני בעל תואר שלישי ביחסים בינלאומיים ותואר שני בכלכלה, שניהם מהאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים.
תחומי המחקר וההוראה שלי כוללים כלכלה פוליטית בינלאומית, בפרט הפוליטיקה של מימון, והכלכלה הפוליטית של האיחוד האירופי.
פרסמתי ספר על האיחוד המוניטרי האירופי ופרסמתי מאמרים וערכתי גליונות מיוחדים בכתבי עת אקדמיים מובילים.
בשנים 2013-15, ומאז 2021 אני נשיא שותף של האגודה הישראלית לחקר האינטגרציה האירופית. בשנים 2012-2014 עמדתי בראש בית הספר הרולד הרטוג לממשל ומדיניות באוניברסיטת תל אביב. בשנים קודמות שימשתי גם בתפקידי ניהול באיגוד ללימודי האיחוד האירופי ובאגודה הישראלית ללימודים בינלאומיים.
Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu is an adjunct professor at the European Forum and at the Public Policy School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in the European Studies program at Tel Aviv University.
Since 2020 she is the Director of Program on Israel – Europe Relations at Mitvim, The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies.
She has a PhD in European Studies and Political Science (Comparative Politics) in the field of differentiated integration, comparing all case studies of opt-outs. She holds a BA in International Relations and MA in Public Policy, Administration and Law, specializing in European Affairs.
Maya won the European Commission Jean Monnet Module competitive grant, was a visiting doctoral student at the Vrije University Brussels and a post-doctoral fellow at the European Forum. In addition, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna and was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu is a member of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI) Executive Committee since 2005, and was it's Co-President between 2016-2021.
Dr. Angelos Giannakopoulos is DAAD-Professor of European Studies in the Middle East, based at Tel Aviv University. From 2020 to 2025 he was a DAAD-Professor for German- and European Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. From 2013 to 2019, he was again a DAAD-Professor for European Studies in the Middle East. From 2002 to 2011, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He also taught at the Universities of Erfurt and Tübingen. From 2012 to 2013, he was an ordinary Professor of Sociology at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. He has also been a visiting professor in Cyprus and Hungary. He has been a visiting scholar or research fellow at Yale University, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, the Hellenic Center for European Studies in Athens, the Europa Institute in Budapest, the European Documentary Centre at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, the Alfred Schütz Archive at Waseda University in Tokyo, etc. He completed his habilitation (postdoctoral degree) at the University of Dortmund, his PhD in sociology at the University of Tübingen and his master’s degree in political science at the University of Athens. He is particularly interested in understanding current socio-political issues from a comparative and transnational perspective. He has conducted research in the areas of European integration and enlargement, politics of memory and inter-state conflict, modernisation and secularisation, corruption and anti-corruption, social inclusion and exclusion, freedom of media, energy conflicts and
strategies, etc. His books include: “Tradition and Modernity in Greece. Fields of Conflict in Religion, Politics and Culture”, “The Debate on Turkey in Europe”, “Europe-Turkey-Identity. The ‘Eternal Candidate’ and the EU since the Customs Union”, “The Social Construction of Corruption in Europe”, “Energy Cooperation and Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: a Seismic Shift towards Peace or Conflict?”, “Solidarity in the European Union: Challenges and Perspectives”, “Media, Freedom of Speech and Democracy in Europe and beyond”, “Politics of Memory and War: From Russia to the Middle East”.
Dr. Jori Breslawski's research lies at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, and primarily engages with topics of governance by non-state armed groups and aid in conflict. Her research uses a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate a wide array of questions in political violence, leveraging survey experiments, interviews, and statistical analysis. Jori received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and her B.A. in Psychology & French from SUNY Buffalo. Prior to joining TAU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University and an affiliated fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian studies.
