Benjamin Shwadran (Hebrew: בנימין שוואדראן) (1907 – 2001) was an author and professor of Middle Eastern studies.
Shwadran went to the United States in 1927 and completed his studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received a doctorate in 1945.
[citation needed] Shwadran then taught as a professor of political science at Hofstra University.
In 1973, he retired to Jerusalem, and continued to teach as a professor of modern Middle East history at Tel Aviv University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
[2] His major books include The Middle East, Oil, and the Great Powers (1955, 1959, and 1973),[3] Jordan, A State of Tension (1959; The University of Chicago Press),[4][5] The Power Struggle in Iraq (1960), and Middle East Oil Crises since 1973 (1986).