Ian J. Bickerton (AUS)

Ian J. Bickerton was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, where he gained his B.A. with Honors in History. He received his M.A. at Kansas State University before completing his Ph.D. at the Claremont Graduate School,CA. He is a member of the School of History at the University of New South Wales, and has taught the history of the modern U.S.A., the history of U.S. foreign relations, and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has also taught at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and he has lectured in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and Israel.
His recent publications include A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (6th edn. 2009), Forty-Three Days: The Gulf War (1991), Unintended Consequences: The United States at War (with Kenneth Hagan (2007), The Illusion of Victory: The True Costs of War (2011), and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Guide For the Perplexed (2012).