Davis Graduate Program Students
Academic Staff
Devorah Manekin
Dr.
Devorah
Manekin
Head of The Davis Graduate School of International Relations (TELEM IR)
Areas of research: political violence, conflict processes, and post-conflict transition and reconstruction, with a focus on the Middle East.
MA Students
Saar Cohen
Saar
Cohen
Pyung hwa (Tim) Park Kidron
Pyung hwa (Tim)
Park
Kidron
Uri Kidron
Uri
Kidron
Guy Nisenzon
Guy
Nisenzon
Samar Qasasfeh
Samar
Qasasfeh
Yael Ram
Yael
Ram
Noam Vatarescu
Noam
Vatarescu
PhD Students
Jason Aaron Silverman
Research interests: Non-state violent actors and their interactions with state actors, particularly Hezbollah and Hamas. International relations of the MENA.
Lee Amram-Eilat
Jonathan Ariel
Jonathan
Ariel
DGSIR PhD Student
Main academic interests: International and regional cooperation through institutions and in particular; Institutional Design, International Trade, and Energy Regionalism. His geographic focused is the European Union but also includes to a lesser extent Sub-Saharan Africa and North America for comparison purpose.
Yulia Arport
Research interests: international political economy, geopolitics of energy, sanctions, political aspects of foreign investments.
Roni Berkowitz
In her doctoral dissertation, Roni examines the
impact of Chinese multinational corporations on
globalization, specifically focusing on how these
entities translate economic power and financial
investments into social outcomes.
impact of Chinese multinational corporations on
globalization, specifically focusing on how these
entities translate economic power and financial
investments into social outcomes.
Enav Birnbaum
Research interests: Critical security studies, ethnic conflicts and micro politics. More specifically, she employs a variety of methods to examine the ways in which street names in Jerusalem have reflected a social and political agenda since the establishment of Israel.
Yonatan Brander
Research interests: International relations theory; security studies; diplomatic history; American foreign policy; origins of major wars; the Middle East; relationship between ideology and material power; proliferation and military technology; deterrence theory; religion and IR; sports and IR; American and Jewish history.
Remi Daniel
Research interests: relations between Turkey and Israel (between 1960 and 1980 for the thesis, but also other periods). Also international relations in the middle east, Turkish political history and foreign policy, linkage politics, nationalist movements, Quebec studies.
Ron Deutch
Research interests: The political theology of modern Islamist groups, strategic culture in Islam and the Middle East, rationality and decision making, the international relations of the Middle East.
Dan Eran
Research interests: International political economy, international relations theory and computational social science. More specifically, Dan focuses his research on the effects of international institutions on countries' expectations and reputations.
Jony S. Essa
Ph.D. Thesis Title: The Role of Armed Forces Autonomy during the Arab Spring. Jordan, Syria and Egypt in a Comparative and Historical Perspective. Additional Research interests: Contemporary middle eastern military history, conflict processes (ethno-political conflict and civil wars); the state, society and security in the Middle East.
Abir Gitlin
Daphne Inbar
Research interests include; Critical security studies, international practice theory, resistance and political agency in IR. Her dissertation focuses on national security whistleblowers. More specifically, she is interested in the transnational politics involved in the practice and process of these whistleblowers 'unauthorized disclosure'.
Amit Leibson
Research interests: Just war theory, theories of international relations, constructivism, sociology of the discipline.
Morr Link
Research interests: international political economy, international organizations and the global investment regime, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, and the contestation of the international liberal order. Her dissertation explores the positions and attitudes of MENA countries towards the global investment regime using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Shirley Lukin
Climate Change Politics, The role of cities in
global governance of climate change.
global governance of climate change.
Naama Lutz
Research interests: The international processes of “naming and shaming” and the actors and mechanisms involved, looking specifically at the interaction between states and transnational advocacy networks.
Bar Nadel
Research interests: International political economy, with emphasis on trade policy. I investigate the effects of individual-level trade preferences over policy outcomes. I also research the impact of media content on trade preferences, and how various interest groups communicate their messages to different publics.
Inbar Noy
Research interests: Discourse and textual analysis in International Relations, interstate friendship, and international norms. Her dissertation's main topic is the social construction of peace and the representation of peace in political discourse.
Yuval Peleg
Research interests: Theories of hegemonic powers, relations between hegemonic and rising or great power states, power vacuum in international politics, Chinese foreign policy and relations with regional and international organizations, Israel's relations with great powers and power projection in the Middle East, and military history.
Inbar Pincu
I specialize in Security Studies, and Securitization in particular. Given the great depth of research invested in ‘Securitization Success’, I am interested in exploring and contributing to the underdeveloped concept of ‘Securitization Failure’.
To better understand what constitutes ‘Securitization Failure’ and the reasons for it, in my research I investigate the attitudes towards and the discourse around Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), as a case study of ‘Securitization Failure’.
Ofek Riemer
Research interests: Intelligence Studies, with a particular interest in secrecy and publicity in International Relations; Cultural approach to IR (Strategic Culture and Ontological Security); Middle Eastern Politics, with a focus on Lebanon and Hezbollah. His doctoral dissertation engages states' public use of intelligence.
Daniel Segal
Daniel
Segal
DGSIR PhD Student
Research interests: Critical security studies, social theorizing of coalition making; ontological security, homophily and heterophily in IR; securitization strategies and discourse analysis.
Neta Strunin-Kremer
Cyber conceptualization and an examination of the effect of the cyber domain and the interaction that occurs in it by various international actors
Avraham Swissa
Research interests: Cyber security, internet governance, popular culture.
Neal Tsur
Research interests: Timing of civil unrest, tipping points, prediction, complex systems, sociophysics modeling, ABM simulations, NLP Machine Learning and deep learning methodology, big data.
Meital Viner
Gendered Aspects of Interpersonal
Communication in Diplomacy, Gender,
Diplomacy, Political Anthropology.
Communication in Diplomacy, Gender,
Diplomacy, Political Anthropology.
Tom Ziv
Research interests: Religion and international relations, Israeli diplomacy and the relations between Israel and the Evangelical world.
Davis Graduate Program Graduates
Shani Bar-Tuvia
Dr.
Shani
Bar-Tuvia
DGSIR Graduate
The empirical focus of her PhD project is the interaction between Israel’s asylum and refugee policies, and polices of other “Western” states in Europe, Australia and the US. Theoretically, it engages with two main fields: international norms and policy diffusion. Mainly, it explores how restrictive asylum policies diffuse among states and what are the normative consequences of this process.
Aviad Levi
Dr.
Aviad
Levi
Department of International Relations
DGSIR Graduate
His research focuses on the role of the emotion of schadenfreude, the pleasure in other’s misfortunes, in international politics. Aside from dealing with the general theoretical aspects of emotions’ studies in international relations, he concentrates on the particular social-psychological dimensions of Israeli-European relations
Hila Levi
"The economy is too important to leave to the economists" - An Organizational Culture Perspective on the European Central Bank and the Eurozone Crisis Management. My dissertation examines the role of organizational culture in explaining the marginal attention paid to social concerns accompanying the austerity measures prescribed in order to cope with the Eurozone crisis (2009–12). My research interests include the role and responsibility of international financial institutions concerning human rights; organizational culture of intergovernmental organizations; international political economy; European Union; Eurozone crisis; European institutions; Latin America.