Shlomo
Avineri is a Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He has also served as Director of Eshkol Research Institute (1971-74);
Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences (1974-76); Director-General of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1976-77); and Director of the Institute for
European Studies (1997 to present). Dr. Avineri has had numerous visiting
appointments including Yale University; Wesleyan University; Australian
National University; Cornell University; University of California; Queen's
College; and Oxford. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wilson Center
and Brookings Institute in Washington, DC and at the Institute of World
Economics and International Relations in Moscow. Dr. Avineri served as
Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1975-77.
He also headed the Israeli delegation to the UNESCO General Assembly and
in 1979 he was a member of the joint Egyptian-Israeli commission that
drafted the Cultural and Scientific Agreement between the two countries.
Dr. Avineri is the recipient of many honors and awards including a British
Council Scholarship (1961); Rubin Prize in the Social Sciences (1968);
Naphtali Prize for the study of Hegel (1977); Present Tense Award for
the Study of Zionism (1982); and Israel Prize (1996). His publications
include The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx; Karl
Marx on Colonialism and Modernization; Israel and the Palestinians;
Marx' Socialism; Hegel's Theory of the Modern State; Varieties
of Marxism; The Making of Modern Zionism; Moses Hess:
Prophet of Communism and Zionism; Arlosoroff: A Political Biography;
Communism and Individualism (co-author); and an historical introduction
to the Hebrew edition of Theodore Herzl's Diaries.
