Zach Levey is the Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado. He completed his Ph.D. in 1994 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) until 1997 and has since then been on the faculty of the University of Haifa, where he served seven years as chair of the Division of International Relations. Professor Levey spent the academic years 2009-11 and 2015-16 on sabbatical at the University of Colorado, during which time he taught courses for the International Affairs Program, the Program in Jewish Studies, the Department of History and Department of Political Science. His areas of research and classroom instruction are Israeli Foreign Policy, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Cold War and the Great Powers in the Middle East. He is the author of books and articles in those fields.聽聽