About the Author
Bernard Reich is professor of political sci-ence and international affairs and chair-man of the Department of Political Science at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., where he specializes in the politics of the Middle East. He holds a B.A. degree--cum laude, with special honors in government--from the City Col-lege of New York, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the University of Vir-ginia. Dr. Reich received a Fulbright Re-search Scholar Grant for study in Egypt in 1965 and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for study in Israel in 1971-72, during which time he was ap-pointed as Visiting Research Associate at Tel Aviv University's Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He is a consultant to the Department of State on Middle Eastern and African Studies. He is a consultant to the Department of State on Middle Eastern affairs and lectures regu-larly for various U.S. agencies, including the Foreign Service Institute and the De-fense Intelligence School. He has also tes-tified before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs concerning the Arab-Israeli situation after the October War. Dr. Reich has contributed many works to political science literature on Is-raeli politics and foreign policy and United States Middle East policy.
