Curriculum Vitae
URIEL ABULOF
Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor)
School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel-Aviv University
LISD/Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
uriel@tau.ac.il; uabulof@princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~uabulof/
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: December 23, 1973
Family Status: Married + 2
Languages: Hebrew (mother tongue), English, literary Arabic
EDUCATION
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD, International Relations, 2007
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MA, Contemporary Middle East Studies, 2003
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
BA, International Relations and Islam & Middle-East Studies, 1994
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Research & Teaching
Senior Lecturer (US rank Associate Professor), School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel-Aviv University, 2015-present
Senior Associate, LISD/Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2013-present
Research Fellow, Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel-Aviv University, 2009-2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer: The Department of Near Eastern Studies & The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2008-2009
Schusterman & AICE (The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise) Visiting Israeli Professor, 2007-2009; 2013-2014
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University & The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2007-2008
Postdoctoral Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations & Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006-2007
Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (best-teacher listings), 2001-2004
University & Professional Service
Director of the PhD program, School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel-Aviv University, 2016-present
Award Committee Member, The Dan David Prize, 2019
Award Committee Member, Presidency of the State of Israel, 2016-present
Faculty of Social Sciences Elected Representative, University Senate, Tel-Aviv University, 2016/7
International Relations Division Chair for Association for Israel Studies Conference 2017, The Association for Israel Studies, 2016-present
Academic Committee Member, The Annual Ben Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies, The Association for Israel Studies, 2016-present
Executive Committee Member, Israeli Association of International Studies, 2016-present
Academic Committee Member, The Center for Iranian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, 2016-present
Executive Board Member, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University, 2015-present
Executive Board Member, Jabotinsky Institute in Israel, Tel-Aviv University, 2015-present
RESEARCH
Books
Abulof, Uriel (work in progress). Death, Freedom and the Pursuit of Meaning: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism.
Abulof, Uriel (work in progress). Existential Conflict and Coexistence in Israel-Palestine: Incompossible Peoples? (under contract, Routledge).
Abulof, Uriel (work in progress). Abyss & Horizon: Political Existentialism and Humanity’s Midlife Crisis (under contract, Cambridge University Press).
Abulof, Uriel and Markus Kornprobst (eds.) (2017). Communication, Legitimation and Morality in Modern Politics: Studying Public Justification. New York: Routledge.
Abulof, Uriel and Karl Cordell (eds.) (2016). Self-Determination in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge.
Abulof, Uriel (2016). Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism [Hebrew]. Haifa and Tel-Aviv: Haifa University Press and Yedioth Books.
The winner of the Bahat Prize for the best Hebrew nonfiction manuscript.
Abulof, Uriel (2015). The Mortality and Morality of Nations: French Canadians, Israeli Jews and Afrikaners. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
Abulof, Uriel (2018). Nationalism as Legitimation: The Appeal of Ethnicity and the Plea for Popular Sovereignty. Nations and Nationalism 24(3): 528-534.
Abulof, Uriel (2017). Why We Need Maslow in the 21st Century. Society 54(6): 508-509.
Abulof, Uriel (2017). Be Yourself! How am I not Myself? Between Essentialist and Existentialist Authenticity. Society 54(6): 530-532
Abulof, Uriel (2017). “Can’t Buy Me Legitimacy”: The Elusive and Illusive Stability of Mideast Rentier Regimes. Journal of International Relations and Development 20(1): 55-79.
Abulof, Uriel and Markus Kornprobst (2017). The Politics of Public Justification. Contemporary Politics 23(1): 1-18.
Abulof, Uriel (2017). Conscientious Politics and Israel’s Moral Dilemmas. Contemporary Politics 23(1): 34-52.
Abulof, Uriel and Markus Kornprobst (2017). Unpacking Public Justification. Contemporary Politics 23(1): 126-140.
Ogen Goldman and Abulof, Uriel (2017). Democracy for the Rescue - of Dictators? The Role of Regime Type in Civil War Interventions. Contemporary Security Policy 37(3): 341-368. [shortlisted for the 2017 Bernard Brodie Prize.]
Uriel Abulof and Ogen S. Goldman (2016). Intrastate Violence in the Middle East: On Democracy, Democratization and Nationalism [Hebrew]. Politics: The Israeli Journal of Political Science and International Relations 26: 137-165.
Abulof, Uriel (2016). Mirage or Vision: Binationalism in Theory and Practice. Ethnopolitics 15(4): 422-437.
Abulof, Uriel (2016). We the Peoples? The Strange Demise of Self-Determination. European Journal of International Relations 22 (3): 536-565.
Abulof, Uriel (2016). Public Political Thought: Bridging the Sociological-Philosophical Divide in the Study of Legitimacy. British Journal of Sociology 67 (2): 371-391.
Abulof, Uriel (2016). Behemoth vs. Leviathan: RIP R2P? E-International Relations.
Abulof, Uriel (2015). “The People Want(s) to Bring Down the Regime”: Rethinking Nationalism and Legitimacy in the Arab World. Nations and Nationalism 21(4): 658–680.
Abulof, Uriel and Ogen Goldman (2015). The Domestic Democratic Peace in the Middle East. International Journal of Conflict and Violence 9(1): 72-89.
Abulof, Uriel (2015). The Confused Compass: From Self-Determination to State-Determination. Ethnopolitics 14(5): 488-497.
Abulof, Uriel and Wolfgang Danspeckgruber (2015). In Search of a Common Ground Between Self-determination and Grand Strategy. Ethnopolitics 14(5): 555-565.
Abulof, Uriel (2015). The Malpractice of Rationality in International Relations. Rationality and Society 27(3): 358–384.
Abulof, Uriel (2015). Normative Concepts Analysis: Unpacking the Language of Legitimation. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 18 (1):73-89.
Abulof, Uriel (2014). Deep Securitization and Israel's “Demographic Demon”. International Political Sociology 8 (4):396-415.
Abulof, Uriel (2014). The Role of Religion in National Legitimation: Judaism and Zionism’s Elusive Quest for Legitimacy. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53 (3): 515-533.
Abulof, Uriel (2014). Revisiting Iran’s nuclear Rationale. International Politics. 51 (3): 404-415.
Abulof, Uriel (2014). National Ethics in Ethnic Conflict: The Zionist “Iron Wall” and the “Arab Question”. Ethnic and Racial Studies 37 (14):2653-69.
Abulof, Uriel (2013). Nuclear Diversion Theory and Legitimacy Crisis: The Case of Iran. Politics & Policy 41 (5): 690-722.
Abulof, Uriel (2009). Small Peoples: The Existential Uncertainty of Ethnonational Communities. International Studies Quarterly 53 (1):227-248.
Abulof, Uriel (2008). Back to the Future: A Comparative Ethical Look at Israeli Arab Future Vision Documents. Israel Studies Review 23 (2):29-54.
Abulof, Uriel (2006). Israeli-Jewish Existential Uncertainty [Hebrew]. Tchelet 27:74-98.
Editing / Special Issues
Abulof, Uriel (ed.) (2017). Revisiting Maslow: Human Needs in the 21st Century, Society 54(6).
Abulof, Uriel and Markus Kornprobst (eds.) (2017). The Politics of Public Justification, Contemporary Politics 23(1).
Abulof, Uriel and Karl Cordell (eds.) (2015). Self-Determination: A Double-edged Principle, Ethnopolitics 14(5)
Book Chapters
Abulof, Uriel (forthcoming). The Zionist Absurd. In Search for Meaning in The Israeli Scene, edited by Ofra Mayseless Pninit Russo-Netzer. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Abulof, Uriel (2019). Reading Maslow in the Land of (Magical) Realism: The Hierarchy of Human Needs in Israel’s Politics. In The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, edited by Robert Schuett and Miles Hollingworth. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Abulof, Uriel (2019) Free or Fearful? Zionism’s Responses to Jewish Insecurity. In Routledge Handbook on Israeli Security, edited by Stuart Cohen and Aaron S. Klieman, pp. 13-24. New York, NY: Routledge.
Abulof, Uriel (2019). Humanity’s Gadflies: The Existential Vocation of Small Nations. In Small Nations, edited by Joseph Yvon Thériault. Montreal: Université du Québec à Montréal [English and French]
Abulof, Uriel (2017). Mirage or Vision: Binationalism in Theory and Practice. In The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Reflections on the Politics of Stalemate, edited by Karl Cordell, Brendan O'Leary, and Stefan Wolff. New York: Routledge.
Abulof, Uriel (2016) Free to Fight? Testing the Democratic Civil Peace in the Middle East. In Democratic Peace across the Middle East: Islam and Political Modernisation, edited by Yakub Halabi, pp. 17-45. New York: I.B.Tauris.
Abulof, Uriel (2014). Introduction [Hebrew], with Ephraim Lavie. In Nationalism and Ethics: The Zionist Discourse and the “Arab Problem,” edited by Ephraim Lavie, pp. 9-21. Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University.
Abulof, Uriel (2014). Zionist Political Ethics in the Last Generation [Hebrew]. In Nationalism and Ethics: The Zionist Discourse and the “Arab Problem,” edited by Ephraim Lavie, pp. 337-356. Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University.
Abulof, Uriel (2013). Binationalism Beyond Israel. In Nationalism and Binationalism: The Perils of Perfect Structures, edited by Yedidia Z. Stern, Alexander Yakobson and Anita Shapira, pp. 1-13. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press.
Abulof, Uriel (2010). Political Land and Space. In Nobody’s property: art, land, space, 2000-2010, edited by K. Baum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum.
Abulof, Uriel (2009). Zionism. In Encyclopedia of Nationalism and Ethnicity (composite), edited by J. H. Moore, pp. 36-40. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale.
Abulof, Uriel (2008). French, Canadiens, French-Canadians and Québécois: The Survival-Identity Complex. In Coping with Crisis: Conflict Management and Resolution, edited by S. Barzilai, A. Churchman and A. Zysblatt, pp.213-235. Jerusalem: Magness Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Review Articles
Abulof, Uriel (2019) Response to Arjun Chowdhury’s Review of the Mortality and Morality of Nations. Perspectives on Politics 17 (1):185-186.
Abulof, Uriel (2019). Review of “The Myth of International Order: Why Weak States Persist and Alternatives to the State Fade Away” (2018) by Arjun Chowdhury, New York: Oxford University Press. Perspectives on Politics 17(1): 186-188.
Abulof, Uriel (2017). Review of “The Politics of Majority Nationalism: Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises published” (2015) by Neophytos Loizides, Stanford: Stanford University Press. Perspectives on Politics 15 (4): 1196-1198.
Abulof, Uriel (2017). Review of “Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War” (2016) by Bill Kissane, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Review of Politics 79 (4):740-743.
Abulof, Uriel (2016). Review of “Zionism and its discontents: a century of radical dissent in Israel/Palestine” (2014), by Ran Greenstein, London: Pluto Press. Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (13): 2414-2416.
Abulof, Uriel (2015). Review of “Divine Service? Judaism and Israel's Armed Forces” (2013) by Stuart A. Cohen, New York: Ashgate. Journal of Israeli History 34 (1): 113-116.
Abulof, Uriel (2010). “Land, Blood and Ballots: The Curious Case of Resident Alien Franchise” (Review of “Old Nations, New Voters: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Democracy in the Era of Global Migration” by David C. Earnest) International Studies Review 12 (2):320-322.
Abulof, Uriel (2009). “The Last Clash” (Review of Clash of Identities by Baruch Kimmerling). Israel Studies Review 24 (2):114-116.
Treatises & Op-Eds
“Party Time in the Promised Land: How fear helps illiberal leaders deliver liberalism’s promise of happiness,” The Guardian, April 2019
“How and Why Tribes Are Taking Over,” Forward, 30 December 2016
“The Liberal Uncanny” The Huffington Post, 11 January 2016
“The Meaning of Life and Death (in Politics)” The Huffington Post, 2 December 2015
“Living on the Edge” The Huffington Post, 10 September 2015 & fifteeneightyfour (the blog of Cambridge University Press), 11 September 2015.
“Israel 2015: The Politics of Fear and Bad Faith” The Huffington Post, 26 March 2015.
“Self-Determination, Redux?” The Huffington Post, 20 March 2014.
“The Greengrocer That Broke the Camel's Back,” The Huffington Post, 3 January 2012.
“What Is the Arab Third Estate?” The Huffington Post, 10 March 2011.
“Ever After… The Pursuit of Wealth and Happiness,” (Treatise) Eretz Acheret, 13 February 2011.
“On the Jewish State As an Alien State,” (Treatise) Eretz Acheret, 4 November 2010.
“Poll the People,” YnetNews, 9 May 2010.
“Make History, Don't Record It,” The Huffington Post, 5 May 2010.
“Obama Must Follow Balfour on Palestinian State,” RealClearWorld, 22 September 2009.
“A Shadow on the Wall,” Common Ground News Service, 13 August 2009.
“Too Little, Too Late,” Ynet News, 1 July 2009.
“Obama’s Pudding,” LISD Commentary / Princeton University, July 2009.
“Arab-Israeli Conflict About Identities, Not Borders,” RealClearWorld, 22 May 2009
Op-Ed Column in Haartez Israeli Daily Newspaper (2009-present).
Op-Ed Column in Maariv Israeli Daily Newspaper (2003-2008).
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
Best Online Course in the World, 2018 [for PrincetonX HOPE, by Class Central; ranks #1 in philosophy and political science, #2 in all social sciences and the humanities (among over 2500 course worldwide)], 2018/9
Best Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2017/18
Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Research Grant, 2018-2020
APSA Member of the Month, American Political Science Association, October 2017
Best Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2015/16
The Association for Israel Studies and the Israel Institute Young Scholar Award, 2016
Truman Institute Award for the Best Joint Research Grant (“The Forerunners of Frontiers”), 2016
The Public Political Thought of the Arab Spring (Fritz Thyssen Foundation Grant), 2014-2017
Bahat Prize for the best Hebrew nonfiction manuscript, 2012
Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace Grant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012-2014
The French Research Center in Jerusalem, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2011-2013
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Peace Grant, 2011-2012
Rosenbloom Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-2008
David Nathan Meyerson Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-2008
Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2007
Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2007
The Einstein Center Fellowship, 2006
ORGANIZED PANELS AND CONFERENCES
Self-Determination, Nationalism, and Secessionism: Should Europe Panic? A roundtable organized for the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City (5 May 2018)
Maslow Revisited: A Workshop, WWS, Sociology and UCHV, Princeton University (April 2017)
Love trumps Fear? Existential Investigation on Human Needs, Creeds, and Greed, Princeton University (13 October 2016)
Self-Determination: The Evolvement of a Double-Edged Concept, A roundtable organized for the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City (25 April 2015)
The Perils and Promises of Self-Determination, Princeton University (27-29 April 2014)
Public Justification in World Politics, Princeton University (22-23 March 2014)
Data Big and Small: Computer Science, the Humanities and Social Science, Tufts University and Princeton University (2-7 February 2014)
Nationalism and Morality: The Zionist Discourse and the “Arab Question”, Tel Aviv University (23-24 March 2011)
Self‐Determination: A Perilous Principle, A panel organized for the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans (20 February 2010)
Politics and Religion, LISD/Princeton University, June 2009-present (annual international conference held in Vienna, Lisbon and Jerusalem)
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
The 8th Eurasian Peace Science Conference, Jerusalem (2019, January)
The challenges of self-determination in conflict prevention and resolution, Princeton (2018, December)
Aspen Institute conference on Wilsonian Idealism, 1918-2018, Prague (2018, June)
Israel Institute Conference, Jerusalem (2018, May-June)
ASN 23rd Annual World Convention, New York (2018, May)
Self-Determination Roundtable, Princeton (2018, January)
Happiness and Political Meaning, Bar Talk, Tel Aviv (2017, December)
Russian Revolution / Zionist Revolution, Visions of a New Society, Jerusalem (2017, December)
Book talk: Political Existentialism and Humanity’s Midlife Crisis, Princeton University (2017, October)
Book talk: Political Existentialism and Humanity’s Midlife Crisis, Cornell University (2017, September)
APSA 113th Annual Conference, San Francisco (2017, September)
Olympia Summer Academy, Greece (July 2017)
Declaring the State: Constitution and Citizenship, workshop, Sciences Po Paris (June 2017)
The Future of Nations, Sciences Po Paris (May 2017)
Israel Studies as a Global Discipline, University of Oxford (May 2017)
ASEN 27th Annual Conference, London (2017, April)
ISA 58th Annual Convention, Baltimore (2017, February)
Book Launch (Living on the Edge), Tel Aviv University (2016, November)
Five years to the Social Justice Protests, Tel Aviv University (2016, November)
Book Launch (The Mortality and Morality of Nations), WWS, Princeton University (2016, October)
The 2016 Serling Modern Israel Lecture, MSU Jewish Studies Program (2016, September)
Transforming Intractable Conflicts: Restructuring and Reframing, Syracuse University (2016, September)
APSA 112th Annual Conference, Philadelphia (2016, September)
Israel Institute’s second Leadership Summit, Jerusalem (2016, June)
The 33th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Jerusalem (2016, June)
The 100‐Year Anniversary of Sykes‐Picot Agreement, Haifa (2016, May)
ASEN 26th Annual Conference, London (2016, April)
Colloquium on National Self-Determination, Liechtenstein (2016, March)
The Strategic Existential Discourse in Israel, Tel-Aviv (2015, December)
Islam and the Transformation of Europe, Tel-Aviv (2015, December)
Colloquium on Emerging European Security Challenges, Liechtenstein (2015, December)
The “Iron Wall” Then and Now, Tel-Aviv (2015, November)
International Symposium on “Small Nations,” Lac Brome (2015, September)
Small Nations roundtable (UQAM), Montreal, (2015, September)
International Workshop on Film, Democracy, and Liberal Education, Princeton (2015, May)
ASN 20th Annual World Convention, New York (2015, April)
The 73rd Annual Conference of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (2015, April)
The Responsibility to Protect at Ten, Brandeis University (2015, March)
ISA 56th Annual Convention, New Orleans (2015, February)
Grand Strategy and Self-determination, Princeton (2014, November)
International Workshop on Conscience, Dublin (2014, October)
The Hamas-Israel Conflict in Context: What’s Next for Israel, the Palestinians and the Region? Los Angeles (2014, October)
The State of Global Affairs, LCM Seminar, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein (2014, August)
ASN 19th Annual World Convention, New York (2014, April)
ASEN 24th Annual Conference, London (2014, April)
ISA 55th Annual Convention, Toronto (2014, March)
Seminar at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University (2014, April)
The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference, Boston (2013, November)
APSA 109th Annual Conference, Chicago (2013, August)
Annual Conference of the International Society of Political Psychology, Hertzliya (2013, July)
PSS-ISA Joint International Conference, Budapest (2013, June)
The 23rd Annual Conference of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel, Tel-Aviv University (2013, June)
The 14th Jerusalem Conference in Canadian Studies, Jerusalem (2013, May)
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford (2013, May)
ASEN 23rd Annual Conference, London (2013, April)
The Indian Council of World Affairs and the IRNRD conference on the Arab Spring and post-secularism, New Delhi (2012, December)
BISA and ISA Joint International Conference, Edinburgh (2012, June)
ISA 53rd Annual Convention, San Diego (2012, April)
The Pacification of Europe: Lessons for the Middle East, Haifa (2011, May)
Nationalism and the Moral Zionist Discourse, Tel-Aviv (2011, March)
ISA 51th Annual Convention, Montreal (2011, March)
LISD’s 10th Anniversary Colloquium, Princeton NJ (2010, November)
APSA 106th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (2010, September)
ISA 50th Annual Convention, New Orleans (2010, February)
ASN 14th Annual World Convention, New York (2009, April)
ASEN 19th Annual Conference, London (2009, April)
ISA 50th Annual Convention, New York City (2009, February)
The 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, New York City (2008, May)
ISA 49th Annual Convention, San Francisco (2008, March)
The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Ra'anana/Israel (2007, June)
The 11th Biennial Jerusalem Conference in Canadian Studies (2006, July)
The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Banff/Canada (2006, May)
The 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC (2005, December)
TEACHING
Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism (EdX online course), Princeton University & Tel-Aviv University (2018-)
Introduction to International Relations and Strategy / Tel-Aviv University (2009-2013, 2015-)
The International System /Tel-Aviv University (2010-2013, 2015-)
Methodology and Methods in Social and Political Sciences: The Hebrew University (2001-2004); Tel-Aviv University (2011, 2012, 2016-)
Ethnonational Communities and Conflicts / Princeton University (2008-2009); Tel-Aviv University (2009-2013, 2015-)
Identity Politics and Nationalism: MENA and beyond / LISD, Princeton University (Spring 2015)
The Politics of Fear, Freedom and Bad Faith: Israel and beyond / Tel-Aviv University (2016-)
The Writing on the Wall: The Road to the Arab Spring / Tel-Aviv University (2011-2013, 2016-)
Death, Freedom and the Pursuit of Meaning: Introduction to Existential Politics / LISD, Princeton University (2014/2015); Tel-Aviv University (2015-)
DiametricaLand: The Enigma of Modern Israel / LISD, Princeton University (Fall, 2014/2015)
Political Theories and Middle East Practice / Princeton University (2008-2009); Tel-Aviv University (2009-2012)
Religion, Revolution and International Relations / Princeton University (2013-2016)