Gabriel Scheinmann
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Gabriel Scheinmann  is a Ph.D. candidate in Government at Georgetown University, focusing on international security, alliance architecture, and grand strategy. His dissertation work examines the impact of great power decline on alliances. He is a 2008 graduate of Harvard College, where he concentrated in Government and edited and co-founded the first Harvard College journal focusing on Middle Eastern affairs.
In addition, he serves as a consultant to the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he is conducting research on the history of U.S. grand strategy towards Asia. Over the past three years, he has been a Rumsfeld Foundation Graduate Fellow. His publications have been featured in The National Interest, DefenseNews, The Daily Caller, and The Washington Quarterly. He is fluent in English and French, speaks Hebrew, and has studied Arabic.
JINSA Visiting Fellow Gabriel Scheinmann examines the President's recent trip to Israel. While the trip focused largely on public diplomacy, it also contained several security-related takeaways.
Where is the Iranian nuclear showdown going? No doubt that will be a subject of discussion when President Obama visits Israel this week and meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But in Washington, Jerusalem and other capitals, officials tend to discuss whether time remains to prevent (or delay) an Iranian bomb, and what the consequences would be if not. Many speak with certainty, but their most basic assumptions remain questionable.
JINSA Visiting Fellow Gabriel Scheinmann contends that Israeli strategy regarding the "Arab Spring" has moved into a second phase. Its deterrence eroded, Israel is now seeking to deny the introduction of elements that could alter a currently favorable military balance.
This article by JINSA Visiting Fellow Gabriel Scheinmann originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post. Scheinmann maintains that Arrow 3 represents the finest in bilateral military cooperation, a testament to the depth and ingenuity of the U.S.-Israel military alliance.
JINSA Visiting Fellow Gabriel Scheinmann contends that the more the Middle East tears itself apart, the more Israel floats to the top, unscathed economically, militarily, or diplomatically.
Turkey is blocking NATO cooperation with Israel and is rewarded by the Administration with expanded military cooperation and sales of advanced U.S. weaponry. While the Administration may feel that it needs Turkish cooperation on a host of issues, its silence in the face of Turkey's obstructionist policies is merely encouraging, not reigning in, Ankara's intransigence, contends JINSA Visiting Fellow Gabriel Scheinmann.
JINSA Visiting Fellow Gabriel Scheinmann explores the possibility of making Iron Dome into a jointly owned and managed U.S.-Israeli defense system. Doing so would be a bold and mutually beneficial symbol of the closeness and importance of the U.S.-Israel strategic alliance.
JINSA Visiting Fellow Gabriel Scheinmann on why the Obama administration cutting funding to Israeli missile defense just as talk of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities is reaching a crescendo.
Carl von Clausewitz, the renowned Prussian military theorist, famously wrote that war is merely a continuation of politics by other means. If so, then the Obama Administration has disastrously misunderstood the Clausewitzian dictum when it comes to Israeli security.
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