Ron E. Hassner is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-director of Berkeley's Religion, Politics and Globalization Program.
He is a graduate of Stanford University with degrees in
political science and religious studies. His research revolves around
symbolic and emotive aspects of international security with particular
attention to religious violence, Middle Eastern politics and
territorial disputes. His publications have focused on the role of
perceptions in entrenching international disputes, the causes and
characteristics of conflicts over sacred places, the characteristics of
political-religious leadership and political-religious mobilization and
the role of national symbols in conflict.
Professor Hassner was a
fellow of the MacArthur Consortium on Peace and Security in 2000-3. In
2003-4 he was a post-doctoral scholar at the Olin Institute for
International Security, Harvard University. In 2007-2008 he was a visiting professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University.