Jonathan Adelman

Professor Jonathan Adelman is a full professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Stud-ies at the University of Denver. Having received four degrees from Columbia University, he has written or edited twelve books. In the last two and a half years he has written numerous op-eds on the Middle East, China and Russia, most of which have appeared on the websites of CNN, the Huffington Post, Forbes, Yedioth Ahronot and Fox News.

THE DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel in 2017, while in 2018 and 2019 Netanyahu visited India

Netanyahu and the BRIC

Celebrating Jerusalem Day

The impact of the international environment on Israel

THE SKYLINE of Tel Aviv as seen from Dolev, southern Samaria.

Israel: past, present and future


The chiaroscuro that is Israel

Israel today is a duality – a bright star and a struggling candle in the wind.

Birthright Israel participants show their love for Israel

Russians and Jews: The Odd Couple

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in the last three years gone nine times to a Russia that has promoted dozens of Russian Jews to become oligarchs in the new Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) listens to Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (L) during his visit to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow February 19, 2013

The rise of Israel in the world

Unlike the seesaw nature of Russian-Israeli relations from 1948 to 1991, Vladimir Putin has made several pro-Israeli moves.

United States President Donald Trump (L), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R)

Inconvenient truths about the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

There is much that is missing in depictions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and much that needs to be added for a fair understanding of what is going on.

Demonstrators march through the streets of Cape Town against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict August 9, 2014

A new Middle East in sight? Just maybe

The tide may be turning against Iran in the Middle East.

Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a campaign meeting at the Mosalla mosque in Tehran, Iran, May 16, 2017. Picture taken May 16, 2017.

The BDS movement: Why has it had some success among American youth?

The BDS movement claims that Israel is an apartheid state, like South Africa before the 1990s. The problem is that the youth don’t seem to be capable of realizing that this is simply not true.

People walking in Nazareth

The rise of weak authoritarian powers

Except for the United States, there are few strong democratic powers.

AUTHORITARIANISM IS back in the home of St. Basil’s Cathedral.

Russia 'has made a comeback but has a long way to go'

Newly labeled as one of the top two enemies of the US, Russia might be selling plenty of weapons, but it's lacking in nearly every other category.

A spectator watches Sukhoi Su-30SM jet fighters of the Sokoly Rossii (Falcons of Russia) aerobatic team perform during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow

In the Middle East the enemy of my enemy is my friend

Why are the Saudis and their allies willing to forgo generations of refusing to recognize Israel and turn it into a major ally?

An Egyptian soldier stands near the Egyptian national flag and the Israeli flag at the Taba crossing between Egypt and Israel

Israel’s future looks bright save for the rising Iranian threat

Israel’s military is the most powerful in the Middle East and among the top 10 in the world.

A CROW flies past as schoolchildren gather at a look-out point on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem