Nir Rotem is a transnational sociologist specializing in knowledge, globalization, and social theory. He wrote his dissertation about the UNHCR at the University of Minnesota and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations. His current research agenda delves into the rise of illiberal global norms. This project seeks to understand whether illiberalism emerges from local contexts or diffuses through the institutional structures promoting liberalism.

 

Dr. Ofek Riemer is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the coordinator of the Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS). He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2022 for his work on public intelligence disclosure in international relations, which received the Israel Political Science Association Award for Best Dissertation that year. Dr. Riemer’s research centers on the international politics of secrecy and the nexus between intelligence, foreign policy, and society. His research was published in Contemporary Security Policy, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Strategic Assessment, and War on the Rocks.

Dr. Shani Friedman is a lawyer and has a PhD from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her fields of expertise are international relations, and international law, specifically the law of the sea and international institutions. She was a postdoctoral researcher in international law at UBO, AMURE lab, Brest, France, as part of the DEEPREST project. Within the project, she researches different questions relating to the legal regime and governance framework of deep-sea mining such as liability, sharing of benefits and interaction with other frameworks within the law of the sea, such as the BBNJ agreement. Her current research project focuses on questions concerning the global freedom of navigation, collective security and maritime security, and the governance of common interests.

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Gil Shaham-Maymon's research focuses on cities, their shifting responsibilities in relation to the state, local communities' dynamics within urban environments, and political theory of the city. Her current study examines cities with ethno-national divisions, placing particular emphasis on local peacebuilding initiatives as a means to reconstruct urban citizenship and safeguard residents' rights at the local level.

 

Michael Rabi Syrkin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and the Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his PhD at the Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His ethnographic and historical research has focused on the intersection of health governance, international politics, and emergency. Michael's work has been published in journals that specialize in areas such as international relations, health sociology, public policy, Science and Technology Studies, and history. In his current research project on "Post-Emergency Politics and the (Re)Shaping of Global Health Governance", he is investigating politics in the aftermath of emergencies and their consequences.

 

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.