Tamar Hermann is a professor of political science at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Her main fields of academic interest are public opinion and foreign policymaking, Israeli politics, grassroots politics and protest movements, and the governability crisis in modern liberal democracies. Cambridge University Press published her book on the Israeli peace movement in 2009. For further details, see http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/tamar-hermannE.html .
Research areas: Middle East and North Africa