Dr. Shlaim is a fellow of St. Antony’s College and a professor of international relations at Oxford University. Born in Baghdad and reared in Israel, Professor Shlaim is numbered among Israel’s New Historians, who have challenged traditional assumptions about Israeli history. He is the author of <em>Lion of Jordan: King Hussein’s Life in War and Peace</em> (2007) and <em>Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine </em>(1988). He was interviewed for Middle East Policy on June 15 in his office at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s by Roger Gaess ([email protected]), a freelance journalist.