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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Research Interests

  • Israeli politics and society
  • Consequences of war and military service
  • Terrorism and counterterrorism
  • International relations theory
  • Discourse and politics

Selected Publications

Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming. Scheduled for publication in summer 2006.

  • A comparative study of the consequences of military service in the United States and Israel.

“One Nation Under Arms? Military Participation Policy and the Politics of Identity.” Security Studies (forthcoming). Scheduled for publication in 14:3 (July-September 2005).

  • A comparative study of the origins of military participation policies in Israel, the United States, and India.

“Selling the Market Short? The Marketplace of Ideas and the Iraq War.” International Security 29:4 (spring 2005): 196-202.

“The Quest for the Holy Sale: Washington’s Troubling Obsession with Public Diplomacy.”
With David M. Edelstein. Survival 47:1 (spring 2005): 89-104.

“A School for the Nation? How Military Service Does Not Build Nations, and How It Might.”
International Security 28:4 (spring 2004): 85-124.

  • Summarized and reviewed in “Military Myths,” The Wilson Quarterly 28:4 (autumn 2004): 93-94.

“Demographic Change and the Sources of International Conflict.” With Jack S. Levy. In Myron Weiner and Sharon Stanton Russell, eds., Moving Targets: Demography and Security, 62-105. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.

“The Limits of Alliance: Conflict, Cooperation, and Collective Identity.” In Anthony Lake and David Ochmanek, eds., The Real and the Ideal: Essays on International Relations in Honor of Richard H. Ullman, 207-235. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield/Council on Foreign Relations, 2001.

Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy Toward Eastern Europe Under Eisenhower. College Station:
Texas A & M University Press, 2001.

“Perverse Institutionalism: NATO and the Greco-Turkish Conflict.” International Organization 53:2 (spring 1999): 343-377.

“Liberation à la Finland: Reexamining Eisenhower Administration Objectives in Eastern Europe.” Journal of Strategic Studies 20:3 (September 1997): 1-26.

“Fixing the Meaning of 9/11: Hegemony, Coercion, and the Road to War in Iraq.” With Jennifer K. Lobasz. Security Studies 16:3 (July-September 2007): 409-451.

“Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms: The Power of Political Rhetoric.” With Patrick T. Jackson. European Journal of International Relations 13:1 (March 2007): 35-66.

Courses

  • Introduction to Global Politics
  • International Conflict and Security
  • Film and International Politics