Elai Rettig

Dr. Eili Rettig is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University. His doctoral thesis, which examined how energy security considerations affect the desire of countries to cooperate in the international arena, was approved in 2019 at the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. Simultaneously with his doctoral studies, he served as a researcher Guest at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University in the USA, as a "Neubauer Fellow" at the Institute for National Security Studies ( INSS ) at Tel Aviv University, and as a lecturer at New York University Tel Aviv (NYU-TA).

Between 2018-2020, Dr. Rettig served as a postdoctoral student and teaching fellow on behalf of the Israel Institute in the Middle East Department and in the Environmental Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis, and was also a lecturer in energy studies at the School of Business Administration at Rice University in Houston, Texas. In 2021, he served as a post -Doctoral student in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a researcher at the Center for Naval Policy and Strategy Research and the Chaikin Chair of Geostrategy at the University of Haifa.

His research deals with violent conflicts around natural resources ( resource conflicts ), international cooperation around environmental threats, politics of energy trade, and energy and environmental policy in the international system. His research has been published in academic journals such as International Studies Quarterly , Foreign Policy Analysis , International Journal of Press/Politics , in policy documents of research institutes in Israel and Europe, in opinion articles in the press, and in Knesset committees on issues related to Israel's energy policy.

Dr. Rettig teaches courses at Bar-Ilan University for undergraduate and graduate students on topics such as: energy and national security, security and strategy in the 21st century, and regime change in the Middle East.