Research
Current Projects & Working Drafts
Israel, Palestine and the Problem of Jewish Fear
Publications
Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique (Oxford University Press, 2012).
“After Tragedy: Melodrama and the Rhetoric of Political Realism” Journal of International Political Theory (2018), online-before-print, DOI: 10.1177/1755088218790987
“After First Principles: The Sociological Turn in International Relations as Disciplinary Crisis.” in The Sage Handbook of the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of International Relations, eds. Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Nicholas Onuf (Sage, 2018), pp. 296-310; with Alexander Barder.
“Threat Inflation as Political Melodrama: ISIS and the Politics of Late Modern Fear” Critical Studies in Security 6:1 (2018), 136-54; reprinted in Daniel Bertrand Monk (ed.): Who’s Afraid of ISIS: Toward a Doxology of War (Routledge, 2018).
“Why Does Pluralism Matter when we Study Politics? A View from Contemporary International Relations,” Perspectives on Politics 16:1 (2018), pp. 92-109; with David M. McCourt.
“Defending ‘Planet Politics’ [A Reply to our Critics],” Millennium 46:2 (2018), pp. 209-19; with Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel, Audra Mitchell, and Simon Dalby.
“‘These Days of Shoah’: History, Habitus, and Realpolitik in Jewish Palestine, 1942-43,” Political Power and Social Theory 32 (2017), pp. 99-125.
“Recasting Worldliness in International Theory: Vocation, Non-Identity, Finitude.” International Studies Review 19:4 (2017), 714-17; contribution to symposium under the editorship of Andrew R. Hom.
“Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR.” Millennium, 44:3 (June, 2016), 499-523; with Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel, Audra Mitchell and Simon Dalby.
“Between Late Style and Sustainable Critique: Said, Adorno and the Israel-Palestine Conflict.” In Reflexivity in International Relations, ed. Jack Amoreux and Brent J. Steele (Routledge, 2015).
"The Apocalyptic Sting and the Rise of Israeli Unrealism: Toward a Negative-Dialectical Critique," Globalizations 11:5 (December 2014); special issue on dialectics in world politics, ed. Shannon Brincat, pp. 643-659.
“The Closing of the American Mind: ‘American School’ International Relations and the State of Grand Theory,” with Alexander Barder. European Journal of International Relations 20 (December, 2014), pp. 863-888.
“Why Hans Morgenthau was not a Critical Theorist (and why Contemporary IR-Realists Should Care.” International Relations 27:1 (March, 2013), pp. 95-118.
"'The World is Too Much With Us:' The Depoliticizing of Via Media Constructivist IR." Millennium 40:3 (June 2012), pp. 580-599. (with Alexander Barder)
"International Theory and the Problem of Sustainable Critique: An Adornian-Biblical Parable." Borderlands 10:1 (Spring, 2011).
“Constructing the Myth of Egyptian-Israeli Brotherhood: Ali Salem’s Drive to Israel.” Moises Salinas and Hazza Abu Rabi (eds.): Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Perspectives on the Peace Process (Cambria, 2009).
“Munich: Warp-Speed Storytelling and the War on Terror.” Theory & Event, 9:3 (Fall, 2006). (review essay)
“Security in the Shadow of the Dove: the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Society in an Era of Peace.” in Meron Benvenisti (ed.): The Morning After, (Jerusalem: Hebrew University/Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, 2002), Hebrew.
“Why the Jews!? The History of Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred.” Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 4:3 (1995), pp. 92-7. (review essay; with Shlomo Giora Shoham)
Reviewer for Contemporary Political Theory, International Relations, International Political Sociology, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of International Relations & Development, Millennium, Perspectives (Czech Rep.)
- Yale H. Ferguson Award, International Studies Association-Northeast Region, November 2013 (shared with Zheng Wang’s Never Forget National Humiliation)
- Sussex International Theory Prize, Center for Advanced International Theory at the University of Sussex, June 2013
- Honorable mention, International Theory Section Book Award, International Studies Association, January 2014
- Honorable mention, Charles Taylor Book Award, Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group of the American Political Science Association, September 2013
- Honorable mention, International Ethics Section Book Award, International Studies Association, April 2013
“After Tragedy: Melodrama and the Rhetoric of Political Realism” Journal of International Political Theory (2018), online-before-print, DOI: 10.1177/1755088218790987
“After First Principles: The Sociological Turn in International Relations as Disciplinary Crisis.” in The Sage Handbook of the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of International Relations, eds. Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Nicholas Onuf (Sage, 2018), pp. 296-310; with Alexander Barder.
“Threat Inflation as Political Melodrama: ISIS and the Politics of Late Modern Fear” Critical Studies in Security 6:1 (2018), 136-54; reprinted in Daniel Bertrand Monk (ed.): Who’s Afraid of ISIS: Toward a Doxology of War (Routledge, 2018).
“Why Does Pluralism Matter when we Study Politics? A View from Contemporary International Relations,” Perspectives on Politics 16:1 (2018), pp. 92-109; with David M. McCourt.
“Defending ‘Planet Politics’ [A Reply to our Critics],” Millennium 46:2 (2018), pp. 209-19; with Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel, Audra Mitchell, and Simon Dalby.
“‘These Days of Shoah’: History, Habitus, and Realpolitik in Jewish Palestine, 1942-43,” Political Power and Social Theory 32 (2017), pp. 99-125.
“Recasting Worldliness in International Theory: Vocation, Non-Identity, Finitude.” International Studies Review 19:4 (2017), 714-17; contribution to symposium under the editorship of Andrew R. Hom.
“Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR.” Millennium, 44:3 (June, 2016), 499-523; with Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel, Audra Mitchell and Simon Dalby.
“Between Late Style and Sustainable Critique: Said, Adorno and the Israel-Palestine Conflict.” In Reflexivity in International Relations, ed. Jack Amoreux and Brent J. Steele (Routledge, 2015).
"The Apocalyptic Sting and the Rise of Israeli Unrealism: Toward a Negative-Dialectical Critique," Globalizations 11:5 (December 2014); special issue on dialectics in world politics, ed. Shannon Brincat, pp. 643-659.
“The Closing of the American Mind: ‘American School’ International Relations and the State of Grand Theory,” with Alexander Barder. European Journal of International Relations 20 (December, 2014), pp. 863-888.
“Why Hans Morgenthau was not a Critical Theorist (and why Contemporary IR-Realists Should Care.” International Relations 27:1 (March, 2013), pp. 95-118.
"'The World is Too Much With Us:' The Depoliticizing of Via Media Constructivist IR." Millennium 40:3 (June 2012), pp. 580-599. (with Alexander Barder)
"International Theory and the Problem of Sustainable Critique: An Adornian-Biblical Parable." Borderlands 10:1 (Spring, 2011).
“Constructing the Myth of Egyptian-Israeli Brotherhood: Ali Salem’s Drive to Israel.” Moises Salinas and Hazza Abu Rabi (eds.): Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Perspectives on the Peace Process (Cambria, 2009).
“Munich: Warp-Speed Storytelling and the War on Terror.” Theory & Event, 9:3 (Fall, 2006). (review essay)
“Security in the Shadow of the Dove: the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Society in an Era of Peace.” in Meron Benvenisti (ed.): The Morning After, (Jerusalem: Hebrew University/Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, 2002), Hebrew.
“Why the Jews!? The History of Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred.” Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 4:3 (1995), pp. 92-7. (review essay; with Shlomo Giora Shoham)
Reviewer for Contemporary Political Theory, International Relations, International Political Sociology, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of International Relations & Development, Millennium, Perspectives (Czech Rep.)
Academic Presentations
“‘These Days ofShoah:’ History, Habitus, and Realpolitik in Jewish Palestine, 1942-43,” Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), May 2017; Johns Hopkins University Faculty Seminar, April 2017; American Political Science Association Annual Conference, August, 2017; Florida International University Faculty Seminar, October 2017; University of Alabama Faculty Seminar, February 2018
“Reification and Blues: Perspectives on ‘Thingification’ as Concept and Practice in International Studies,” Roundtable Chair, International Studies Association, Baltimore, February 2017
“Planet Politics 2: Ethical & Philosophical Challenges of a New Earth,” Roundtable participant, International Studies Association, Baltimore, February 2017
“Threat Inflation as Political Melodrama: ISIS and the Politics of Late Modern Fear,” The War Seminar, Colgate University (via electronic interlink), September 2016
“Alone in History: Historicism and the Birth of Israeli National Security Doctrine,” Workshop on History and Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science, April 2016
“Subversive Concepts in Military Practices: Revolution or Hot Air?” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 2016
“Critical Theory and Peace,” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 2016
“After Tragedy: Melodrama and the Rhetoric of Political Realism,” Parsing the Passions Workshop, International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 2016; Critical Theory and Political Realism Workshop, University of Aberystwyth, January 2016
“Should we Stay or Should We Go Now: The Future of International Studies and Political Science?” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association Northeast, Providence, November 2015
“IR Sucks at Methodology: Discuss,” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association Northeast, Providence, November 2015
“Tragedy in the Time of Melodrama: Realism, Rhetoric and the Nuclear Condition,” Minnesota International Relations Colloquium, October 2015; University of Alabama Colloquium in Politics, September 2015; Classical Realism Meets Critical Theory Workshop, Virginia Tech, June 2015
“Reflexivity And International Relations: Reflexive Scholarship, Reflexive Politics,” Roundtable participant, International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2015
“Critical Strategic Studies: On The Use Of Critical Scholarship By Strategists,” Roundtable participant, International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2015
“Toward a Chastened Account of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Constellating (and Critiquing) the Concept of Jewish Fear,” paper presentation at the International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2015
“Sadna d’Ara Chad Hu [For the Foundation of the Land is All One],” paper presentation for the International Studies Association Northeast Region, Baltimore, November 2014
Author/Critics Roundtable on Jennifer Mitzen’s Power in Concert, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Baltimore, November 2014
“The Apocalyptic Sting, Critical Realism, and the Politics of Jewish Fear,” paper presentation, delivered to the Workshop on Classical Realism and Critical Theory, University of Ottawa, June 2014
“Rigorous Dilettantes: Said, Adorno and the Vocation of International Theory,” paper presentations at the Symposium Reflexivity and International Relations, University of Utah, March 2014
"Sustainable Critique and the Politics of Jewish Fear in Israel-Palestine." Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture, Centre for Advanced International Theory at the University of Sussex, February 2014
“Sustaining a Worldly Middle Ground: Israel, the Apocalyptic Sting, and the Vocation of Critical International Theory,” Paper presentations at International Studies Association, Toronto, March 2014; Aberystwyth University, February 2014; International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013; American Political Science Association, August 2013 (via Skype)
“Why Does Hans Morgenthau Matter Now?” Roundtable at the International Studies Association, Toronto, March 2014
Author/Critics Panel on Recovering International Relations, Roundtable at the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013
“‘A Bridge Too Far?’ Theorizing Caution along the Borders of the Academy,” Roundtable presentation, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013
“The Closing of the American Mind: ‘American School’ IR and the State of Grand Theory,” paper presentation, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013
“Rigorous Dilettantes: Said, Adorno and the Vocation of International Theory,” paper presentation, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013
“Aesthetic Interventions: Chastening Scholem’s ‘Apocalyptic Sting,’” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 2013
“Imagining the Futures of 'Critical IR Theory,” Roundtable at the International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 2013
“The Resounding Silence: Israel’s Elections, the Statist-Radical Divide, and the Zombie Apocalypse,” roundtable at the Alabama International Relations Seminar, April 2013
"Toward the Sustainably Critical Study of World Politics: Ethics, Methods and Problems." University of Southern California Center for International Studies, January 2013
"'Dangerous Neighborhood:' Operation ‘Defensive Pillar’ and its Interpreters," roundtable discussion at the Alabama International Relations Seminar, November 2012
"Reading and thinking with Sjoberg’s and Tickner’s Feminism in International Relations," Roundtable comments for the International Studies Association - Northeast, November 2012 (text; images)
“‘Yes, but how should we feel about this?’ Diasporic Love, Political Radicalism and the Sustainably Critical Study of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Millennium Conference, London School of Economics, October 2012
Interview with Dan Nexon on Recovering International Relations, Duck of Minerva, September 2012
“The Realist Dilemma: Politics and the Limits of Theory.” Reinventing Realism Conference, Edinburgh, UK, June 2012 (via Sykpe). (video; conference website)
“Hayward Alker, Friendship, and Normative International Theory Now,” Roundtable presentation, International Studies Association, San Diego, April 2012
“Message, We Care: Reification, the Vocation of International Theory and the ‘Post-Paradigmatic’ Turn,” International Studies Association, San Diego, April 2012
“‘Yes, but how should we feel about this?’ Diasporic Love, Political Radicalism and the Sustainably Critical Study of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” International Studies Association, San Diego, April 2012
“Notes from an Interdiscipline: Teaching Peace and Conflict Studies,” Roundtable at the International Studies Association, Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Providence, November 2011
“Ethical Eclecticism; or, Fragmenting International Theory,” Millennium Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 2011 (via Skype); International Studies Association 2012 conference, San Diego, March 2012.
“‘The World is Too Much With Us’: Reification and the Depoliticizing of Constructivist IR,” Millennium Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 2011 (with Alexander Barder; via Skype)
“The Return of the Depressed: Why Hans Morgenthau was not a Critical Theorist,” British International Studies Association (BISA), Manchester, April 2011 (via Skype); Colgate University Institute of Politics, Philosophy and Economics summer workshop, June 2011
“Pragmatism, Post-Foundational International Theory and the Problem of Reification,” BISA/IRSS Workshop on Scientific Practice, Ethics and International Relations, McGill University, March 2011
Northeast Scholars' Circle Roundtable on Recovering International Relations, International Studies Association Northeast Region, November 2010
“Sustainable Critique and the Vocation of International Relations,” International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, February 2010
“Ethical Complexity: Sustainable Critique and the Vocation of International Relations,” American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference, Toronto, September 2009
“Punditry as a Vocation: Adorno and Non-Conceptual Studies of World Politics,” International Studies Association, Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Baltimore, October 2008
“Towards a Chastened International Theory: The Constellar Approach to World Politics,” Poster presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference (APSA), Boston, August 2008
“Ambivalent Dialecticism: Adorno, Genesis 34, and the Problem of Reification IR Theory,” International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, March 2008
“Constructing the Myth of Egyptian-Israeli Brotherhood: Ali Salem's Drive to Israel, the Biblical Exodus, and the Problems of Peace,” First International Academic Conference on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pathways to Peace, Farmington CT, March 2008
“‘Shall one make a whore of our sister?’ Genesis 34 as a ‘Melian’ Parable for Critical IR Theory,” International Studies Association, Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Philadelphia, November 2007
Chair, Graduate Colloquium in Politics, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2006-2007
“Reification and Blues: Perspectives on ‘Thingification’ as Concept and Practice in International Studies,” Roundtable Chair, International Studies Association, Baltimore, February 2017
“Planet Politics 2: Ethical & Philosophical Challenges of a New Earth,” Roundtable participant, International Studies Association, Baltimore, February 2017
“Threat Inflation as Political Melodrama: ISIS and the Politics of Late Modern Fear,” The War Seminar, Colgate University (via electronic interlink), September 2016
“Alone in History: Historicism and the Birth of Israeli National Security Doctrine,” Workshop on History and Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science, April 2016
“Subversive Concepts in Military Practices: Revolution or Hot Air?” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 2016
“Critical Theory and Peace,” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 2016
“After Tragedy: Melodrama and the Rhetoric of Political Realism,” Parsing the Passions Workshop, International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 2016; Critical Theory and Political Realism Workshop, University of Aberystwyth, January 2016
“Should we Stay or Should We Go Now: The Future of International Studies and Political Science?” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association Northeast, Providence, November 2015
“IR Sucks at Methodology: Discuss,” Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association Northeast, Providence, November 2015
“Tragedy in the Time of Melodrama: Realism, Rhetoric and the Nuclear Condition,” Minnesota International Relations Colloquium, October 2015; University of Alabama Colloquium in Politics, September 2015; Classical Realism Meets Critical Theory Workshop, Virginia Tech, June 2015
“Reflexivity And International Relations: Reflexive Scholarship, Reflexive Politics,” Roundtable participant, International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2015
“Critical Strategic Studies: On The Use Of Critical Scholarship By Strategists,” Roundtable participant, International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2015
“Toward a Chastened Account of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Constellating (and Critiquing) the Concept of Jewish Fear,” paper presentation at the International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2015
“Sadna d’Ara Chad Hu [For the Foundation of the Land is All One],” paper presentation for the International Studies Association Northeast Region, Baltimore, November 2014
Author/Critics Roundtable on Jennifer Mitzen’s Power in Concert, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Baltimore, November 2014
“The Apocalyptic Sting, Critical Realism, and the Politics of Jewish Fear,” paper presentation, delivered to the Workshop on Classical Realism and Critical Theory, University of Ottawa, June 2014
“Rigorous Dilettantes: Said, Adorno and the Vocation of International Theory,” paper presentations at the Symposium Reflexivity and International Relations, University of Utah, March 2014
"Sustainable Critique and the Politics of Jewish Fear in Israel-Palestine." Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture, Centre for Advanced International Theory at the University of Sussex, February 2014
“Sustaining a Worldly Middle Ground: Israel, the Apocalyptic Sting, and the Vocation of Critical International Theory,” Paper presentations at International Studies Association, Toronto, March 2014; Aberystwyth University, February 2014; International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013; American Political Science Association, August 2013 (via Skype)
“Why Does Hans Morgenthau Matter Now?” Roundtable at the International Studies Association, Toronto, March 2014
Author/Critics Panel on Recovering International Relations, Roundtable at the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013
“‘A Bridge Too Far?’ Theorizing Caution along the Borders of the Academy,” Roundtable presentation, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013
“The Closing of the American Mind: ‘American School’ IR and the State of Grand Theory,” paper presentation, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013
“Rigorous Dilettantes: Said, Adorno and the Vocation of International Theory,” paper presentation, International Studies Association Northeast Region, Providence, November 2013
“Aesthetic Interventions: Chastening Scholem’s ‘Apocalyptic Sting,’” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 2013
“Imagining the Futures of 'Critical IR Theory,” Roundtable at the International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 2013
“The Resounding Silence: Israel’s Elections, the Statist-Radical Divide, and the Zombie Apocalypse,” roundtable at the Alabama International Relations Seminar, April 2013
"Toward the Sustainably Critical Study of World Politics: Ethics, Methods and Problems." University of Southern California Center for International Studies, January 2013
"'Dangerous Neighborhood:' Operation ‘Defensive Pillar’ and its Interpreters," roundtable discussion at the Alabama International Relations Seminar, November 2012
"Reading and thinking with Sjoberg’s and Tickner’s Feminism in International Relations," Roundtable comments for the International Studies Association - Northeast, November 2012 (text; images)
“‘Yes, but how should we feel about this?’ Diasporic Love, Political Radicalism and the Sustainably Critical Study of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Millennium Conference, London School of Economics, October 2012
Interview with Dan Nexon on Recovering International Relations, Duck of Minerva, September 2012
“The Realist Dilemma: Politics and the Limits of Theory.” Reinventing Realism Conference, Edinburgh, UK, June 2012 (via Sykpe). (video; conference website)
“Hayward Alker, Friendship, and Normative International Theory Now,” Roundtable presentation, International Studies Association, San Diego, April 2012
“Message, We Care: Reification, the Vocation of International Theory and the ‘Post-Paradigmatic’ Turn,” International Studies Association, San Diego, April 2012
“‘Yes, but how should we feel about this?’ Diasporic Love, Political Radicalism and the Sustainably Critical Study of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” International Studies Association, San Diego, April 2012
“Notes from an Interdiscipline: Teaching Peace and Conflict Studies,” Roundtable at the International Studies Association, Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Providence, November 2011
“Ethical Eclecticism; or, Fragmenting International Theory,” Millennium Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 2011 (via Skype); International Studies Association 2012 conference, San Diego, March 2012.
“‘The World is Too Much With Us’: Reification and the Depoliticizing of Constructivist IR,” Millennium Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 2011 (with Alexander Barder; via Skype)
“The Return of the Depressed: Why Hans Morgenthau was not a Critical Theorist,” British International Studies Association (BISA), Manchester, April 2011 (via Skype); Colgate University Institute of Politics, Philosophy and Economics summer workshop, June 2011
“Pragmatism, Post-Foundational International Theory and the Problem of Reification,” BISA/IRSS Workshop on Scientific Practice, Ethics and International Relations, McGill University, March 2011
Northeast Scholars' Circle Roundtable on Recovering International Relations, International Studies Association Northeast Region, November 2010
“Sustainable Critique and the Vocation of International Relations,” International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, February 2010
“Ethical Complexity: Sustainable Critique and the Vocation of International Relations,” American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference, Toronto, September 2009
“Punditry as a Vocation: Adorno and Non-Conceptual Studies of World Politics,” International Studies Association, Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Baltimore, October 2008
“Towards a Chastened International Theory: The Constellar Approach to World Politics,” Poster presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference (APSA), Boston, August 2008
“Ambivalent Dialecticism: Adorno, Genesis 34, and the Problem of Reification IR Theory,” International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, March 2008
“Constructing the Myth of Egyptian-Israeli Brotherhood: Ali Salem's Drive to Israel, the Biblical Exodus, and the Problems of Peace,” First International Academic Conference on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pathways to Peace, Farmington CT, March 2008
“‘Shall one make a whore of our sister?’ Genesis 34 as a ‘Melian’ Parable for Critical IR Theory,” International Studies Association, Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Philadelphia, November 2007
Chair, Graduate Colloquium in Politics, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2006-2007
Public Policy/Weblogs
- “On Writing ‘These Days of Shoah’: History and Fear, Then and Now,” Relations International, posted 12 June 2017
- “Resist Reification,” contribution to the edited forum “Can World Politics Save Planet Earth,” posted 22 May 2017
- "Remedial Math (2): More on the Israeli Elections of 2015,” Relations International, posted 24 March 2015 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk); republished on Critical Inquiry
- "Remedial Math: The Israeli Elections of 2015,” Relations International, posted 16 March 2015 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk); republished on Critical Inquiry
- "Daniel Levine on Hidden Hands, Vocation and Sustainable Critique in International Relations," Interview with Peer Schouten for Theory Talks, October 2013
- “Not Aufklärers but Dilettantes: Reading Michael C. Williams’s ‘In the Beginning…’” Duck of Minerva, posted 17 September 2013
- "'Dangerous Neighborhood:' Operation ‘Defensive Pillar’ and its Interpreters," Duck of Minerva, posted 28 November 2012 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk)
- “The End of the Israeli Spring,” Foreignpolicy.com, posted 12 September 2011 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk)
- “An Israeli Spring?” Contemporarycondition.blogspot.com, posted 5 September 2011 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk)
- “The Ugly Stalemate: The Gaza Flotilla and Israel's Conservative Adventurism,” Contemporarycondition.blogspot.com, posted 14 June 2010 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk)
- “There’s No ‘There’ There: The Retreat of the Israeli State and US Mideast Peace Policy,” Foreignpolicy.com, posted 3 May 2010 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk)
- “Israel-Palestine: No More Honest Brokers,” Contemporarycondition.blogspot.com, posted 1 April 2010 (with Daniel Bertrand Monk)
- "Arab-Americans Aren’t Our Enemy,” The Jerusalem Report, May 21, 2001
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
- Kluge Center for Scholars Fellow, Library of Congress, 2016-17
- Research Grants Committee Award, the University of Alabama, May 2014
- Associate, Center for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, April 2013
- Travel Grant, Center for International Studies, University of Alabama, Fall 2012 & 2013
- Helen Dwight Reid Award for Best Dissertation in the Field of International Relations, Law and Politics, American Political Science Association, June 2011
- Discretionary Research Grant, Colgate University Research Council, Spring 2011
- Northeast Scholars' Circle Honoree, International Studies Association-Northeast Region, November 2010
- McCoy Prize for Most Distinguished Graduate Student Paper, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2006
- Jewish Studies Prize Teaching Fellowship, Jewish Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2006
- Marshall-Baruch Fellowship, for study of Arabic at the University of Jordan, George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington VA, Summer 2005
- Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, May 2005
- McCoy Prize for Most Distinguished Graduate Student Paper, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2004
- Stulman Jewish Studies Fellowship, Jewish Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, 2003-2005, and Summer 2006
- Research Fellowship, Morning after Project, Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University, 2000-01
