[2] He also served as a recurring visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest,[3] and as a fellow at Munich-based academic think tank Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung, offering advice to politicians.

He argued that it was the pre-capitalist structure of 1917 Russia, as well as the strong authoritarian traditions of the Russian state and its weak civil society, that pushed the October Revolution towards its repressive development.

Eulogising Avineri, Colette Avital wrote: "During the last year of his life, after the 2022 elections that empowered parties of the extreme right, [he] chose to analyze that phenomenon within a broader, global context, highlighting the ongoing crises of many Western democracies.

[12] He also headed the Israeli delegation to the UNESCO General Assembly, and in 1979 he was a member of the joint Egyptian-Israeli commission that negotiated the cultural and scientific agreement between the two countries.

During his time at the Foreign Ministry, Avineri followed the official line of the Rabin government preferring the "Jordanian Option" and participated in some of the meetings with King Hussein.

Avineri was the recipient of many honors and awards including: Hebrew and English editions of his books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian and Japanese.