Natan Sachs

Natan Sachs is a fellow in and director of the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. His work focuses on Israeli foreign policy, domestic politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S.-Israeli relations. He is currently writing a book on Israeli grand strategy and its domestic origins.

Sachs has taught on the Arab-Israeli conflict at Georgetown University's Department of Government, and research design for the Security Studies Program at Georgetown. Previously, Sachs was a Fulbright fellow in Indonesia, where his research included an empirical study of the behavioral effects of Islamic and national identities. He was subsequently a Hewlett fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

Sachs earned a bachelor's degree in the Amirim Excellence program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a master's and doctorate in political science from Stanford University.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. and M.A., Stanford University
• B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem

ADDITIONAL EXPERTISE AREAS

• Israeli politics and society
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Politics of religion and identity
• Indonesia

PAST POSITIONS

• Hewlett Pre-doctoral Fellow, Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
• Fulbright Fellow, Indonesia