Asher Arian (Hebrew: אשר אריאן; August 4, 1938 – July 7, 2010) was an American and Israeli political scientist who was an expert on Israeli politics and election studies, and who served as a professor at universities in Israel and the United States.
[1][2] Arian was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938, and graduated from John Adams High School.
[1] Arian moved to Israel in 1966, and founded the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, working there until 1989.
[4] Arian served as chair of the Israel Political Science Association, and received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
[4] Arian's published works included Politics in Israel: The Second Generation (1985), National Security and Public Opinion in Israel (1988) (co-author), Changing New York City Politics (1991), Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War (1995), Second Republic: Politics in Israel (1998, 2005), and Executive Governance in Israel (2002) (co-author).