Emily Landau

Emily Landau is a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies, where she is also director of the Arms Control and Regional Security Project. She has published and lectured extensively on CSBMs in the Middle East, Arab perceptions of Israel's qualitative edge, Israeli-Egyptian relations, Israel's nuclear policy and arms control policy, proliferation challenges in the post-Cold War world with particular emphasis on the Iranian nuclear challenge, and the Arms Control and Regional Security working group of the Madrid peace process (ACRS). Her current research focuses on regional dynamics and processes in the Middle East and developments in arms control thinking on nuclear proliferation, including implications of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

She is co-author of Israel's Nuclear Image: Arab Perceptions of Israel's Nuclear Posture, author of Egypt and Israel in ACRS: Bilateral Concerns in a Regional Arms Control Process, and co-editor of Building Regional Security in the Middle East: International, Regional and Domestic Influences. Her most recent book is Arms Control in the Middle East: Cooperative Security Dialogue and Regional Constraints (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006).

Dr. Landau teaches arms control in the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University and in the International School at the Univeristy of Haifa. She is a member of the Steering Committee of EuroMeSCo, the Euro-Mediterranean consortium of research institutes, and of the newly convened Expert Advisory Group for Euro-Mediterranean affairs. She holds a BA and MA from Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.