ANNUAL REPORT 2011 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE 2

GOVERNING BODIES AND STAFF 3

ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE 2011–2012 ACADEMIC YEAR 4 From the Director 4 Research Grants and Scholarships 6 Post-doctoral Researchers 6 Scholarships for Doctoral Students 6 Publications 10 Politika 10 Working Papers in English 10 Books 11 Publications supported by the Leonard Davis Institute 11 Activities of the Institute 12 Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars 12 Guest Lecturers 17 Visiting Professors’ Lectures in the Field of Gender, International Conflict Resolution, 17 and Peace Annual Events 19 Carmon Prize Ceremony 19

ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE 2012–2013 ACADEMIC YEAR 20 From the Director 20 Research Grants and Scholarships 22 Post-doctoral Researchers 22 Research Grants 23 Sophie Davis Forum on Gender, International Conflict Resolution, and Peace: 25 Researchers and Post-doctoral Fellows Scholarships for Doctoral Students 26 Publications 27 Politika 27 Working Papers in English 27 Books 27 Activities of the Institute 28 Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars 28 Guest Lecturers 29 Students’ Lectures 30 Annual Events 31 Carmon Prize Ceremony 31

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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations was established in 1972 at the Hebrew University, thanks to the generosity of the American philanthropist whose name it bears. Located in the Alfred Davis building on Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus, the Institute is surrounded by evocative vistas. Westward are the domes and spires of the Old City of Jerusalem; to the east, visible on a clear day, are the Dead Sea and the mountains of Moab; and to the south are the tower of the Augusta Victoria hospice and the Mount of Olives. The Institute’s identity and mission spring from its position of privilege and responsibility in one of the most fascinating historical cities in the world: Jerusalem, the site of holy places cherished by the three monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Two thousand years after the destruction of the Temple of Herod by the Roman legions, Jerusalem is the capital of the reborn State of Israel, as well as the seat of its government. Since its inception, the Leonard Davis Institute has provided a nonpartisan and independent platform for research, education, and discussion on issues of international studies in general and Israel’s diplomacy and foreign policy in particular. The Institute has three broad aims when planning its programs, which are reinforced in this age of globalization: 1. To promote research in international relations theory, adopting a broad perspective that draws on a variety of disciplines. 2. To present the universal themes of international politics to the Israeli public, thereby enhancing the national discourse on these matters. 3. To put the Institute’s expertise and consulting capability at the disposal of national institutions conducting the security and foreign affairs of Israel. Since 1972, the Leonard Davis Institute has served as a center where researchers from the Departments of International Relations and Political Science and related departments at the Hebrew University—as well as other universities and academic centers—can develop and coordinate research programs. To this end, the Institute, although formally anchored in the Faculty of Social Sciences, is by its nature and statutes an interfaculty and interdisciplinary body. While other institutes of international relations and strategic affairs in Israel tend to specialize in local issues of war and strategy, the Leonard Davis Institute also includes research of external affairs, diplomacy, international law and institutions, and negotiation and conflict resolution. The Institute’s audience encompasses the academic community, Israeli governmental institutions, the diplomatic corps, communications media, and the interested general public. We welcome visitors from abroad and provide them with the opportunity to share their ideas and expertise with local colleagues. The Leonard Davis Institute provides generous funds to promote the research of international studies. The Institute grants scholarships to PhD students from the Hebrew University and to Israeli and overseas post-doctoral students; the Institute also awards research grants to the academic staff of the Hebrew University. In addition, the Institute conducts extensive public activity, including international conferences, seminars, and workshops on central issues on the national agenda. The Leonard Davis Institute publishes a Hebrew-language journal on politics and international studies, Politika, and a “Working Papers” series in both English and Hebrew.

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Shai Arkin, Vice President of Research and Development, Hebrew University Prof. Asher Cohen, Rector, Hebrew University Mr. Carmi Gillon, Vice President of External Relations, Hebrew University Dr. Piki Ish-Shalom, Director, Leonard Davis Institute, and Department of International Relations, Hebrew University Prof. Arie Kacowicz, Chairman of the Academic Committee, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University Prof. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University

THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE Prof. Arie Kacowicz, Chairman of the Academic Committee, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University Prof. Oren Barak, Chair, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University Prof. Menahem Blondheim, Director of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University Prof. Gili Drori, Chairman, Faculty of Social Sciences’ Scholarship Committee, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University Prof. Ruth Fine, Director of the European Forum, Chair of the Department of Romance and Latin- American Studies, Hebrew University Dr. Piki Ish-Shalom, Director, Leonard Davis Institute, and Department of International Relations, Hebrew University Prof. Michael Karayanni, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University Prof. Ariel Knafo, Chairman of the Research and Infrastructure Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Department of Psychology, Hebrew University Prof. Oron Shagrir, Vice Rector, Hebrew University Prof. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University Dr. Lihi Yariv-Laor, East Asian Studies Department, Hebrew University

STAFF OF THE LEONARD DAVIS INSTITUTE Chanoch Wolpe, Administrative Director Marwa Natsheh, Administrative Assistant

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ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE 2011–2012 ACADEMIC YEAR From the Director

The Leonard Davis Institute’s academic and grateful for the generous and continued support public activities this year were markedly broader of the Leonard Davis Institute’s academic than in the previous one. Due to budgetary activities. constraints, 2010–2011 was a transitional The year 2012 marked the Institute’s fortieth year, pending an improvement and more anniversary and, with the approval of the certainty about the Institute’s available financial academic committee, the decision was made to resources. And indeed, during the surveyed hold an international conference in celebration. year the Institute was able to plan its activities Entitled Israel in Regional and International on the basis of available resources and resume Perspectives, the conference was held on its normal activities, holding and cosponsoring June 4–6 with the participation of leading international conferences and workshops, international authorities in the field from the hosting guest speakers, and granting doctoral United States, Germany, and Israel and in the and post-doctoral scholarships as well as funds presence of Mr. Alan Davis and Ms. Mary Lou for research. Dauray, whose support made the conference The 2011–2012 year was the first in which the possible. Institute’s website included the new electronic In the spirit of the Institute’s research bi-annual journal Politika (the first issue of agenda, the conference sought to explore the which was published in June 2012) as well as interplay between the domestic, regional, and numerous occasional academic papers. All the international factors that shape Israel’s foreign articles published on the Institute’s website and security relations. The conference also were reviewed and found fit to be published. discussed Israel’s international stature and Access to all of the Institute’s electronic image in the age of globalization and the quest publications is free. for a just world order, especially in the context In 2012, the Institute received a major of economic cooperation and compliance to contribution for its academic activities thanks international law. By combining inside-out and to a generous new endowment from Mr. Alan outside-in approaches to, and perceptions of, Davis and his wife, Ms. Mary Lou Dauray. The Israel’s policies and international conduct, the endowment is dedicated to a new research conference addressed more general questions forum on “Gender, International Conflict pertaining to the relationship between the Resolution, and Peace.” The new endowment domestic and international arenas. This enabled the Institute to select recipients discussion was warranted especially in view of for the 2012–2013 academic year’s doctoral the significant social, economic, and political and post-doctoral scholarships and to offer transformations in Israel, the Middle East, and research grants to faculty members of the the international arena since the end of the Cold Hebrew University. In addition, the endowment War; an attempt was made to assess the impact enabled the Institute to support the inclusion of these changes on Israeli perceptions and of a new graduate course on the subject in the policies on both the regional and international Department of International Relations. We are levels.

4 Another major academic event, cosponsored the arrangements for hosting and sponsoring with the Harry S. Truman Institute for the this forum of advanced students from Israel and Advancement of Peace and the Liwerant Germany. Center at the Hebrew University, was the The passing year was my last one as director of international conference on Contentious the Institute, and it is a pleasure for me to thank Politics, Democratization, and Political all those who helped facilitate the Institute’s Change: A Comparative Perspective (May missions. I am especially indebted to Dr. Galia 21–23). Among the participants were leading Press-Barnathan from the Department of international scholars in the field of comparative International Relations for serving as deputy politics and social change from North America, director during the fall semester of 2011 while I Europe, and Israel. The conference focused on was on sabbatical. During this period, Dr. Press- the recent popular upheavals in the Middle East Barnathan took much of the burden of finalizing and Israel, discussing their various dimensions the details concerning the Forum on Gender, in comparative perspective. I am thankful to International Conflict Resolution, and Peace, Dr. Eitan Alimi and Prof. Mario Sznajder for as well as coordinating the preparations for the their efforts and cooperation in making this Institute’s fortieth anniversary conference. I am conference happen. also thankful to Prof. Arie Kacowicz for chairing Together with a number of the Hebrew the Institute’s academic committee in the University’s departments and institutes, the 2010–2012 academic years. Institute continued to manage and support the Last but not least, I would like to warmly thank Annual International Graduate Conference in the Institute’s administrative team (Ms. Anat Political Science, International Relations, and Illouz and Ms. Hani Mazar) without whom Public Policy in memory of the late Yitzhak all that is presented above would have been Rabin. More than 110 graduate students, impossible to realize. Both Anat and Hani have one third of them from abroad, took part in left their posts for positions outside Hebrew the seventh graduate conference, which was University after many years of excellent service. supervised by Dr. Galia Press-Barnathan of I wish them my best in their new positions. the Department of International Relations and I would like to welcome my colleague, Dr. Piki Prof. David Levi-Faur from the Department of Ish-Shalom, the new director, as well as Mr. Political Science. Chanoch Wolpe, the new administrative director In November 2011 the Institute held the third of the Leonard Davis Institute, and wish them international PhD workshop on Transitional much success in maintaining the Institute’s Dimensions of Global Governance, in academic vision and practice. cooperation with the Berlin Graduate School for Avraham Sela Transnational Studies (BTS), the Free University of Berlin, and the Hertie School for Governance. I am especially thankful to Prof. Arie Kacowicz and Dr. Galia Press-Barnathan for undertaking

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Research Grants and Scholarships

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS Davis Institute. His work examines the logic of the American use of force since it became a Dr. Rafi Nets-Zehngut, “Collective Memory and superpower in 1898. Geopolitical theories can Conflict” help map the American capability to project Rafi Nets-Zehngut researches the socio- military power around the world. The U.S. has, psychological aspects of conflicts (e.g., in recent years, been continuously accused transitional justice and reconciliation), focusing of bullying and using force unilaterally (in primarily on collective memory. Regionally, he comparison with its earlier, more moderate studies the conflict between Israelis and Arabs/ behavior), and thus the study is crucial to Palestinians, mostly regarding Israeli Jews. current international security affairs. The During his 2011–12 post-doctoral period at the study explains the use of force as the result Davis Institute his research focused primarily of a balance of interests and accessibility, on various aspects of the collective memory of both derived from geopolitical theories. conflicts. In this framework he wrote academic An intervening variable in the form of the articles which deal, inter alia, with the impact involvement of other superpowers in crises of the passing of time on memory, internal and usually limits the likelihood of American use of external memories, major events and memory, force in a given crisis. Analyzing more recent oral history, transitional justice, narrative events in this manner can improve scholars’ analysis, and the collaboration of Palestinians understanding of contemporary American and Israelis in addressing the historical foreign policy. In essence, instead of asking narratives of their conflict. Most of these articles what the U.S. should do with its military forces, use the 1948 Palestinian exodus as a case this research asks what it can do with them, study. He also introduced the collective self- focusing on capabilities rather than intentions. healing process of Israelis and Palestinians in the context of this conflict. For more details see SCHOLARSHIPS FOR http://www.collective-memory.info/. DOCTORAL STUDENTS Rachel Adam, “The IUCN, Epistemic Dr. Ziv Rubinovitz, “American Policy on the Use Communities, and International Conventions in of Force in Multipolar and Bipolar Systems: the Field of Biodiversity” Projecting Force from the Sea—Leading Naval Ms. Adam’s research examines the role of Powers” biological law in defending biodiversity (as a Dr. Rubinovitz holds a PhD in international national-regional resource “owned” by countries) relations from the University of Haifa. His by revealing the factors behind its failure. dissertation focused on the geopolitics of Her research demonstrates that European American use of force beginning in 1898. His countries wish to defend the biodiversity of research examines American foreign policy their sovereign territories by using only national and grand strategy, geopolitics, international regulations. This course of action hopes to create security, and the Israel-Egypt peace process an understanding between seven colonialist (research on the Israel-Egypt peace process countries to manage African wildlife together. is conducted with Prof. Gerald Steinberg). His The IUCN (International Union for Conservation publications include “Blue and White ‘Black of Nature) attempts to improve international September’: Israel’s Role in the Jordan Crisis conventions, but since European countries view of 1970,” in International History Review (2010) these conventions as threats to their sovereignty, and “Power Politics and the Limits of Power in they take pains to omit directives, rendering Political Negotiation: A Renewed Look at Camp them weak and ineffective. The study exposes David” in Moshe Fuksman-Sha’al (ed.), The the colonial roots of the use of international law Camp David Accords: A Collection of Articles in defending biodiversity in order to explain the and Lectures (2010). ineffectiveness of international conventions in During the 2011–12 academic year Dr. this field and to allow for deliberating in various Rubinovitz was a post-doctoral fellow at the directions to find alternative solutions.

6 Osnat Grady Schwartz, “International Law Odelia Oshri, “Challenges for the European in Domestic Court Rulings and the Global Integration: Legitimacy, Community Deficit, Expansion of Judicial Power—Institutional and and National Pride” Individual Dimensions” The European Union’s origins are in the This study explores the use of international international partnership formed after the law in domestic courts. It examines if—and Second World War. Since then, the organization to what extent—a connection exists between has grown; today it is comprised of twenty- two phenomena: the growing reference to seven member states which cooperate on international law in domestic court rulings and matters of security, internal policing, foreign the global expansion of judicial power. This relations, and economics. However, despite the study is conducted on two levels, international impressive processes of political and economic and national. The links between these two levels integration, there are those who doubt the are manifest in the identity of the judges, who communal characteristics of the European are central to the global trends. This thesis Union. During the years of the EU’s formation, a suggests an explanation for this correlation by “community deficit” was created, a situation in developing a theory of “mutual empowerment” which the higher-level integration of the union between domestic courts and international law. and the community level did not accord with one another. This research attempts to explore the source of the gap between the EU’s level Roee Kibrik, “Idea, Reality, and What Lies of economic and political integration and the Between: The Gap between National Discourse “community deficit.” and Global Reality as an Element of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict” Mr. Kibrik’s research focuses on the theoretical Roman Sukholutsky, “Intellectual Sources of questions surrounding the relationship between the Opposition to the ‘Human Unity’ Idea” theory and politics and attempts to tie them to This research analyzes the development of the process of globalization and the conflict in intellectual sources for the opposition to the Israel/Palestine. It examines the contribution idea of humanity’s unity (cosmopolitanism) in of the perceptual gap between ideal theoretical the modern era. This refers primarily to the concepts, as well as the perception of reality period beginning at the end of the Second World and ontological reality, to the continued conflict War and the beginning of the Cold War and and difficulty reaching a settlement over the extending until today. Throughout the course last twenty years. The insights of humanistic of modern history the concept of humanity’s psychology can help to outline the gaps unity and those ideas opposed to this concept between reality, the perception of reality, and have evolved, and the theoretical and ideational the perception of the ideal as a fundamental underpinnings of cosmopolitanism and anti- element in the development of conflicts. cosmopolitanism have changed from one period to the next. Anyone attempting to research this subject immediately encounters a noticeable Henry Lovat, “International Law and the Civil and significant fact: in spite of the intuitive and War Coalition” obvious profitability of the cosmopolitan idea as In recent decades, the number of civil wars an ideal of humanity’s unity that presents higher has greatly increased, taking numerous values of political stability, peace, coexistence, lives. This has served as the backdrop for the a solution to global problems, and potential establishment of many international conventions cultural and economic prosperity, it was not aiming to regulate this field. Nevertheless, widely accepted and has even been the subject despite the existence of these conventions, of criticism both from politicians and from this study reveals the problem caused by those intellectuals. The aim of this research is to international legal entities in acting as efficient examine the failure of the cosmopolitan idea and “agents” in embedding normative international its non-realization in international relations. changes.

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Einat Vadai, “Identity Balancing: When Balance only challenge to the Arab popular status quo of Powers and Practical Communities Meet” regarding two main issues: peace with Israel Ms. Vadai’s research presents a revision of and political and cultural relations with the the classical theories of balance of power. It West. claims that countries balance against threats of security not only through armament and Lior Lehrs, “‘Private Peace Initiators’ in treaties, but also through the practice called Conflict Resolution Processes” “Identity Balancing,” using a conscious and The Davis Institute funded the scholarship of deliberate process in which they create a joint this outstanding doctoral student in the Faculty identity. The study has two aims. The first aim of Social Sciences’ Department of International is to describe the term “Identity Balancing” and Relations, matching his Canadian scholarship its dynamics. The second, more central, aim (Clara Robert—International Relations Prize). of this research is to analyze historically why and how the practice of “Identity Balancing” “Private peace initiators” are private citizens was created and expanded and how it became who initiate dialogue with the leadership on institutionalized in the international system. the other side of a conflict without official authority, hoping to advance a resolution. The Leonard Davis Institute sponsors and This phenomenon is the center of Mr. Lehrs’s finances the Department of International doctoral research, which presents the subject, Relations’ endeavor to provide the Faculty connecting it to a list of research questions that of Social Sciences with scholarships for are related to theory, history, and policy. The aim outstanding doctoral students, reflecting the of this research is to map this phenomenon, to close ties between the department and the identify the resources of these peace initiators, Leonard Davis Institute. their patterns, and their influence on the official political space. This is accomplished Wael Abu ‘Uqsa, “The Post-1967 Arab Liberal by focusing on the analysis of five case studies Discourse in the Middle East” from different conflict regions and from different The Davis Institute funded the scholarship of historical periods. this outstanding doctoral student in the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Department of International Mor Mitrani, “The International of the Global: Relations. In Search of an International Community in a The intellectual discourse in the Arab Middle Globalized World. “ East can be divided into four main (albeit not The Davis Institute funded the scholarship of mutually exclusive) categories: Islamic, national this outstanding doctoral student in the Faculty Pan-Arab, socialist, and liberal. This study of Social Sciences’ Department of International focuses on the liberal Arab discourse, which Relations. developed from traditions influenced by both The study focuses on the international modern Western history and the Arab-Muslim dimension of the globalization process, history of the region. The research seeks to and examines how globalization processes depict the limits, the sources, and the history affect mutual practices and rules with direct of this discourse in the post-1967 era. Its main interaction patterns and interstate relation questions are: What is Arab liberalism and on both theoretical and empirical levels. The what have its characteristics been since 1967? research relies on the central hypothesis that What are the challenges that this tradition in recognizing globalization processes and faces? What kind of intellectual and religious adopting the globalization idea as a central uses have Arab liberal intellectuals made of the theme in today’s cultural and political order Islamic tradition until now? And how have these the countries’ societies adopt a new model ideas been accepted in the Arab world? From for defining their positions in the international a domestic Arabic political, cultural, and social arena. This model is, in effect, a conceptual perspective, Arab liberalism is the main—if not expansion of one of the traditional models in the only—discourse that has challenged political national structure, and recognizes the three Islam since the beginning of the 1990s. From an central sectors of the state: government, international point of view, Arab liberalism is the market, and civic culture. The new model

8 is in practice a conceptual expansion of and their mutual influence in the context of these three sectors to the global scale: the globalization processes suggests, in effect, a international community, the global economy, new and updated understanding of the political and the global civic culture. Recognizing role of these countries in managing the world’s the interdependence between these sectors interests.

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Publications

POLITIKA (IN HEBREW) and India was prepared to accept the choice of the Arab people to determine their leaders Politika is a digital peer-reviewed journal and political system within the norms of of Israeli political science and international their respective societies. The geographically relations that addresses timely issues affecting proximate region, especially the Persian Gulf, both Israel and the world. is vital for India. Hence, other than evacuation Issue No. 22 (Winter 2013), of its nationals, India’s reactions to the Arab General Issue Spring have been few and far between. And Articles published in this issue: even these responses have been measured, Tamar Arieli and Nissim Cohen, “The Conflict underscoring Indian reluctance to take any Environment as a Research Field: Challenges stand. India has been extremely cautious about and the Snowball Sample” the developments in the Persian Gulf, hoping Ofer Kenig and Chen Freidberg, “Does the that the ruling regimes would survive. Given the Knesset Deliberately Dissolve Itself?” presence of about six million Indian expatriate workers in the Gulf countries, India’s studied Amnon Kartin, “Dilemmas in Administering silence—rather than being a sign of indifference Immigration Policies in Countries with Ongoing towards popular sentiments or an endorsement Ethnic-National-Religious Conflicts” of the authoritarian regimes—was its only option Zvi Libman, “Interpretations of European available. It was a reflection both of its crucial Policies towards the ‘Arab Spring’: A Calculated interests in the region and of its preference for Risk Due to No Alternatives and Its Meaning for stable and internally viable political states in Israel” the region. Thus, economic interests, more than Adam Raz, “The Road to Dimona: The Beginning political calculations, have determined India’s of Conflict on Israeli Nuclear Policy” post-Cold War Middle East policies—a fact Menachem Ratson, “Social Contract visibly demonstrated following the Arab Spring. Theory—Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: India’s traditional reluctance to make democracy Between Scientific Methodology and Biblical promotion a principal foreign policy objective Hermeneutics” also played into this amalgam of political considerations. The muted and calibrated Indian Oren Barak, Review of Amiram Oren’s book, reactions to the Arab Spring challenge the Drafted Territories: The Creation of Israeli hopes for an assertive India on the international Army Hegemony over the State’s Land and Its scene. On the macro level, India’s calculated Expanses during Its Early Years, 1948–1956 and interest-driven positions during the Arab Spring are also a sign that its aspirations for WORKING PAPERS IN ENGLISH superpower status will be through consensus Prof. P. R. Kumaraswamy, “Reading the and accommodation rather than by taking a Silence: India and the Arab Spring” leadership role—that is, through measured High political, economic, and energy stakes steps, not aggressive public statements. This is conditioned India’s nuanced response to the the irony of the “self-appointed frontrunner for Arab Spring. Proud of its diversity, India’s foreign the UNSC.” policy agenda has never promoted democracy,

10 BOOKS These words were written by Prof. Eli Joffe Panel Discussion on New Book (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) in the late twentieth century; in so writing, he exposes The Leonard Davis Institute for International a heretofore unknown—though significant— Relations recently held a launch ceremony on perspective in China’s progression toward the occasion of the publishing of Dr. Zachariah becoming a global power. In contrast with the Kay’s book: prevailing assumption, the Chinese army was The Diplomacy of Impartiality: Canada and never united in its attitudes, and differences of Israel, 1958–1968 (Wilfrid Laurier University opinion were common between the army and Press, 2010) the political leadership. These conflicts and This book is an analysis of a major decade their resolutions, the involvement of the army in in Canadian–Israeli relations, dealing with civil activities, the army’s role in imposing order, significant events that led to the Six-Day War and its positions in foreign relations greatly of 1967 and its aftermath. Using primary influenced—and will continue to influence—the documentation from the National Archives of future of China. Canada and the Israel State Archives, Zachariah Prof. Joffe was the first to research the conflict Kay demonstrates between China’s army and its leadership. In that although the sixties he exposed the conflict between Canada was the army and the government that led to the committed to Cultural Revolution. In his groundbreaking Israel’s existence, research, which outlined global research in the its foreign policy field, he accompanied the Chinese army until was governed by the early twenty-first century. By examining the the scrupulous development of the army in the broader political impartiality that and economic context, he suggested profound had become a and original explanations for the occurrences in principle guideline China. when dealing with The book includes many of Prof. Joffe’s Israel and the important articles and, for the first time, Middle East. offers the Israeli reader a wider perspective

on the Chinese PUBLICATIONS SUPPORTED BY army and its role THE LEONARD DAVIS INSTITUTE in the system of The Leonard Davis Institute’s academic government. This committee made funds available to publish the perspective is book The Chinese Army—From Mao to Today, by crucial for anyone Prof. Eli Joffe (published by the Bialik Institute, interested in Jerusalem). China’s conduct, its future, its place in In contemporary China, “the People’s Liberation the global order in Army was assigned a central role. This was due the future, and the to the fact that the army is able to determine existing relationship the outcome of a power struggle in the upper between the army echelons, to eliminate local rebellious factions, and government. to suppress a mass rebellion—even to carry out an overthrow.”

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Activities of the Institute

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, Thomas Risse, Tanja Börzel, Klaus Dieter Wolf, AND SEMINARS and Jonas Tallberg Transnational Dimensions of Session 3: Europe and Transnational Global Governance (November Dimensions of Global Governance 2011) Chairs and discussants: Alfred Tovias (Hebrew The third international PhD workshop was wholly University) and Tanja Börzel (Free University of organized and run by the Institute. It was held in Berlin) cooperation with the Berlin Graduate School for Anna Hechinger (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), the Free University Transnational Studies), “Explaining Domestic of Berlin, and the Hertie School for Governance. Politics in the Euro Crisis” Session 1: On Global Governance, Global Odelia Oshri (Hebrew University), “Values’ Authority, and the International Community Proximity and the Problem of Legitimacy in Chairs and discussants: Jonas Tallberg the European Union: A Reexamination of the (Stockholm University) and Arie Kacowicz Congruence Hypothesis” (Hebrew University) Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University), Matthew Stephen (Berlin Graduate School for “Exploring the Boundaries of Security Transnational Studies), “Multipolar Governance Communities: Spain, Morocco, and the EU” under Pressure: Rising States and the Session 4: Discourse Analysis and the Power of Reconfiguration of Global Authority” Argumentation Mor Mitrani (Hebrew University), “In an Open Chairs and discussants: Thomas Risse (Free (Conceptual) Relationship: The International University of Berlin) and Piki Ish-Shalom Community and the Global Civil Society— (Hebrew University) Compete or Complete?” Holly Ann Oberle (Berlin Graduate School Sophie Nakueira (University of Cape Town), “The for Transnational Studies), “The Gendered New Global Governance: A Case Study of the Performance of U.S. Foreign Policy” Governance of Mega Events” Roee Kibrik (Hebrew University), “Who Is the Session 2: On Moral Responsibility and Sovereign Who Conquers His Desires: The Transnational Civil Society Sovereign Concept, the Globalization Process, Chairs and Discussants: Tomer Broude (Hebrew and Political Conflicts in Israel/Palestine in the University) and Tal Dingott Alkopher (Hebrew Last Thirty Years” University) Konstanze Jüngling (Peace Research Robert Lepenies (Berlin Graduate School for Institute Frankfurt), “Power of Words? On the Transnational Studies), “What—if Anything—Do Effectiveness of Verbal Criticism in the Case of We Owe Losers from Trade?” Great Powers Violating Human Rights” Henry Lovat (Hebrew University), “Government- Session 5: Functional Dimensions and Transnational Civil Society: Interaction in Treaty Cooperation in Transnational Governance Negotiation—The Curious Case of Common Chairs and discussants: Markus Jachtenfuchs Article 3” (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Elvira Rosert (Peace Research Institute Studies) and Itay Fischhendler (Hebrew Frankfurt), “The Long Non-emergence of University) the Norm against Cluster Munitions—An Charlotte De Bruyne (Hebrew University), Unintended Effect of the Norms against Napalm “Governance Mechanisms to Address Conflict and Anti-Personnel Landmines?” in Environmental Agreements: The Case of Roundtable: “Transnational Dimensions of Transboundary Water Treaties” Global Governance and the Recognition of the Kathrin Keil (Berlin Graduate School for Palestinian State” Transnational Studies), “Governing the Arctic:

12 The Case of the Arctic Energy Resources” Policy and Ideas (February Joelle Dumouchel (University of Toronto), “The 2012) Genesis of Central Banks as Technologies of An international workshop with Prof. Mark Blyth International Financial Governance” (Brown University) that included four sessions Session 6: Transnational Governance and Non- Post-doctoral students and PhD candidates who state Actors presented in this workshop: Chairs: Galia Press-Barnathan (Hebrew Arie Krampf (Free University of Berlin), University) and Klaus Dieter Wolf (Peace “Explaining Diffusion Processes and Variations Research Institute Frankfurt) Outcome: From Universal to Local Rationalities” Till Cordes (Berlin Graduate School for Dr. Ronen Mandelkern (Van Leer Jerusalem Transnational Studies), “How Credit Rating Institute), “The Interaction between ‘Institutional Agencies Judge Sovereign States” Ideas’ and ‘Policy Ideas’ in Contemporary Macroeconomic Policymaking” Magnus Lundgren (Stockholm University), “Third Party Mediation by IOs and NGOs: Using Eyal Rubinson (Tel Aviv University), “Assuming Information to End Civil Wars?” Multilateral Commitments? Explaining Variations in State Preference for Multilateralism and the Martin Daniel Niemetz (London School of Concept of ‘Security Needs’” Economics), “A Standard Reform of the UN: Creating a Deliberative System” Tami Oren (Hebrew University), “When Do Ideas Matter? Reconsidering the Relations between Roundtable: Where Do We Go From Here? Ideas and Crises” Dubi Kanengisser (University of Toronto), “The Turkey: Between Continuity Evolution of Ideas and the Development of and Change (Nov 2011) Democratic Institutions in Israel” Organized in cooperation with the students’ Roee Kibrik (Hebrew University), “Who Is the committee in the Department of International Sovereign Who Conquers His Desires: The Relations Sovereignty Concept, the Globalization Process, Eli Avidar, Chairman of the Smart Middle and Political Conflicts in Israel/Palestine in the Eastern Forum Last Thirty Years” Anat Lapidot-Firilla, Founder of the Forum for Einat Vadai (Hebrew University), “Balance of the Study of Turkey at the Van Leer Jerusalem Power Is What the Hegemon Makes of It” Institute The following academic staff participated in the Arad Nir (Foreign News Editor, Channel 2) workshop as commentators: Uriel Abulof (Tel Aviv University) The Seventh Annual Graduate Mark Blyth (Brown University) Conference in Political Sharon Gilad (Hebrew University) Science, International Lior Herman (Hebrew University) Relations, and Public Policy Piki Ish-Shalom (Hebrew University) in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (December 2011) Amir Lupovici (Tel Aviv University) Galia Press-Barnathan (Hebrew University) This conference, cosponsored by the Leonard Davis Institute with several partners, was wholly Tal Sadeh (Tel Aviv University) organized and run by the Institute. Michael Shalev (Hebrew University) Gayil Talshir (Hebrew University)

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American Occupation in Netanya Academic College), “Who Decides to Go Comparative Perspective: to War—The Government or the Army?” Japan and Iraq (March 2012) Panel 3: Lebanon’s Representation in Israeli Held in cooperation with the Harry S. Truman Culture Research Institute for the Advancement of Chair: Avraham Sela (Hebrew University) Peace and the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies Raya Morag (Hebrew University), “Waltzing with Bashir: The Death Waltz and Israeli Cinema” The inspiration for this conference came from a successful one-day workshop on the Oren Barak (Hebrew University), “Lebanon American occupation of Japan and Iraq held through the Looking Glass: What Has Israel on February 15, 2010. Following this workshop, Found There?” the organizers felt there was good reason to Dalia Gavrieli-Nuri (Hadassah Academic expand the scope of the project to include other College), “From Operation Peace for Galilee to cases (Germany, Vietnam, the Philippines, the Gaza War: The Names of IDF Campaigns” and Afghanistan) and to address some of the Film screening: Itsik (50 minutes) and a analytical and theoretical issues evolving from conversation with film’s director, Guy Meirson this comparative approach. Although many differences exist between the Japanese and Iraqi cases, several parallel Contentious Politics, issues are worth looking into, such as the role Democratization, and of the (American-drafted) constitution in the Political Change: A transitions of these two countries, the formation Comparative Perspective of the armed forces (with American advisors), (May 2012) relations between America’s position in the Cosponsored with the Harry S. Truman regional context and its occupation of Japan and Research Institute for the Advancement of Iraq, and the demilitarization in Japan and de- Peace and the Liwerant Center Ba’athification in Iraq. The importance of moving beyond a sole focus on the root causes of popular contention is The First Lebanon War 30 underscored by the recent waves of protest in Years Later—A Reassessment the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and (May 2012) other parts of the world, and the divergent trajectories these contentious episodes have Panel 1: Political and Strategic Aspects taken. To better understand these divergent Chair: Ziv Rubinovitz (Hebrew University) sets of trajectories, it is critical to explore Benny Miller (University of Haifa), “The Abortive the intricate and indeterminate relationship State as a Regional Security: The Case of between the impetus of protest and its various Lebanon” outcomes. Despite the similarities in structural Avraham Sela (Hebrew University), “Lebanon conditions among these episodes, we have Delusions: Imagination and Reality in a Regional observed striking dissimilarities in trajectories, View” sequences, and outcomes, ranging from Arye Naor (Hadassah Academic College), “The political reforms and democratization through War’s Aims” coups, military takeovers, and revolutions to civil war and brute repression. Panel 2: Internal Israeli Issues The purpose of the conference was to deepen Chair: Oren Barak (Hebrew University) and advance our understanding of the complex Eitan Alimi (Hebrew University), “Protest in the relationships between the set of initial structural Shadow of War: Does War Constitute an End or a conditions (writ large) that account for the Catalyst for the Political Protest?” willingness to protest and rebel, and the actual dynamics and sociopolitical processes that Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan University), account for how contentious episodes unfold “Reflection on the Morality of the First Lebanon and when they may bring about political change. War” To this end, we consider it critical to explore Reuven Pedatzur (Strategic Dialogue Center,

14 both dimensions that relate to structural, “Third-Reich Diplomats—Racist Foreign Policy” cultural, and sociopolitical conditions (e.g., Arie Kacowicz (Hebrew University), “Diplomatic political economy, state-society interface, History and Latin America: An Extended Peace regional features) and elements that relate in Its Latin Version” to contentious dynamics and processes (e.g., Noam Kochavi (Tel Aviv University and Hebrew mobilization, contention-repression nexus, University), “Returning to Center Stage? The diffusion). Multi-dimensional Renewal of American Stimulated by the recent revolutionary wave Diplomatic History” in the Middle East and North Africa, yet consciously avoiding the erroneous claim that Panel 3: History of International Relations and MENA’s contentious episodes constitute a Other Branches in the Study of History distinct category, this international workshop Chair: Zeev Sternhell (Hebrew University) was oriented toward the advancement of a Martin van Creveld (Hebrew University), “The comparative perspective. To accomplish this, Strange Case of Military History” we brought together scholars and experts from Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University), “Israel’s various parts of the world (e.g., MENA, Latin Economy and the International Arena: The Debt America, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Crisis in Europe, the Cultural Protest, and the Asia), aiming to encourage inclusion of various Geopolitical Element” research styles and strategies (e.g., case/area- specific, cross-national, and/or comparative Moshe Hirsch (Hebrew University), “The Cold historical analysis designs). War and International Law: Central Lessons” Epilogue: Prof. Uri Bialer (Hebrew University), History of International “Israel and Iran: An Emergent Historiography of Relations: A View of a International Relations” Discipline Seminar on the Occasion of Israel in Domestic and Prof. Uri Bialer’s Retirement International Perspectives (May 2012) (June 2012) Panel 1: The Exotic Dimension of Israeli An international conference celebrating the Diplomacy fortieth anniversary of the Leonard Davis Chair: Aharon Kleiman (Tel Aviv University) Institute Zach Levey (University of Haifa), “Israel, Biafra, Israel today represents an array of and Civil War in Nigeria, 1967–1970” contradictions between its image as a powerful Ami Gluska, “Diplomacy and Anti-diplomacy in international actor and its sustained existential the May–June 1967 Crisis” concerns of national identity and security, especially within the immediate Middle East Elad van Gelder, “Logistics and Improvisation region. Israel’s achievements in science and in Israeli Diplomacy—The Issue of Israel’s UN technology, economic development, and Mission, 1948–1956” penetration into old and new international Gadi Heimann (Hebrew University), “An Unholy markets, especially in Central and East Asia— Deal: The Status and Rights of the French and, more importantly, its close alliance and Institutions and the Status Quo in Jerusalem, intimate relations with the U.S.—all make it a 1963–1967” significant international agent regardless of its Panel 2: The Regional Dimension of Diplomacy relatively small human and material resources. Research At the same time, Israel now faces long- Chair: Oren Barak (Hebrew University) neglected issues that threaten its peace at home: continued fragmentation of the political Avraham Sela (Hebrew University), “Intelligence, system and a decreased level of governance Heroic Diplomacy, and the Captain: An Inside alongside continued weakening of social and Look at the 1977–1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace political coherence. All of these have been Process” increasingly manifested in a sense of alienation Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University), from the state and its central symbols and

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institutions on the part of excluded or peripheral Realignment in Israel? Neo-Nationalists vs. social groups, especially Arab citizens. The last Democrats” decade has witnessed a discernible erosion Benny Miller (University of Haifa), “Israel’s of Israel’s international position, calling into Territorial Orientation: Is Israel a Revisionist, question its very legitimacy as a state. On the Status-quo, or Failed State?” regional level, the last few years also underlined the fragility of Israel’s peace treaties with Egypt Day II: State, Society, and and Jordan, as well as its relations with Turkey, Foreign Policy Making primarily because of the continued impasse of Panel 1: The Politics of Identity and Security the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but also due to Chair and discussant: Arie Kacowicz (Hebrew the social and political upheavals in the Arab University) countries since the winter of 2011. Oren Barak (Hebrew University), “Security These contradictory character traits have made Relations in Israel—Looking through the Mirror” Israel, especially since 1967, an increasingly Ron Krebs (University of Minnesota), “Insecurity, attractive subject of study in leading academic War, and Israel’s Democracy” centers, especially—but not exclusively—in Europe and North America. This is manifest in Amir Lupovici (Tel Aviv University), “Reading an ever-growing body of literature addressed Copenhagen School in Israel” by a variety of academic disciplines. Yet despite Panel 2: Diaspora Politics and Foreign Policy: this discernible interest in Israel and the The Case of Israel emergence in recent years of numerous chairs Chair and discussant: Uzi Rebhun (Hebrew of Israel studies in leading universities in the University) United States and the United Kingdom, Israel is still studied as a sui generis case rather than Gabriel Sheffer (Hebrew University), “Israel, in comparative perspective. Hence, much of the Jewish Diaspora, and Foreign Policy in a the Israeli academic research focuses on the Comparative Perspective” history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israeli Natan Aridan (Ben-Gurion University of the society and politics, with little or no interest in Negev), “Working Out the Relationship—Israel its role at the international level or as related to and Its Advocates: Converging and Diverging contemporary issues in our age of globalization Paths from AIPAC to J-Street” and the quest for a just world order. Yossi Shain (Tel Aviv University), “Jewish By combining inside-out and outside-in Politics in Transition: The Shifting Character approaches to, and perceptions of, Israel’s of the Division of Labor between Israel and the policies and international conduct, the Diaspora” conference addressed more general questions pertaining to the relationship between the Panel 3: Democracy and Civil and Collective domestic and international arenas. This Rights: The Case of the Arab Minority discussion is warranted especially in view of Chair and discussant: Uriel Abulof (Tel Aviv the significant social, economic, and political University) transformations in Israel, the Middle East, and Ifat Maoz (Hebrew University), “Planned the international system in the last two decades, Encounters between Israeli Jews and Arabs: An and we attempted to assess the impact of these Overview” changes on Israeli perceptions and policies on Oded Haklai (Queen’s University), “State- both the regional and international levels. Minority Relations in Israel: The Challenge of Day I: Israel in Its Sixties: Internal Palestinian Nationalism” Between Past and Present Hillel Frisch (Bar-Ilan University), “Israel’s Geo- Chair and discussant: Itzhak Galnoor (Hebrew strategic Setting: Israel and Its Arab Citizens” University and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) Amal Jamal (Tel Aviv University), “Redefining Alan Dowty (University of Notre Dame), the Jewish State and the Hollowing out of “International Perspectives of the First Zionist Palestinian Citizenship” Settler” Panel 4: Israel and the World Powers Naomi Chazan (Truman Institute), “Political Chair and discussant: Uri Bialer (Hebrew

16 University) Questions from the Israeli Experience” Kenneth Stein (Emory University), “U.S.- Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov (Hebrew University), Israeli Relations, 1947–2010: The View from “Justice and Morality in Peace-making” Washington” Alex Mintz, Shaul Mishal, and Nadav Morag Guy Laron (Hebrew University), “The Politics of (IDC Herzliya), “Polythink: Israeli Decision Reconciliation and Intimidation: Israeli-Soviet Making at Camp David 2000 and Beyond” Relations, 1963–1977” Panel 4: How Should We Study Israel? Ziv Rubinovitz (Hebrew University), “The Past Is Present: Between Ideology and Political Chair and discussant: Galia Golan (IDC Herzliya) Realism—The U.S.-Israel Friction over P. R. Kumaraswamy (World Security Network), Menachem Begin’s Autonomy Plan and the “Teaching Israel to the Other” Moratorium on Settlement Activity” Kenneth Stein (Emory University), “How We Stephan Stetter (University of Munich), “EU- Study Israel” Israel Relations” Avraham Sela (Hebrew University), “Studying Israel Inside-out and Outside-in” Day III: Israel in International Perspective Panel 1: The State of Conflict, International GUEST LECTURERS Organizations, and Norms—Israel between November 2011 Compliance and Defiance Prof. Tanja Börzel and Prof. Thomas Risse Chair and discussant: Gad Barzilai (University of (Free University of Berlin) Haifa) “When Europeanization Meets Diffusion: Amichai Magen (Stanford University), Exploring New Territory” “Theorizing External Influence on Legal and Institutional Development in Israel” December 2011 Janice Gross Stein (University of Toronto), Dr. Udi Levi (The Inter-ministerial Committee “Inside Out: Israel as the Exposed Nerve of the to the Warfare of Terrorism Finance and International Legal Order” Proliferation, National Security Council) Robbie Sabel (Hebrew University), “Israel and “Bermuda Triangle: Saudi Arabia, Muslim UN Resolutions” Brothers, and Da’wah”

Panel 2: Israel in a Globalizing Economy— June 2012 Opportunities and Constraints Dr. Peter Krause (Boston College) Chair and discussant: Galia Press-Barnathan “The Political Effectiveness of Non-state (Hebrew University) Violence: Paradox, Polarity, and the Pursuit of Lior Herman (Hebrew University), “Pecunia Power” non Olet: Israel and the Global Anti-money- laundering Regime” VISITING PROFESSORS’ Alfred Tovias (Hebrew University), “Which LECTURES IN THE FIELD OF Economic Anchor Works Best: The EU or the GENDER, INTERNATIONAL OECD?” CONFLICT RESOLUTION, AND Uri Bialer (Hebrew University), “The Power of PEACE the Weak: Israel’s Secret Oil Diplomacy, 1948– Prof. Kristen P. Williams (Clark University), 1957” January 2012 Panel 3: Israel and Its Non-state Neighbors— “Challenging Gendered Norms: Women and Dimensions of Conflict and Peace Political Violence vs. Women Working for Peace” Chair and discussant: Shlomo Hasson (Hebrew University) Feminist international relations scholars ask the question “Where are the women?” They do Yael Aronoff (Michigan State University), “The so because traditional international relations Challenges of Asymmetric Conflict: Continuing research often renders women invisible when,

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in actuality, women are not only present but about the ways in which we can understand the deeply affected by critical international relations choices people make, regardless of biological topics pertaining to security, war, and conflict sex? What does this tell us about the ways that resolution. gender is socially constructed? How do women’s Professor Williams examined several questions: actions fit within the “traditional” stereotypes What factors lead some women to choose of women and women’s choices regarding violence as opposed to working for peace? Are political violence? And, ultimately, does women’s the factors that result in women perpetrating participation in conflicts, either as combatants acts of violence different for women than they or working for peace, change the nature of the are for men? Do women and men conceive conflict—and if so, how? of security differently? What does this tell us

18 Annual Events

CARMON PRIZE CEREMONY Held January 2012 Keren Sasson was awarded the Carmon Prize for her thesis, “Complicated Relations between Religious Fundamentalism and the Phenomenon of Globalization” at the Leonard Davis Institute’s forty-second annual Carmon Prize ceremony. During the ceremony, Mr. Isaac Levanon, former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt, gave personal testimony on the revolution in Egypt as well as a lecture on Israeli-Egyptian relations before and after the revolution and what can be expected in the future.

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ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE 2012–2013 ACADEMIC YEAR From the Director

I wish to start on a personal note. Ten years the memorial symposium that gathered several ago I was a post-doctoral researcher at the of Yaacov’s numerous former students and Leonard Davis Institute (LDI). Coming back colleagues. Other events are listed with fuller to the Institute as its director is a personal details in the report. privilege and challenge and, no less important, In addition to conferences, the Institute hosted it is an opportunity to repay the Institute for all several renowned scholars for short-term the academic and scholarly goods it granted me, durations in which they taught courses for enabling me to embark on an academic career. the students and addressed the university This was a transitional year for the Institute, in community. We benefited from the presence which a new team took over from the previous of Janice Gross Stein (Munk School of Global team. It was a year of study, reviewing the Affairs, University of Toronto), J. Ann Tickner activities of the Institute and its priorities, and a (University of Southern California and American year of setting institutional aims for the future. University; funded by the gender forum), and This transition is reflected in the limited number Ron Krebs (University of Minnesota). Other of public events, as well as a number of new scholars visited the university on behalf of the categories of activities that reflect my vision Institute and addressed the public, enabling for a more accessible Institute, one which is an an academic exchange of ideas and thus active participant in the public discourse. enriching the intellectual environment. Taking In terms of public events, the Institute part in these activities were Larry Diamond sponsored and hosted several key events at the (Stanford University), Renee Marlin-Bennett Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A detailed list (Johns Hopkins University), Amnon Aran (City appears in the report itself. However, I wish to University London), Michael N. Barnett (George highlight the following two events: The Eighth Washington University), and Barak Mendelsohn Annual Graduate Conference in Political (Haverford College). Science, International Relations, and Public In the field of publications, the Institute publishes Policy in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin and the the bi-annual periodical Politika, which is one of “Talking Peace” symposium in memory of Prof. the very few academic journals to be published Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov. in Hebrew in this field. Under the directorship of The graduate conference has become a very Avraham Sela, Politika underwent digitalization; successful tradition, attracting dozens of today it is an open access journal, which helps graduate students from Israel and abroad. It to broaden its readership and its potential public has become a hub consisting of many panels influence. In terms of public reach, the Institute and workshops in which the students convene, launched a new and exciting project. Cooperating present, and collect comments from the faculty, with ynet, Israel’s most widely read news site, who give of their knowledge. The Institute’s the Institute solicits op-eds from academic contribution to the success of the conference experts in various fields related to international is invaluable in terms of finance, logistics, and relations to be published on a special channel participation of scholars. called Megalim Olam (discovering the world). Ynet has published roughly twenty such op-eds The memorial symposium was convened in on topics such as globalization, war discourse, memory of Prof. Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, who Indonesia, feminism, China, Bolivia, Japan and passed away unexpectedly earlier this year. soft power, the UN, and Senegal. The op-eds Yaacov was very active in Israel’s academic were written by Israeli scholars and by scholars circles and in the policy-making world. Among from other countries, such as the U.S., Canada, his many posts and activities, Yaacov was the Germany, and Spain (translated into Hebrew by director of Institute for six years (1997–2002) and the Institute). Among the contributors we note expanded the Institute’s activities. It was with renowned scholars such as Zeev Maoz and Amitai great sadness that we learned of Yaacov’s death, Etzioni (a full list of articles is available online at and it was with deep respect that we convened

20 http://davis.huji.ac.il/?cmd=publications.0&act= very popular course on gender and war. Another read&id=209). It is my intention to maintain this course on related issues was delivered by J. venture, broadening the topics, the contributors, Ann Tickner, the forum guest who also gave a and the readership, and thus strengthening the public address. In addition, when Sarai Aharoni, impact of academia in general and the Institute in Galia Press-Barnathan, and I met with Alan particular on Israeli public discourse. Davis and Mary Lou Dauray in San Francisco in No less important were the Institute’s enduring April 2013, we also met prominent international efforts to assist scholars early in their careers, gender scholars, including J. Ann Tickner, first by granting fellowships to doctoral Jacqui True (Monash University), Valerie M. students, and second by offering post-doctoral Hudson (Texas A&M University), and Galia Golan research positions. The Leonard Davis Institute (Hebrew University and IDC). In the meeting, supported seven doctoral students, among them we discussed ways to increase the efficiency of two from the new prestigious TELEM program. the gender forum and its impact. The plans for The program is a budding graduate school and next year are to increase the number of gender enrolls the very top doctoral students from the post-doctoral researchers to three, and that Departments of International Relations and will allow for more extensive work and broader Political Science. Next year, the Institute will public reach. support four TELEM doctoral students and four With an eye to the future and with the vision of or five additional outstanding students from further expanding the Institute’s reach, we plan different departments who study and research to approach a new audience, the undergraduate topics in international relations. The Institute students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. serves, further, as the intellectual home for four This is fertile ground that has not yet been post-doctoral researchers, one of whom belongs explored by the Institute. Consequently, the to the gender forum. Merav Amir (gender Leonard Davis Institute initiated an innovative forum), Orit Gazit, Menahem Merhavy, and interdisciplinary course for outstanding Lior Herman conduct their research (detailed BA students. The course is meant to allow in the report), work towards peer-reviewed exceptional BA students to form thinking groups, publications, and serve as the scholarly heart advised by the Institute’s post-doctoral scholars, of Institute. Now more than ever before, post- and explore various international issues. This doctoral positions are a necessary phase of initiative was approved by the Faculty of Social the academic training. It is the stage in which Sciences and will be launched in the upcoming young scholars can work towards publishing, academic year. With this, I hope to be able to be without which they would not be qualified for a more accessible to the undergraduate students tenure-track position. Understanding the crucial and establish more fruitful relations with them. need for such positions, the Institute will host Last but not least, I would like to warmly thank six post-doctoral students (including three in the Institute’s academic committee, which the gender forum) next year, three of them from has helped me to navigate the Institute in this abroad. Considering that until recently there transitional year, especially Chairman Arie were only two such positions, the Institute’s Kacowicz, Dean Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, and shifting priorities due to the changing nature of Department of International Relations’ Chair global academia are clear. Oren Barak. In addition, I want to thank the These remarks lead me to the Sophie Davis administrative director, Chanoch Wolpe, and his Forum on Gender, International Conflict assistant Marwa Natsheh. Both took the helm Resolution, and Peace. This year the forum in very difficult circumstances and made it all began its activities with the help of Sarai Aharoni possible—including what seemed to me to be (who will be a full-time post-doctoral researcher impossible. next year) and Merav Amir. Both participated in Piki Ish-Shalom several events, and Sarai Aharoni delivered a

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Research Grants and Scholarships

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS on the relationship between gender and Dr. Orit Gazit, “Border international trade in services. He will be Cultures in Conflict Zones” joining the Department of International Relations at Hebrew University this summer Dr. Gazit studies the intersection between (July 2013) as a tenure-track lecturer. His international relations and sociology, focusing research focuses on international trade and on the fields of international migration, services, EU-Mediterranean relations, regional diasporas, citizenship, and transnational cooperation, and international governance and identity. As a Leonard Davis post-doctoral fellow institutions. He teaches courses on international for the 2012–13 year, she has been conducting and European political economy, as well as a study on border cultures within conflict zones international trade and economic integration. as distinct social entities adhering to a unique set of identities, norms, practices, and power structures. Dr. Menahem Merhavy, “Myth- making in the Middle East” Dr. Gazit received her BA, MA, and PhD in sociology and anthropology and international Dr. Merhavy is a post-doctoral fellow at the relations, as well as a law degree (LLB), from Leonard Davis Institute for International the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2011 Relations. He is currently working on the she was awarded the Rothschild (Yad Hanadiv) regional functions of national myth-making post-doctoral fellowship, and conducted a two- in Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. In this research, he year post-doctoral study in UCLA’s International offers a regional perspective on the efforts of Institute and Department of Sociology, where these three states to inculcate historical myths she has also taught courses on international among their middle class. He further examines migration and the sociology of Israeli society. the transgression of the boundaries between different states in the region, as well as between Her doctoral dissertation explored the identity cultural and political boundaries within the of the South Lebanese Army (SLA) in Israel, a societies involved. group of Maronite Christians from the Israeli “security zone” in South Lebanon who fled to His dissertation discusses the political Israel following the Israeli withdrawal from the implications of historical myth-making in area in May 2000. Her master’s thesis examined modern Iran in the second half of the twentieth political exiles from Latin America in Israel. She century. In it, he analyzes the dynamics of has also researched and written about Ethiopian indoctrination in Iran in this specific period, immigrants in Israel. while emphasizing the regime’s utilization of history in its quest for legitimacy. He Dr. Gazit’s recent publications include “From also examines and analyzes the methods of a Militia to a Diasporic Community: The indoctrination in formal and informal education Changing Identity of the South Lebanese Army” and the ethos that is supposedly inculcated in in Miodownik and Barak (eds.), Brothers in Iranians from different walks of life. At present, Arms: Volunteers, Diasporas, and Conflict in he is tracing the legacy which the Pahlavi period the Greater Middle East (forthcoming); “Power has left behind in the Islamic Republic of Iran. and Examination: A Critique of Citizenship Tests” in the journal Security Dialogue (with Dr. Merhavy received his PhD from Tel Aviv Oded Löwenheim; 2009), and the edited volume University’s Department of Middle Eastern and Collective Identities, States and Globalization—A African History, the Center for Iranian Studies. Tribute to S. N. Eisenstadt (with Gad Yair; 2010). His MA studies were completed at Hebrew University in the Department of International Relations, the Contemporary Middle East Dr. Lior Herman, “Gender and Program. International Trade” Dr. Herman is a post-doctoral fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute conducting research

22 RESEARCH GRANTS arrangements in different international Dr. Eitan Alimi, “Process economic law agreements. These are Tracing Al-Qaeda: An arrangements that, although phrased in an Integrative Approach impartial manner, had a clear distributive for Explaining Political objective to favor a certain country or group Radicalization” of countries (typically along the developed/ developing distinction). The focus of this research is the attempt to The first objective is to establish the long- explain political radicalization, employing the term impact of several significant biased case of Al-Qaeda and its activity within the arrangements. Dr. Benshalom wishes to explore broader Salafi transnational jihad movement, their unintended consequences in the dynamic between the years of 1988 and 2001. Attempting and rapidly changing world economy—where to develop a more nuanced and comprehensive countries’ relative economic positions shift explanation to the radicalization of Al-Qaeda, more quickly than ever before. He plans to this study argues that interactive and ideational establish this by discussing various biased explanations must be combined, and a focus arrangements—namely the taxation of interest must be placed on the causal mechanisms by the country in which the borrower resides of each, as these developed and influenced and rules related to investors’ protection in the patterns of contention and conflict. The international investment regime. methodology of the research focuses on three types of information and data: 1) information The second objective is to derive a more regarding changes in the strategic-political policy-oriented conclusion from the above situation and positioning of Al-Qaeda and analysis. Dr. Benshalom will argue that a new its ability to further its goals, along with understanding of distributive arrangement can information about changes and trends in the allow policymakers to facilitate more stable and organization’s contacts and ties with other effective international economic agreements. organizations within the broader movement; 2) information regarding statements and claims Dr. Yoram Haftel, “Regional made by the organization’s leaders throughout Economic Organizations and the years, in order to learn about changes in Security Institutions in a worldviews and ideological patterns; and 3) Comparative Perspective” information about the organization’s contentious The proliferation of regional economic activity, along with the responses of different organizations (REOs) is one of the most local and international security forces. The prominent features of the contemporary research utilizes vast databases and searches, international environment. Many of these including governmental reports, research organizations aspire to promote regional peace institute archives, newspapers, and international and stability. Some REOs strive to promote media archives—along with secondary sources— these goals only through economic cooperation and combines these data types for analysis and integration, while others use agreements and interpretation. This allows for a deeper and mechanisms that address security understanding of Al-Qaeda’s radicalization concerns more directly. A glance at the security process, shifting from a defensive, primarily components of such regional organizations non-violent organization into an organization indicates that they are very diverse in terms of willing to enact the harshest type of political purpose, design, and level of implementation. violence—categorical and indiscriminate suicide In light of this variation, this project addresses terrorism. two related questions: 1) why do some REOs “nest” security organs in their mandate while Dr. Ilan Benshalom, others facilitate cooperation only on economic “Distributive Reversals” and functional issues, and 2) what explains The study examines the positive role of the differences in the design of security distributive arrangements within various substructures incorporated into REOs? The international economic law agreements. theoretical framework considers the incentives It analyzes a number of biased distributive for and constraints on regional cooperation. With respect to incentives, this framework emphasizes

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the type and severity of security challenges have significant effects on the evolution of as well as the benefits of linking economic jihadist terrorism and its threat to Europe. and security issues in a unified institutional The research is descriptive in nature, employing framework. In regards to constraints, it highlights qualitative methodology. The work plan includes the distribution of regional power and the role of the following steps: a “hegemon.” This framework is then evaluated 1. Creation of a database to analyze the with a combination of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of jihad-inspired terrorist methods. activity in Europe since 9/11, including the type of terrorist organization responsible. Dr. Javier Jordan, 2. Compiling information, comparing, and “International Terrorism’s systemizing terrorist activity from the data Organizational Structure: available in the press, legal documents, Analysis of Its Evolution and summaries of think-tanks, and in-depth Implications for European interviews with key informants. Security” 3. Making the obtained data usable and The study’s objective is to recognize the inputting it in the database. importance that formal terrorist organizations 4. Analyzing results, coming to conclusions, have in the characterization and evolution of the and publishing results through publications, jihad-inspired terrorist activity in EU territory. seminars, and creation of a public-access This objective is reached by examining the web page. question: What importance do formal terrorist organizations have in the characteristics and evolution of the jihad-inspired terrorist activity in Dr. Guy Laron, “Is the U.S. EU territory? Addressing Its National From this main objective two different goals Interest by Backing Israel are distinguished. The first goal is to analyze or Is It the Case That Its Pro- the importance of formal organizations (for Israeli Stance Is Forced example, Al-Qaeda and other associated upon It by the Pressure of groups) in the evolution and continuity of jihadist a Powerful Jewish Lobby on terrorist activity in the EU. The results of the Capitol Hill?” investigation should contribute to the design and Dr. Laron’s study focuses on Israeli-U.S. relations approach of public policy directed to deactivate in the 1970s. It aims to answer one of the perennial this source of social problems. questions which hover over the relationship Moreover, the second goal of the study is to between the U.S. and Israel: Is the U.S. addressing create a publicly accessible database on jihadist its national interest by backing Israel or is its pro- terrorist activity in the EU. Terrorist activity is Israeli stance forced upon it by the pressure of a identified in a limited manner as the planning, powerful Jewish lobby on Capitol Hill? Put another preparation, and possible execution of terrorist way: do domestic politics or realpolitik drive attacks; communicative action (propaganda) America’s Israel policy? and logistic functions (for example, financing, The research discusses these questions by document falsification, or recruitment and examining Israel-U.S. relations during the shipment of volunteers outside the territory of years 1967–1979, a period in which a closer the EU) are excluded. Israeli-American alliance was forged. The The study’s hypothesis is as follows: formal interim conclusions are that in some ways terrorist organizations do excellent work in both arguments are valid. Domestic politics the mobilization and management of human and realpolitik were both important factors. and material resources; diffusion of expert Israel was effective in using the Jewish lobby knowledge; and inspiration, planning, and only when Israeli interests overlapped those coordination of the jihadist networks’ activity of American presidents. When interests and that threatens the security of European citizens agendas collided, Washington was successful within EU territory. In this way, the success or in coercing Israel. This pattern was particularly failure of formal terrorist organizations could noticeable when the U.S. intervened in the Arab- Israeli peace process.

24 Dr. Rafi Nets-Zehngut, “The in Haifa Port: Was the Global War on Terror Israeli-Jewish Popular Good for (Some) Women?” which was based Memory of the Conflict” upon her findings. Dr. Nets-Zehngut’s research examines the In April she participated in a workshop on popular memory of Israeli Jews regarding “Women, Violence, and War” at the University twenty-four major events and issues in the of San Francisco; an edited volume from the Israeli/Arab-Palestinian conflict. These events workshop will include Dr. Aharoni’s chapter took place from the late nineteenth century until titled “Strange Defeats, Broken Alliances, today, and include, for example, the quality of Failed Peace: Methodological Issues in the relations between the Jewish pioneers and the Study of Gender in Israel/Palestine.” In addition, local Palestinians, the causes for the eruption due to her work on gender in Jerusalem she of different wars (focusing on various aspects of had recently joined two EU research projects the 1948 war), sincerity in peace negotiations, coordinated at Lund University, Sweden, titled and purity of arms on the battlefield. This “Contested Administrations, Conflict Resolution, is done by analyzing the findings of a public and the Improvement of Democracy” and opinion survey which was conducted among a “Contested Cities: Challenges to Post-conflict representative sample of this population. During Peacebuilding and Development.” Finally, the survey, additional information about the an article titled “Internal Variation in Norm interviewees’ psychological characteristics was Localization: Implementing Security Council collected, such as their values, their feelings Resolution 1325 in Israel” was accepted this towards Arabs/Palestinians, the extent of their year for publication in Social Politics. attachment to the Jewish nation and to Israel, and their ability to accept new information Dr. Merav Amir, “A Critique of (in addition to the usual socio-demographic the Securitizing of Conflicts characteristics). This information allows us and Conflict Resolution to examine the connection, correlation, and from a Gendered Perspective” causality between these characteristics and (Post-doctoral Researcher) popular memory. Dr. Amir is a post-doctoral fellow of the Forum on Gender, International Conflict Resolution, SOPHIE DAVIS FORUM ON and Peace in the Leonard Davis Institute. She GENDER, INTERNATIONAL received her PhD from the Cohn Institute for CONFLICT RESOLUTION, AND the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas PEACE: RESEARCHERS AND and from the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Sarai Aharoni, “Gender, Her dissertation examines the concept of the Territory, and Terror in border in the context of Israel. Her publications Israel: Women and the Second include: “The Making of a Void Sovereignty: Intifada” (Research Grant) Political Implications of the Military Checkpoints Dr. Aharoni’s research grant was used to in the West Bank,” in Environment and Planning retrieve archival materials and statistical data D: Society and Space (2013); “On the Border for three chapters of the book Gender Terror of Indeterminacy: The Separation Wall in East and Territory in Israel: Israeli Women and the Jerusalem,” in Geopolitics 16:4 (2011); and Second Intifada. These sources will also be “Between Imaginary Lines: Technologies of used to develop three articles for independent Power at the Israeli Checkpoints,” in Theory, publication. The themes included in the book’s Culture and Society 28:1 (with Hagar Kotef; chapters are (a) U.S. Sixth Fleet visitations in 2011). Haifa port (1978–2001); (b) Jerusalem—a case study of gender and urban warfare; and (c) Israeli women’s attitudes towards the separation wall (longitudinal analysis of data from 2004). In March 2013, Dr. Aharoni presented an initial draft of a paper titled “Marines and Prostitutes

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Prof. Raya Morag, “Collective contextual investigation. Putting forth various Trauma and Ethno-Religious representations of corporeality, it enables Conflicts in World Cinema the interrogation of ethno-religious identities (1990–2010)” (Research Grant) by exploring how both male and female corporeality is affected by conflict through ethnic Prof. Morag’s research describes how world violence, human rights violations, terrorism, cinema has rendered ethno-religious conflicts state violence, and rape. Transcending the over the last two decades. With the end of the impasse in current research in regard to Cold War major transformations in Europe multiculturalism, this research focuses on the occurred, such as the emergence of a new, body as a witness and a primal “mediator” of the post-9/11 global order, and the decline of the new post-traumatic ethnicities in the aftermath nation-state, socio-national solidarity, and of conflict. Analyzing the corporeality in highly traditional national consciousness. Major violent and traumatic conflict zones reawakens concepts with respect to nationality, trans- contentious questions concerning some of the nationality, ethnicity, and rationality have harsher results of globalization and the global undergone drastic changes. Consequently, agenda in matters such as human rights, forms the paradigm of multiculturalism and multi- of hatred, ethnocide, and ideocide. religiousness has experienced an acute crisis. In these transformative decades, ethno-religious conflicts have restructured identity discourses SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DOCTORAL to a degree that would have been unthinkable STUDENTS before the collapse of the Communist bloc or The Leonard Davis Institute sponsors and the civilization clash following the destruction finances the Department of International of the World Trade Center. Cinema, especially Relations’ endeavor to provide the Faculty documentary cinema, often becomes the sole of Social Sciences with scholarships for means of verifying events such as genocide, doctoral students. This contribution reflects ethnocide, and serious human rights violations the Institute’s close cooperation with the in conflict zones. This pioneering study analyzes Department of International Relations. This the cinema of conflict in different regions, year’s doctoral students receiving scholarships such as the former Soviet Union, Macedonia, are: Serbia-Montenegro, Afghanistan, and China. It Shani Bar-Tuvia also illustrates how cinema breaks the societal processes of repression and exclusion of the Charlotte De Bruyne collective traumas that these conflicts entail, Yonatan Freeman and how it structures various ethno-religious Yiftach Govreen post-traumatic identities. Roee Kibrik This research is also groundbreaking in Aviad Levy terms of methodology. The new perspective Mor Mitrani proposed—corporeal feminism—references both the global comparison and the local- Odelia Oshri

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POLITIKA (IN HEBREW) as “flesh and blood” people who constantly interpret their changing social and political Politika is a digital peer-reviewed journal realities, and might contribute to a multilayered of Israeli political science and international discussion of non-state actors which takes into relations that addresses timely issues affecting account their micro-social and hermeneutic both Israel and the world. aspects, in addition to their macro-political Issue No. 23 (SUMMER 2013), position and influence. General Issue (FORTHCOMING) The upcoming issue of Politika (23) is a unique one, bringing together articles written by BOOKS researchers young and old who took part in Book Launch Event the Eighth Annual Graduate Conference in The Leonard Davis Institute for International Political Science, International Relations, and Relations organized a ceremony to celebrate the Public Policy in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, publishing of Dr. Arie Kacowicz’s book: which was held at the Hebrew University Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth: of Jerusalem in December 2012. The issue The Latin American Experience, 1982–2008 focuses on intergenerational political discourse, (Cambridge University Press, 2013) assembling articles written by researchers who The effects of globalization on poverty and are just starting out as well as experienced inequality are a key issue in contemporary academics. Moreover, this issue also offers international politics, yet they have been new perspectives on subjects and issues neglected in international relations and which stand at the center of the contemporary comparative politics literatures. Arie Kacowicz political agenda, including civil protest, changes explores the complex relationships between in democracy, and characteristics of internal globalization and the distribution of wealth as ethnic conflicts. a political problem in international relations, analyzing them through the prism of poverty and WORKING PAPERS IN ENGLISH inequality. He develops a political framework Dr. Orit Gazit, “Non-state Actors, Identity, and (an “intermestic model”) which captures the Change: The South Lebanese Army between interaction between the international and the Lebanon and Israel” domestic domains and explains those effects with a particular emphasis upon the state and This working paper focuses on the case of its relations with society. He also specifies the the South Lebanese Army, a local militia different hypotheses who collaborated militarily with Israel in the about the possible Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon for links between over a quarter of a century since the 1970s. globalization and the Following Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in distribution of wealth May 2000, this militia has transformed into an and tests them in external non-state actor—a Lebanese diasporic the context of Latin community residing within the Israeli state. America during the Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork years 1982–2008, among this understudied community in Israel, with a particular the paper analyzes the identity change that focus on Argentina has occurred among its members. It thus and the deep crisis highlights the constant evolution of non-state it experienced in actors across time and space, as their interests, 2001–2. identities, and practices change following the dynamic circumstances of the intrastate conflict in which they are embedded, as well as according to intra-organizational dynamics. The paper portrays the members of these entities

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Activities of the Institute

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, Day II: AND SEMINARS Formal Opening Session Memory of Conflict and War Session 1: Panels 1–3 in 1948 among Palestinians Panel 1: Putin’s Russia and Israelis (November 2012) Panel 2: Issues in Political Theory This special seminar addressed the collective Panel 3: Education Policies and Their Impact memory of Palestinians and Israeli Jews with regard to the Israeli Arab/Palestinian, Session 2: Panels 4–7 especially regarding the 1948 war. In this Panel 4: Politics and Law framework a distinction was made between Panel 5: Immigration Policies and Politics in different groups among the two communities. Europe For example, the Palestinians were grouped Panel 6: Identity and Nationalism into those living within Israel and abroad, supporters of Hamas and Fatah, the 1948 Panel 7: Managing Security—Conceptual and generation and subsequent generations; among Historical Dimensions Jewish Israelis, the population was split into Session 3: Panels 8–11 secular and religious and the 1948 generation Panel 8: Civil Wars and following generations. Various aspects Panel 9: Foreign Policy Analysis of these memories—such as their causes, characteristics, and influence—were discussed Panel 10: Contested Spaces in the three following lectures: Panel 11: Issues in Political Sociology Dr. Rafi Nets-Zehngut, “Israeli Memory of the Session 4: Panels 12–14 1948 Palestinian Exodus and the Conflict” Panel 12: Electoral Politics Iman Abu-Hanna Nahhas, “Differences and Panel 13: Political Psychology Similarities in 1948 Memory between Different Generations of Palestinians from Israel” Panel 14: Seeking Legitimacy—States, International Organizations, and Non-state Meir Litvak, “Nakba Memory among Actors Palestinians: Continuity and Change” Concurrent Workshops The Eighth Annual Graduate Workshop 1: The Theory and Practice of Real Conference in Political Existing Democracies Science, International Workshop 2: Political Participation, Civic Relations, and Public Policy Democracy, and Public Policy: Assessing Citizen in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin Participation and Public Policy (December 2012) Workshop 3: Challenges to Global Governance This conference, cosponsored by the Leonard Workshop 4: Ideas in Governance and Davis Institute, was wholly organized and run by Governance by Ideas the Institute. Workshop 5: Issues in Modern German Social Day I: and Political Thought The Method Workshop Day Workshop 6: The Arab Spring: An Opportunity Political Decision-Making Workshop to Renew the Research Agenda with Respect to Middle East Politics? The Basics and Beyond: Writing and Publishing Research Papers Workshop 7: Jewish Political Thought Workshop 8: Regulation and Governance

28 Workshop in collaboration Talking Peace: Symposium in with the Israeli Association of Memory of Prof. Yaacov Bar- Political Science (May 2013) Siman-Tov (June 2013) The Leonard Davis Institute organized a one-day Opening Remarks workshop. Institute director, Dr. Piki Ish-Shalom, along with some of the Institute’s researchers Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi (Hebrew University) and post-doctoral fellows, met with Dr. Larry Piki Ish-Shalom (Hebrew University) Diamond. Diamond talked about his experience Oren Barak (Hebrew University) in promoting democracy in the world and the Middle East. The event was then opened Panel 1: to a discussion with the participation of the Chair: Piki Ish-Shalom (Hebrew University) researchers. Eran Etzion (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), “Foreign Policy Concept”

Cuba—Myth and Reality: Panel 2: Students’ Panel Culture, History, Politics (May 2013) Chair: Arie Kacowicz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Leonard Davis Institute was a partner and Ofir Lang (Hebrew University), “Hope in the supporter of the conference along with other Process of Decision Making in War Situations: A academic institutes. Comparison between Leaders” Day I: Gallia Lindenstrauss (Tel Aviv University), Session 1: Cuban History “Turkey-Israel Relations: Interests, Feelings, and in Between” Session 2: Literature I Daniel Sobelman (Hebrew University), Session 3: Literature II “Asymmetric Conflict Management between a Evening Program: Reading of poems and prose State Actor and a Non-state Actor: Israel and Hizbollah” Day II: Session 1: Medicine Panel 3: Chair: David Bar-Gal (Hebrew University) Session 2: Screening of The Chosen Island (presented by Mayra Levi and Maritza Raymond Cohen (Hebrew University), Corrales) “Reflections on Religion and Conflict Resolution” Daniel Bar-Tal (Tel Aviv University), “Why Is It so Session 3: Jews in Cuba Hard to Promote a Peace Process? The Role of Session 4: Music and Film Psychological and Social Barriers” Evening Program: Screening of Memorias del Subdesarrollo (1968) GUEST LECTURERS Day III: November 2012 Prof. Janice Gross Stein (Munk School of Global Session 1: Transnationalism and Re- Affairs, University of Toronto) diasporization: The Cuban Exile in the U.S. and the Jewish Experience “Bridging the Sacred and the Profane in Humanitarian Life” Session 2: International Relations Session 3: Screening of Memorias del December 2012 Desarrollo (2010). Presentation by author of Prof. Ron Krebs (University of Minnesota) book, Edmundo Desnoes. “Ethnic Violence: Why Neighbors Kill Neighbors”

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January 2013 “What is ‘American’ about American Jewish Internationalism?” Dr. Renee Marlin-Bennett (Johns Hopkins University) “Embodied Information and Knowing Bodies” May 2013 March 2013 Dr. Barak Mendelson (Haverford College) “Dominant Violent Non-state Groups in a Competitive Dr. Amnon Aran (City University London) Environment: Insights from Israeli and Palestinian “From Cold Peace to Strategic Peace? Egyptian Foreign Experience” Policy towards Israel since 1981” May 2013 STUDENTS’ LECTURES Prof. J. Ann Tickner (University of Southern California The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and American University) and the Department of International Relations at the “Gendering International Relations” Hebrew University of Jerusalem organized a lecture for the student body. May 2013 “Nuclear Iran: Inevitable Conflict?” (November 2012) Prof. Michael N. Barnett (Elliott School of International With the participation of: Dr. Avi Segal, Dr. Tamar Eilam Affairs, George Washington University) Gindin, and Mr. David Shain

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CARMON PRIZE CEREMONY Held May 2013 At the Leonard Davis Institute’s forty-third annual Carmon Prize ceremony, Emmanuelle Blanc was awarded the Carmon Prize for her thesis, “The EU in Motion through Emotions: The Influence of Fear on the European Migration Policy towards the Mediterranean Countries.” The Carmon Prize is awarded in recognition of an outstanding MA or PhD thesis on Israel’s security policy in the Middle East. During the ceremony, Brigadier General Yuval Zur, the former assistant commander of Israel’s navy, gave a lecture on “Water Space in Constant Movement.”

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