Amnon Sella
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Amnon Sella (Hebrew: אמנון סלע; born 1934) is a prominent International Relations and Soviet Studies scholar and an author.
He is a professor at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy.
In addition he is a professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sella attended the University of Edinburgh and was awarded a PhD in 1973 for a thesis entitled “Surprise attack: Soviet response to German threats, December 1940-June 1941".
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