Research and publications

Scholarship:

Dissertation book project

Not Just War: Normative Theory of Democratic Civil-Military Relations

Articles

Is Terrorism Necessarily Violent? Public Perceptions of Nonviolence and Terrorism in Conflict Settings. (2023). Political Science Research and Methods. w. Alon Yakter https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2023.22 

Citizenship, Enmity, and the Normative Theory of Domestic Military Use (2022). Armed Forces and Society https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X221120048

Under Review:

Democratic Backsliding, Bureaucratic-Disobedience, and “the Right to Be Wrong” Conception of Civilian Control of the Military 

Militarism, Civilianism, and Democratic Civil-Military Relations 

Beyond the Freedom of the Press (w. Justin Pottle)

Working papers:

Rethinking the Civic Republican Argument for Peacetime Military Conscription

Work in Progress:

Civil-Military Relations Lessons from the Israeli 2023 Reservists Protest (w. Risa Brooks)

Suckers: A moral and Political Treatment (w. Shai Agmon)

Research and Policy:

• “Don’t Assume Hamas’ Attack was a Miscalculation”, World Politics Review, November 29, 2023. https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/hamas-attack-israel-war/ 

• “How Military Leaders Can Navigate a Crisis of Democracy: Lessons from the Reservist Protests in Israel.” Just Security, August 17, 2023. https://www.justsecurity.org/87683/how-military-leaders-can-navigate-a-crisis-of-democracy-lessons-from-the-reservist-protests-in-israel/  (w. Risa Brooks)

• “The Israeli Military’s Democratic Dilemma.” Foreign Affairs, May 9, 2023. (w. Risa Brooks) https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israeli-military-democracy-benjamin-netanyahu 

• Civil Service in Times of Constitutional Crisis (In Hebrew). The Israeli Law Professors’ Forum for Democracy.  2023. (w. David Enoch, Barak Medina, Alexandre Kedar, Adam Shinar). https://bit.ly/3XMMJgV  

• “Israel as the First ‘Intelligence State’”. Liberal Magazine. April 2022. https://bit.ly/3xYCsDi 

• “Road Map” (In Hebrew). Telem 4. August 2020 (w. Shai Agmon). https://telem.berl.org.il/720/  

• The Right Said: “Give Up Hope” (In Hebrew). Telem 1. June 2019. https://telem.berl.org.il/91/. English translation available at https://www.israel-peace.com/skeptic-doves/ 

• Israel’s National Security and West Bank Settlements. Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy. December 2017 (w. Yonatan Levi and Shai Agmon). https://rb.gy/e2066e 

• The Strategic Balance of Israel’s Withdrawal from Gaza (2005–2016). Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy. August 2016. https://rb.gy/aee8b9  

• Why the Nuclear Deal is Good for Israel. Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy. July 2014. https://rb.gy/a7e72d