Dr Tamir Libel has areas of expertise in the Middle East and European Union with a background in both International Relations and Security Studies. He teaches courses on Arab- Israeli conflict, International Security, European Security, Israeli Civil- Military Relations and Intelligence Studies. He is a a Non- Resident Fellow at the Centre for War Studies and a former Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. Tamir's current research interests include Israeli uses of covert action as a foreign policy tool in the Arab- Israeli conflict, the strengthening of religious dimensions in the organizational culture and ethos of the Israeli Defense Forces and their political and social implications as well as the cultural, social and political implications of the demilitarization of the European Union.