Yehuda Lukacs

Yehuda Lukacs

Emeritus Faculty

Yehuda Lukacs was born in Budapest and spent his childhood in the Brazilian rainforest and Tel Aviv. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University's School of International Service (SIS). He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Global Affairs at George Mason University, where he also served as Associate Provost for International Programs and as the founding director of the Center for Global Education (CGE). He co-founded the undergraduate Global Affairs program with Professor Julie Christenson.

In addition to his tenure at George Mason University, he taught at American University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Corcoran College of Art and Design, University College Cork in Ireland, and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. He also held a Lady Davis Research Fellowship at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His books include Op-Ed: Musings on War & Peace in the Middle East and Beyond (KDP Books),  Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process (Syracuse University Press), The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record (Cambridge University Press), Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Cambridge University Press), and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Two Decades of Change, co-edited with Abdallah Battah (Westview Press).

Lukacs has been a prolific commentator on global affairs, publishing opinion pieces in newspapers and media platforms such as The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Hill, The Washington Times, Le Monde, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Forward, Substack, The Palestine-Israel Journal, The Washington Examiner, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, and The Times of Israel.

He is the executive producer of the documentary Migration Studies, filmed in Hungary and Serbia in 2017, which focuses on the refugee crisis in Europe. 

Link: https://youtu.be/Mg8kDCRLZKY?si=nuDjdKaVxx_YNQ2H