Nizan Feldman is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), specializing in international political economy. He has published studies about the connection between political events and economic processes in leading academic journals. Formerly a post-doctoral fellow at the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Strategy and at the Leonard Daivs Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Feldman teaches international political economy and quantitative research methods at the Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv University.