Nizan Feldman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A in political science from Tel Aviv University and a B.A in Economics and International Relation from the Hebrew University. In 2008-2010 he was a Neubauer research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. Dr. Feldman lectures on Research Methods at the Hebrew University. His areas of expertise include International Political Economy and Quantitative Research Methods. His postdoctoral research at the Leonard Davis Institute explores the effect of conflicts on FDI and government bond yields by focusing on the reactions of “specific third parties”. A specific third party from the point of view of state A is a state that trades and invests with it and has political interests in the security of state B, with which A is in conflict.