Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel's Peacemaking

Contributors

273 Contributors Yael S. Aronoff holds the Serling chair in Israel studies at Michigan State University, where she is an associate professor of international relations at James Madison College and has a dual appointment with the Jewish Studies Program. She received her PhD in political science from Columbia University and her BA from Princeton University. She worked in the Pentagon as a regional assistant for humanitarian affairs and as a Jacob K. Javits fellow on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dr. Aronoff’s book, When Israeli Hard-Liners Opt for Peace: the Political Psychology of Prime Ministers, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in spring 2014. It compares and contrasts six Israeli prime ministers and helps explain why some underwent dramatic shifts in regard to policies toward the Palestinians while others did not. Dr. Aronoff’s recent publications include “From Warfare to Withdrawal: The Legacy of Ariel Sharon,” Israel Studies (Summer 2010); and “From Hawks to Peacemakers: A Comparison of Two Israeli Prime Ministers,” Israel Studies Forum (Summer 2009). She is also the book review editor for the Israel Studies Review. Alan Dowty is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Notre Dame. In 2003–6 he held the Kahanoff chair in Israeli Studies at the University of Calgary, and in 2005–7 he was president of the Association for Israel Studies. Professor Dowty is a graduate of Shimer College and the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in 1963. In 1963–75 he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, during which time he served as executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and chairman of the Department of International Relations. Among his books are The Limits of American 274 ▲ Contributors Isolation, New York University Press (1971); Middle East Crisis, University of California Press (1984), which won the Quincy Wright Award of the International Studies Association; Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement, Yale University Press (1987); and The Jewish State: A Century Later, University of California Press (1998, 2001). An edited volume, Critical Problems in Israeli Society, was published by Praeger in 2004. His latest book, Israel/Palestine (2005, 2008, 2012), is published by Polity Press. He has published over 140 scholarly and popular articles and reviews, and has delivered over 500 public lectures in 20 countries. Ehud Eiran is a lecturer (US assistant professor) at the Division of International Relations, School of Political Science, Haifa University, Israel; and a faculty affiliate of the Middle-East Negotiation Initiative at the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School. Eiran was a research fellow and an associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard ’s Kennedy School (2005–11), a senior visiting fellow in the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (2003–6), and a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at MIT (2010–11). Prior to his academic career, Eiran served as an assistant to the Israeli prime minister’s foreign policy advisor. His best-selling book, The Essence of Longing, was published in Israel in 2007. Miriam Fendius Elman is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Professor Elman received her PhD in political science from Columbia University and has been a faculty member at the Maxwell School since fall 2008. From 1996 to 2008 she was a faculty member of Arizona State University. She is the editor and co-editor of three books, Paths to Peace: Is Democracy the Answer?, MIT Press (1997); Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations, MIT Press (2001); and Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field, MIT Press (2003); and has authored over thirty journal articles, book chapters, and government reports. At the Maxwell School, Elman has directed the project on Democracy in the Middle East (DIME) funded by the Moynihan Institute Contributors ▲ 275 of Global Affairs and currently serves as faculty research co-director of the International and Intra-State Conflict and Collaboration project at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration . Her work has been funded by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and by the US Department of Education. Elman’s current research projects include a monograph on the relationship between war, peace, and democratic political development and a co-edited book (with anthropologist Madelaine Adelman), Jerusalem : Conflict and Cooperation in...