Alex Mintz

Professor Alex Mintz (born April 2, 1953) is Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya. He served as Chair of the Herzliya Conference series between the years 2014-2015 and as Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at IDC from 2008-2014.

Professor Mintz is editorial board member of the Journals American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Perspective, Open Political Science Journal, Advances in Political Psychology, and Research and Politics. He also served as editor-in-chief of the journal, Political Psychology (2010-2015), As an Associate Editor of the Yale-based Journal of Conflict Resolution (2004-2009) and as editor of the University of Chicago Press book series in Leadership and Decision Making in the International Arena.

Education

Mintz received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University in political science with a minor in mathematics. He then went on to receive a M.A. from Northwestern University in political science before pursuing his PhD, also at Northwestern. His research interests focus on decision making, foreign policy analysis, political marketing and research methods.

Career

Mintz was an instructor at Northwestern University and a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then taught at Texas A&M University for 4 years before returning to Israel to become a professor at the University of Haifa. In 1993 he became the director of the program in foreign policy decision making at Texas A&M and remained there until 2005. He was a visiting professor at Yale and Tel Aviv University. He moved to IDC Herzliya in 2006 as a professor, before becoming the dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in 2008.

Awards and honors

• 2005 – Recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign Policy section of the International Studies Association
• 2005 – Named to the Advisory Board of the Center for Conflict Prevention and Management at the University of Sydney
• 1993 – Recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Studies Association

Published works

Books

• The Polythink Syndrome: U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and ISIS. 2016. (with Carly Wayne). Stanford University Press.
• Essentials of Foreign Policy Decision Making. Cambridge University Press, 2010 (with Karl DeRouen)
• New Directions for International Relations: Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem (co-editor, with Bruce Russett), Lexington Books, February 2005
• Multiple Paths to Knowledge: Methodology In Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution (co-editor with Zeev Maoz, T. Clifton Morgan, Glenn Palmer, Richard J. Stoll), Lexington, 2004
• Integrating Cognitive and Rational Theories of Decision Making (editor and contributor), Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Decision Making on War and Peace: The Cognitive–Rational Debate (co-editor and contributor with N. Geva). Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997.
• The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States (editor and contributor) London: Routledge, 1992.
• Defense, Welfare and Growth (co-editor and contributor, with Steve Chan) London: Routledge, 1992.
• The Politics of Resource Allocation in the U.S. Department of Defense: International Crises and Domestic Constraints. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988.

External links

• Resume
• Prof. page - IDC Herzliya
• Publications - IDC Herzliya