I am a Liberalism Rekindled postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ruderman Family Foundation Scholar in Residence and Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. My research lies at the intersection of normative political theory and politics, with a special focus on democratic civil-military relations. My current book project is a normative theory of democratic civil-military relations.
In my book project, I shine a normative light on the domestic role of the military for civilian control, the use of the military for non-defensive purposes, police militarization, military recruitment, and the making and sustaining of equal democratic citizenship. To illuminate these problems, I draw on scholarship across international relations, comparative political science, and military sociology and economics, placing it in conversation with contemporary democratic theory. My interest in the normative dimensions of these questions is complimented by my empirical and descriptive research into Israeli civil-military relations and Israeli public opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I regularly engage in public scholarship on issues related to my research as well as Israeli foreign policy and politics. This includes work with leading Israeli think tanks, invited policy contributions and media appearances, and regularly publishing analyses in magazines and news outlets such as Haaretz, Foreign Affairs, and World Politics Review.