Dr Jonathan Fine
Dr. Jonathan Fine is the undergraduate advisor of both, the international program in Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Rapahel Recanati International School and the Lauder Government School at the IDC (the interdisciplinary center, Herzlyia, Israel) and a fellow researcher at the ICT (The International Institute for Counter Terrorism). He also teaches at the IDC Argov honors program, and was recently appointed as the academic advisor to the joint program between the IDC and the Maxwell Government School at the University of Syracuse USA. He is a member of ICTAC (the International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community) and a former strategic advisor on arms control and conflict resolution to the IDF.
Dr. Fine received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a graduate of the Executive Course in Counter Terrorism at the ICT, and the special program in Intelligence Services and International Security sponsored by the University of Cartagena in Spain. He is also an ordained Conservative Rabbi and a graduate of the Solomon Shechter Institute for Religion and Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He has a wide background in History, Comparative Religion, Political Science and International Relations, and specializes in comparative politics with special emphasis on the transition from secular agenda political violence to religious agenda political violence, focusing on both global and regional perspectives, with special emphasis on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their concept of Holy War. He is also an expert on the Middle East and Israeli Studies, with special emphasis on the transition from colonial rule to independence, focusing on government structures, on a comparative regional level.
Dr. Fine published in numerous academic journals such as the Middle East Quarterly in Washington and Middle Eastern Studies in London and has several chapters in books, both in Israel and abroad. His first book dealt with the establishment of the Israeli governmental system, and his second book which is forthcoming in the Texas University Press at Austin, is titled: "Holy War in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – a Comparative Analysis: Past & Present".
Dr. Fine has been a visiting Professor to both, academic and government agencies around the world on behalf of the IDC and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in The US, Europe, Latin America, The Russian Federation, and South Africa, where he was also interviewed by the local media. Among other places, he has lectured at Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School for Foreign Service in Washington D.C., Chicago University Harris School of Government, Minnesota University's Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public affairs, Layola University - Chicago, The Sam Nunn School for International Affairs, Georgia, the Universities of Calgary, Carlton, and Queens in Canada, the University of Leipzig in Germany, the University of Cartagena in Spain, ITAM University in Mexico, and the universities of Belgrano, UADE, and Cordoba, in Argentina.
