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Eldad Ben Aharon

Dr. Eldad Ben Aharon 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 primary areas of interest include security and memory, securitization theory, foreign policy analysis, public and digital diplomacy, and elite interviews.

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.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2023	(2023) 'Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Paralysis: The Armenian Genocide Bill during the Netanyahu Administration (2009-2021), in: B. Der Matossian (ed.), Denial of Genocides in the 21st Century, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (in press, May 2023)' In: Denial of Genocides in the 21st Century.
	2020	(2020) 'Restorative Justice and the Diplomacy of Closure: The Israeli Policy on the Armenian Genocide and the Geopolitics of Memory (1980s-2010s) in Just Memories. Remembrance and Restoration in the Aftermath of Political Violence” eds,. C. d. Gamboa & B. van Roermund, (Cambridge UK: Intersentia Press, 2020), 313-336' In:

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) 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]

	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]