Professor Asaf Siniver FRHistS

Asaf Siniver

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Professor of International Security

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6386
Email
a.siniver@bham.ac.uk
Address
Muirhead Tower
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Asaf Siniver is Professor of International Security at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. He specialises in conflict resolution, international mediation, diplomacy, Foreign Policy Analysis, contemporary US foreign policy, and the politics, diplomacy, and history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has published extensively in these areas, including six books and dozens of articles and edited chapters. His most recent book is The International Arbitration of Territorial Disputes (2024, Oxford University Press), which was funded by a 2-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship.

His current research projects include the role of legal and diplomatic methods of dispute settlement in interstate and intrastate conflicts. He is also PI on a BRIDGE seed funding grant on Development and Diplomacy in the Global South, with colleagues at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of São Paulo. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs, and Chair of the Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Qualifications

  • PhD, International Relations (Nottingham), 2006
  • MA, International Relations (Nottingham), 2002
  • BA, Political Science (Tel Aviv), 1997

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Siniver is happy to discuss research proposals related to international security, diplomacy, conflict resolution, mediation, international law, Foreign Policy Analysis, contemporary US foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Other activities

Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Affairs, 2024-ongoing

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Global Security Studies, 2020-2024

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Civil Wars Journal, 2010-2016

Chair, Diplomatic Studies Section, International Studies Association

Trainer in Conflict Resolution, Transformation and Peacebuilding at the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies

Affiliate, Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security

Publications

Selected publications 

Ozcelik, A., Gebre-Medhin, D., and Siniver, A. 2025. ''. Journal of International Dispute Settlement 16:2, idaf022  

Siniver, A. 2024. '' International Politics.

Siniver, A. 2024. The International Arbitration of Territorial Disputes. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

Siniver, A., and Tsourapas, G. 2023. ‘Middle Powers and Soft-Power Rivalry: Egyptian–Israeli Competition in Africa’. Foreign Policy Analysis 19:2, orac041 

Siniver, A. 2023. Written Evidence to House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: (Inquiry) 

Siniver, A. 2023. ''. The Conversation, 16 October.

Siniver, A. 2022. ‘”’. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 17:2, 216-247. 

Hart, D. and Siniver, A. 2020. ‘’. International Negotiation 26:2, 159-183 

Siniver, A., and Featherstone, C. 2020. ‘.' Global Affairs 6:1, 71-85. 

Siniver, A., and Lucas, S. 2019. ‘’. Journal of Global Security Studies 4:4, 510-525. 

Siniver, A., and Lucas, S. 2016. ''. International Affairs 92:1, 63-79. 

Siniver, A. 2015. Abba Eban: A Biography. Overlook Press, New York. 

Siniver, A. (ed.) 2013. The Yom Kippur War: Politics, Diplomacy, Legacy. Oxford university Press, New York. 

Heemsbergen, L., and Siniver, A. 2011. ‘.’ Review of international studies 37:3, 1169-1190. 

Siniver, A. (ed.) 2011. International Terrorism post 9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses. Routledge, London. 

Siniver, A. 2008. Nixon, Kissinger, and US Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis. Cambridge University Press, New York. 

Siniver, A. 2006. ‘.’ Political Studies 54:4, 806-826.