Eldad Ben Aharon
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Postdoctoral Researcher in International Security
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Dr. Eldad Ben Aharon is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Researcher in International Security at the School of Law and Government, at DCU. He leads the research project titled: "2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Israel's Foreign Policy: Securitization, Geopolitics, and Arms Trading."
He earned his Ph.D. in History from Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2019, an M.A. with a focus on Holocaust and Genocide studies from the University of Amsterdam in 2014, and a B.A. in International Relations from The Open University in Jerusalem in 2011.
Dr. Ben Aharon specializes in international relations and critical security studies, with a primary focus on the Middle East. His research interests revolve around the international history of the Middle East during the Cold War, primarily examined through archival research and interviews with prominent diplomats and intelligence elites.
His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the European Journal of International Security, Intelligence and National Security, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Oral History Review, and Cold War History among others.
Over the past three years, Dr. Ben Aharon has actively engaged in a policy-oriented environment, bridging the gap between cutting-edge academic research to policy advice.
Book Chapter
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Eldad Ben Aharon (2023) 'Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy'. Intelligence and National Security, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Eldad Ben Aharon (2022) 'Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies'. Diplomacy & Statecraft, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Eldad Ben Aharon (2022) 'Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone'. Diplomacy & Statecraft, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Eldad Ben Aharon (2021) 'The “War on Terror” and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War: Israeli–Turkish Relations and the 1980 Military Coup'. STUDIES IN CONFLICT & TERRORISM, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | (2020) 'Doing Oral History with the Israeli Elite and the Question of International Relations Research'. Oral History Review, . [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) 'Recognition of the Armenian Genocide After its Centenary: A Comparative Analysis of Changing Parliamentary Positions'. Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, . [Link] | |
| 2018 | (2018) 'Superpower by Invitation: Late Cold War Diplomacy and Leveraging Armenian Terrorism as a Means to Rapprochement in Israeli-Turkish Relations (1980–1987)'. Cold War History, . [Link] | |
| 2017 | Eldad Ben-Aharon (2017) 'Armenian feminism and national identity'. Patterns of Prejudice, . [DOI] | |
| 2017 | (2017) 'Between Ankara and Jerusalem: the Armenian Genocide as a Zero-Sum Game in Israel’s Foreign Policy (1980s-2010s)'. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, . [Link] | |
| 2016 | Eldad Ben-Aharon (2016) 'Turkey and the Armenian ghost: on the trail of the genocide'. Holocaust Studies, . [DOI] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'A Unique Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide'. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, . [Link] |
Magazine Article
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | (2022) The 'G-word': Legislators' Fundamental Role to Defend Liberal Democracy, Newsweek Opinion. MGZN [Link] | |
| 2021 | (2021) Co-authored with Hanna Pfeifer, The Capitol Rioters and their Supporters Beyond 'Us vs. Them': A View from outside the US. MGZN [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Armenian genocide: US recognition of Turkey’s killing of 1.5 million was tangled up in decades of geopolitics. MGZN [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Armenian Genocide: Looking Back at the 40 Years It Took for Congress to Acknowledge It. MGZN [Link] |
Newspaper
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | (2022) לא נכון למנות רמטכל לפני הבחירות, לפיד זקוק למעטפת יציבה. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2022 | (2022) Co authoed with Pnina Shuker, Lapid Must Proceed with Caution with Hezbollah. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2021 | (2021) Why Won't Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide? It's Not Just About Turkey. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2021 | (2021) Carter's Holocaust Commission Should Inspire Biden on Armenian Genocide Newsweek Opinion. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2021 | (2021) Erdogan’s Take on the Holocaust Is Cynical, Selective and Self-Serving. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Erdogan’s Comparison of Islamophobia, Antisemitism Doesn't Work. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Disunited by Genocide: How Armenia’s Relations with Israel Have Come to a Dead End. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Long-Distance Israeli Nationalism and ‘Crime Minister’ Netanyahu. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Co-authored with Eitay Mack Israeli Archives Censorship Regulations and Oral History. NEWSA [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Counter-Terrorism’ in Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Old Wine in a New Bottle?. NEWSA [Link] |
Newsletter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | (2021) Don’t Base Israeli-German Ties Only on the Holocaust. NEWSL [Link] |
Other Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | (2022) Review of Vanishing West in the Middle East: The Recent History of U.S.-Europe Cooperation in the Region by Charles Thépaut, Strategic Assessment, March 2022. [Link] | |
| 2021 | (2021) Public Lecture at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies:Supporting Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide, Israel Studies Seminar, Podcast, 2 November 2021. [Link] | |
| 2021 | (2021) What's New? Spring Lecture Series 2021. Public Lecture: Israel's Foreign Policy in Nagorno Karabakh: History, Geopolitics, and Arms Trading. [Link] | |
| 2018 | (2018) Review of Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009, by Fatma Müge Göçek, Journal of Social History 51, no. 3 (2018): 656–659. [Link] | |
| 2017 | (2017) Review of Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey by Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, Patterns of Prejudice 51, no. 2 (2017): 211-213. [Link] | |
| 2016 | (2016) Review of Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: on the Trail of the Genocide by Laure Marchand & Guillaume Perrier, Holocaust Studies 22 no. 4, (2016): 472-475. [Link] | |
| 2016 | (2016) Review of They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny. Princeton University Press 2015. In: H-Soz-Kult. [Link] |
Published Report
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Eldad Ben Aharon (2023) Between Geopolitics and Identity Struggle: Why Israel Took Sides with Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, PRIF Report 1/2023, Frankfurt/M. . [Link] | |
| 2022 | (2022) פגישת הרצוג-ארדואן: מערכה חשובה בתיאטרון הרגשות בין ישראל לטורקיה. . [Link] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Policy Report: How Do We Remember the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust? A Global View of an Integrated Memory of Perpetrators, Victims and Third–Party Countries. . [Link] | |
| 2019 | (2019) Policy Report: Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide. . [Link] |
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