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Nov 2024 • Book
Expedition Escape from the Classroom: Political Outings on the Campus and the Anxiety of Teaching IR
AbstractDespite facing profound teaching anxiety stemming from the politically intense surroundings in Israel and his own writer’s block, Oded Löwenheim crafted an innovative college course that breaks free from the traditional classroom setting to explore the depths of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus campus. He takes his class—and by extension, the reader—to explore the political
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1 Oct 2024 • Journal Article • Territory, Politics, Governance
Flexible compliance: utility and legitimacy in Jerusalem
AbstractDisadvantaged residents in contested cities often mistrust and resist official authorities due to historical deprivation. However, their urgent needs compel them to approach municipal bodies, both formally and informally, exhibiting ‘flexible compliance’. Through interviews with Palestinians and a public opinion survey in Jerusalem, we analysed the preferences of
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1 Oct 2024 • Journal Article • Energy Research & Social Science
The paradox of permission: Why governments allow foreign actors to promote solar energy projects in disputed cities
AbstractThis article examines why foreign actors promote rooftop photovoltaic (PV) projects in cities characterized by ongoing ethno-national conflicts, and why the host government accepts these projects despite viewing them as undermining its sovereignty. It finds that foreign aid providers increasingly view off-grid PV technology as a low-cost solution for helping the embattled
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14 Sep 2024 • Book Chapter • The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry
Dual Use of Space Technology: A Challenge or an Opportunity? Space Commercialization in the US After the Cold War
AbstractThis chapter explains why and how changes in the security environment after the Cold War affected the growing trend toward space commercialization in the US. The primary argument is that throughout the Cold War, the US government mainly perceived the dual-use characteristic of space technology as a threat to national security. Thus, it closely monitored technology
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10 Sep 2024 • Preprint • OSF Preprints
Listen for a Change? A Longitudinal Field Experiment on Listening's Potential to Facilitate Persuasion
AbstractScholars and practitioners widely posit that listening to other people facilitates efforts to persuade them. Listening may facilitate persuasion by promoting cognitive processing, reducing defensiveness, and improving perceptions of the persuader. However, empirical tests of this widely-theorized hypothesis are surprisingly scarce. We review the case for and against
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9 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • International Affairs
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism
AbstractThe study of populism's international links has grown significantly. Yet, there are gaps in conceptualizing potential implications for the international order. Our study contributes to filling this gap by asking: if a ‘populist international order’ (PIO) were to emerge, and populists could envision the world close(r) to their liking, what would this order look like? We
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9 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • International Affairs
The effects of global populism: assessing the populist impact on international affairs
AbstractWith the global rise to power of populist leaders over the past decade, research on populism, including its international implications, has flourished. However, we still lack a nuanced understanding of the international effects of this new populist wave. The special section that this article introduces seeks to bridge this gap by systematically examining three types of
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5 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • Progress in Planning
Energy infrastructures in divided cities
AbstractWithin the rich literature on politically divided cities, infrastructure has rarely featured as a medium of urban contestation. Only transportation infrastructure has merited attention of late. This paper presents an in-depth investigation of energy infrastructures as instruments of separation, control and collaboration in three iconic divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem
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3 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • Human Rights Law Review
The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations
AbstractBuilding on an independent database of 180,000 UN recommendations and a novel computational method, we present the most comprehensive study of human rights (HR) debates to date. We develop a unique empirical model that measures topical density of discourse. This innovative instrument measures the discursive activity of UN HR bodies through a machine-learning textual
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21 Aug 2024 • Book Chapter • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science
Israeli Space Program: Assessing the Civilian Space Program Over the Last Decade
AbstractOver the past decade, economic trends in global space activity advanced greater commercialization and prompted established spacefaring nations to rapidly adapt their space strategies and programs. This is an underresearched area, especially concerning small states. Following a 2008 industry crisis, Israel’s space program, initially driven by national security concerns
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