Uri Bar-Joseph
Uri Bar-Joseph is professor emeritus in the Department for International Relations of The School for Political Science at Haifa University. He specializes in national security, intelligence studies and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
He earned his PhD in 1990 from Stanford University, under the supervision of Alexander George. His dissertation, Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: The US, Israel, and Britain was published by Penn State Press and won Choice's Outstanding Academic Books Award for 1996.
Bar-Joseph is best known for his studies of the intelligence failure of the Yom Kippur War. His book, The Watchman Fell Asleep, is the first detailed academic study of the subject and is considered the most important study in this field. The Hebrew edition won the Israeli Political Science Association Best Book Award in 2002. The Israeli-made docudrama, "The Silence of the Sirens", which is based on Bar-Joseph's book won the Israeli Academy Award for the best television feature film in 2004.
In 2016, Bar-Joseph published The Angel:The Egyptian spy who saved Israel, which recounts the story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Gamal Abdel Nasser's son-in-law, President Sadat's close advisor, and an Israeli spy. The book was the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2016 and was selected by the American Association of Former Intelligence Officers as the Best Intelligence Book of 2017.
Marwan's early warning, on the eve of the Yom Kippur War, that war would break the following day, convinced Israeli leaders to order the mobilization of the reserve army and this early mobilization prevented the complete occupation of the Golan Heights on the second day of the war. Marwan continued working for the Israeli intelligence services till 1998. His true identity as an Israeli spy was leaked to the press by the former Chief of Military Intelligence Eli Zeira, who had served in this capacity during the Yom Kippur War. The document written by Bar-Joseph about this leak served as the basis for the official charges pressed by senior Israeli intelligence officers against Zeira, charging him with leaking the identity of the most important spy in Israel's history whose warning had effectively saved the country in 1973. A judicial inquiry proved that Zeira had leaked the name.
Bar-Joseph most recent book titled Intelligence Success and Failure: The Human Factor was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
Other major works
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Amos Perlmutter, Michael I. Handel, Two Minutes Over Baghdad, London: Corgi, 1982, London Frank Cass 2003
- , London: Frank Cass, 1987
- Intelligence intervention in the politics of democratic states: the United States, Israel, and Britain, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995
- Israel's National Security Towards the 21st Century, London: Frank Cass, 2001
- The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise of the Yom Kippur War and Its Sources, Albany: State of New York University Press, 2005
- The Angel: The Egyptian Spy who Saved Israel, New York: HarperColins, 2016
- Intelligence Success and Failure: A comparative Study, With Rose McDermott, Oxford UP., 2016
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Essays and articles
- The Hidden Debate: The Formation of Nuclear Doctrines in the Middle East, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1982, pp. 205–227
- Methodological Magic, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1988, pp. 134–155
- Uri Bar-Joseph, John Hannah, Intervention Threats in Short Arab-Israeli Wars: An Analysis of Soviet Crisis Behavior, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1988, pp. 46–76
- Uri Bar-Joseph, John Ferris, Getting Marlowe to Hold His Tongue: The Conservative Party, the Intelligence Services and the Zinoviev Letter, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1993, pp. 100–137
- Israel's Intelligence Failure of 1973: New Evidence, A New Interpretation, and Theoretical Implications, Security Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1995, pp. 584–609
- Israel Caught Unaware: Egypt's Sinai Surprise of 1960, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1995, pp. 203–219
- The Wealth of Information and the Poverty of Comprehension: Israel's Intelligence Failure of 1973 Revisited, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1995, pp. 229–240
- Rotem: The Forgotten Crisis on the Road to the 1967 War, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 31, no. 3, 1996, pp. 547–566
- , Journal of Conflict Studies Vol.17, No.2, 1997, pp. 133–156
- , Security Studies, Vol.7, No.3, 1998, pp. 149–184
- , International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol.11, No.2, 1998, pp. 154–174
- , The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol.21, No.3, 1998, pp. 46–66
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Zachary Sheaffer, Barings and Yom Kippur: Surprise Despite Warning in Business Administration and Strategic Studies, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol.11, No.3, 1998, pp. 331–349
- , Israel Affairs, Vol.6, No.1, 1999, pp. 11–35
- , Israel Affairs, Vol.6, No. 2&3, 2000, pp. 81–103
- Israel's National Security Towards the 21st Century: Introduction, The Journal of Strategic Studies , Vol.24, No.2, 2001, pp. 1–12
- Intelligence Failure and the Need for Cognitive Closure: The Case of Yom Kippur, 'The Paradox of Intelligence: Essays in Memory of Michael I. Handel, Richard K. Betts and Thomas Mahnken, Frank Cass, 2003, pp. 166–89
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Arie W. Kruglanski, Intelligence Failure and the Need for Cognitive Closure: On the Psychology of the Yom Kippur Surprise, Political Psychology, Vol. 24, No.1, 2003, pp. 75–99
- Roundtable: The Settlements, Yale Israel Journal, No.7, 2005, pp. 23–33
- , Survival, Vol.46, No.4, 2004, pp. 137–156
- The Historiography of the Yom Kippur War: Major Aspects in a Thirty-Year Perspective, Journal of Israeli History, Vol.24, No.2, 2005, pp. 251–66
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Dima Adamsky, , Intelligence and National Security, 2006, Vol.21, No.1, pp. 1–25
- , Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 41, no. 3, 2006, pp. 545–556
- A Chance not taken: Sadat's Peace Initiative of February 1973 and Its Rejection by Israel, The Journal of Contemporary History, 2006, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 545–556
- , International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 2007, Vol.20, No.4, 583–601
- , Israel Affairs, 2008, Vol. 14, No.1, pp. 70–83
- Intelligence and National Security Vol.23, No.2, 2008, pp. 226–248
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Rose Mcdermott, Personal Functioning under Stress: Accountability and Social Support of Israeli Leaders in the Yom Kippur War, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 52, no. 1, 2008, pp. 144–170
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Rose Mcdermott, Change the Analyst and Not the System: A Different Approach to Intelligence Reform, Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 4, no. 2, 2008, pp. 127–145
- , The Journal of Military History 72, 2008, pp. 11–41
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Jack S. Levy, Conscious Action and Intelligence Failure, Political Science Quarterly, vol. 124, no. 3, 2009, pp. 461–488
- , Israel and Hizbollah: An asymmetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective, Clive Jones and Sergio Catignani, London: Routledge, 2009, pp, 147–62
- The 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel Studies: An Anthology, Mitchell G. Bard and David Nachmias, AICE Publication, 2009
- , Armed Forces and Society, Vol 36, 2010, pp. 505–525
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Rose Mcdermott, The Intelligence Analysis Crisis, The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence, Loch Johnson, New York: Oxford UP, 2010, pp. 359–374
- The Intelligence Community During the Yom Kippur War, Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, Amos Gilboa and Ephraim Lapid, Jerusalem: Gefen, 2011, pp. 76–87
- , International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligenc, Vol 24, 2011, pp. 22–43
- Deterrence Policy in a Changing Strategic Environment, ArmsControl and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East, Bernd W. Kubbig and Sven-Eric Fikenscher, Routledge, 2012, pp. 89–105
- , Foreign Affairs, 2012
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Ehud Eiran, The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1967–1973, Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2013
- , Middle East Journal, vol. 67, no. 4, 2013, pp. 531–546
- , The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 36, 5, 2013, pp. 718–742
- , The International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 26, Vol. 2, 2013, pp. 347–369
- Israel's Intelligence Community, Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies, Robert Dover, Michael S. Goodman, and Claudia Hillebrand, Rouledge, 2013, pp. 209–217
- Uri Bar-Joseph Amr Yussef, The Hidden Factors that Turned the Tide: Strategic Decision-Making and Operational Intelligence in the 1973 War, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol.37, 4 2014, pp. 584–608
- , Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 30, 5 2014, pp. 667–685
- , Intelligence and National Security''' 2016, Vol 31, pp. 949–962
Essays and articles in Hebrew
- , Maarachot, No. 328, 1993, pp. 38–45
- , Maarachot, No. 361, 1998, pp. 14–28
- , Maarachot 366–367, 1999, pp. 12–30
- , Maarachot, No. 366-367, 1999, pp. 12–30
- , Thirty Years Later: Challenges to Israel Since the Yom Kippur War, Anat Kurz, Tel Aviv: The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2004, pp. 23–30
- Intelligence and Politics, Leaders and Intelligence, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, The Broadcast University, 2004, pp. 55–67
- The Sources of the Problematic Relationship Between Intelligence Producers and Consumers, 'Leaders and Intelligence, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, The Broadcast University, 2004, pp. 42–54
- , The War of Yom Kippur and Its Lessons, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, The Broadcast University, 2004, pp. 28–36
- , The War of Yom Kippur and Its Lessons, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, The Broadcast University, 2004, pp. 114–122
- Crisis in Israel’s National Security Conception, Maarachot, No. 401, 2005, pp. 10–19
- , Mabat Malam No. 46, 2006, pp. 32–36
- Leaders Under Stress: Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan in the Yom Kippur War, Leadership at Times of War, Yosi Goldstein and Adli Dular, Rehovot: Weitzman Institute, 2007, pp. 139–46
- Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, and the Coming of the Yom Kippur War, Alpayim, Vol. 31, 2007,
- , 'National Trauma: The War of Yom Kippur after Thirty Years and another War, Moshe Shemesh and Zeev Drory, Beer Shaba: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2008, pp. 137–49
- Uri Bar-Joseph, Kobi Palkov, A Failure in June and Success in October: Soviet Intelligence and Operation Barbarossa, Maarachot, No. 438, 2011, pp. 46–55
- American Failure and Israeli Success, Mabat Malam, No. 59, 2011, pp. 32–35
- , Maarachot, No. 448, 2013, pp. 46–53
- , Iyunim Bitkumat Yisrael, Vol. 23, 2013, pp. 1–33
- , The Yom Kippur War – 40 Years After, Zohar Avraham, The Institute for the Research of Israel's Wars, 2013, pp. 123–142
- , Yom Kippur War - Commanders and Researchers Chair, ed. Benny Michelson, Effie Meltzer, 2013, pp. 425–438
- , Hedim, Israel's Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center, 2015, pp. 49–57
- , Hedim B, Israel's Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center, 2016, pp. 28–37
- , Hedim B, Israel's Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center, 2016, pp. 56–66