Dr Eldad Ben Aharon
Associate FellowResearch Department:
Glocal Junctions
Contact
Twitter: @EldadBenAharonE-Mail: benaharon@prif.org
CV
| since 2023 | Irish Research Council (IRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Security at Dublin City University |
| 2020–2022 | Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Policing & Security (ICPS) at the University of South Wales |
| 2019–2021 | Minerva Fellow and Associate Researcher at PRIF |
| 2019–2021 | Lecturer at Leiden University, Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), department of Middle Eastern Studies |
| 2018–2019 | Visiting Scholar at Leiden University, Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) |
| 2017–2019 | Global Excellence Scholarship for Armenian Studies, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |
| 2015–2019 | D. Phil., Royal Holloway, University of London, Holocaust Research Institute and the Department of History |
| 2012–2014 | Master of Arts in Modern History, University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies |
| 2007–2011 | BA in Humanities and Social Science with specialization in International Relations, Open University of Israel |
Expertise
Dr Eldad Ben Aharon is working on the following issues:
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Israel's foreign policy and national security
- Israel-Turkey relations (all periods)
- Israel-Iran relations (all periods)
- Israel-German relations (all periods)
- The War on Terror during the Cold War
- Critical security studies/Securitization theory
- Elite Interviews and qualitative research
- Jewish and Armenian transnationalism
- Holocaust memory in the global age
Publications
- Political audience and non-linear securitization: Revisiting Israel–Iran relations and the making of the 1979 Islamic Revolution | 2023
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Political audience and non-linear securitization: Revisiting Israel–Iran relations and the making of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in: European Journal of International Security, 1–25, DOI: 10.1017/eis.2023.26.
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- Outlook on German-Israeli Relations | 2023
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Outlook on German-Israeli Relations. German Staatsraison and Netanyahu‘s Coalition Contentious ‚Judicial Reform‘, PRIF Spotlight 6/2023, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifspot0623.
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- Why Israel Backs Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: It’s Not About Armenia | 2023
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Why Israel Backs Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: It’s Not About Armenia, PRIF BLOG, 29.3.2023.
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- Why Israel Backs Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: It’s Not About Armenia | 2023
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Why Israel Backs Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: It’s Not About Armenia, PRIF Blog, 29.3.2023.
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- Between Geopolitics and Identity Struggle: Why Israel Took Sides with Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict | 2023
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Between Geopolitics and Identity Struggle: Why Israel Took Sides with Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, PRIF Report 1/2023, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifrep2301.
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- Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy | 2022
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2022): Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy, in: Intelligence and National Security, DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2022.2095600.
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- The “War on Terror” and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War: Israeli–Turkish Relations and the 1980 Military Coup | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): The “War on Terror” and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War: Israeli–Turkish Relations and the 1980 Military Coup, in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1997134.
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- The Capitol Rioters and their Supporters Beyond “Us vs. Them”: A View from outside the US | 2021
Pfeifer, Hanna / Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): The Capitol Rioters and their Supporters Beyond “Us vs. Them”: A View from outside the US, PRIF Blog, 7.5.2021.
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- Review, Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone, Uri Bialer, Diplomacy & Statecraft | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Review, Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone, Uri Bialer, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 1.5.2021.
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- Review, Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies, Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky, Diplomacy & Statecraft | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Review, Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies, Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 1.5.2021.
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- Why Won't Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide? It's Not Just About Turkey | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Why Won't Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide? It's Not Just About Turkey, Haaretz, 21.4.2021.
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- Carter's Holocaust Commission Should Inspire Biden on Armenian Genocide | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Carter's Holocaust Commission Should Inspire Biden on Armenian Genocide, Newsweek, 20.4.2021.
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- Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Failure: The Armenian Genocide Bill in Israel’s Political Arena | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Failure: The Armenian Genocide Bill in Israel’s Political Arena, in: B. Der Matossian (ed.), Denial of Genocides in the 21st Century, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (im Erscheinen).
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- Armenian Genocide: US Recognition of Turkey’s Killing of 1.5 Million Was Tangled up In Decades of Geopolitics | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Armenian Genocide: US Recognition of Turkey’s Killing of 1.5 Million Was Tangled up In Decades of Geopolitics, The Conversation, 6.3.2021.
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- Erdogan’s Take on the Holocaust Is Cynical, Selective and Self-Serving | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Erdogan’s Take on the Holocaust Is Cynical, Selective and Self-Serving, Haaretz, 28.1.2021.
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- At the Age of the Pandemic: The Global Memory of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide at a Crossroads | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): At the Age of the Pandemic: The Global Memory of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide at a Crossroads, PRIF Blog, 12.1.2021.
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- ארדואן מגייס את השואה כדי "להקפיץ" את האירופאים ונכשל | 2021
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): ארדואן מגייס את השואה כדי "להקפיץ" את האירופאים ונכשל, זמן תל אביב, 2.1.2021.
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- Erdogan’s Comparison of Islamophobia, Antisemitism Doesn't Work | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Erdogan’s Comparison of Islamophobia, Antisemitism Doesn't Work, Jerusalem Post, 17.12.2020.
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- How Do We Remember the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust? | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): How Do We Remember the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust? A Global View of an Integrated Memory of Perpetrators, Victims and Third–Party Countries, PRIF Report 6/2020, Frankfurt/M.
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- Disunited by Genocide: How Armenia’s Relations with Israel Have Come to a Dead End | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Disunited by Genocide: How Armenia’s Relations with Israel Have Come to a Dead End, Haaretz, 29.10.2020.
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- 'מדיניות החוץ של טורקיה ושימוש מופרז במושג 'לוחמה בטרור | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): 'מדיניות החוץ של טורקיה ושימוש מופרז במושג 'לוחמה בטרור, זמן ישראל, 15.10.2020.
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- ‘Counter-Terrorism’ in Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Old Wine in a New Bottle? | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): ‘Counter-Terrorism’ in Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Old Wine in a New Bottle?, Jerusalem Post, 3.10.2020.
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- Restorative Justice and the Diplomacy of Closure | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Restorative Justice and the Diplomacy of Closure. The Israeli Policy on the Armenian Genocide and the Geopolitics of Memory (1980s-2010s), in: C. d. Gamboa/B. van Roermund (eds), Just Memories. Remembrance and Restoration in the Aftermath of Political Violence, Cambridge UK: Intersentia Press, 313-336, https://intersentia.com/en/just-memories.html.
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- Long-Distance Israeli Nationalism and ‘Crime Minister’ Netanyahu | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Long-Distance Israeli Nationalism and ‘Crime Minister’ Netanyahu, Jerusalem Post, 10.9.2020.
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- ?הפזורה‘ הישראלית: טרנד חולף או כאן כדי להשאר' | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): ?הפזורה‘ הישראלית: טרנד חולף או כאן כדי להשאר', זמן תל אביב, 28.8.2020.
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- Israeli Archives Censorship Regulations and Oral History | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Israeli Archives Censorship Regulations and Oral History, Jerusalem Post, 22.8.2020.
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- Armenian Genocide: Looking Back at the 40 Years It Took for Congress to Acknowledge It | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Armenian Genocide: Looking Back at the 40 Years It Took for Congress to Acknowledge It, The National Interest, 9.3.2020.
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- Recognition of the Armenian Genocide after its Centenary: A Comparative Analysis of Changing Parliamentary Positions | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Recognition of the Armenian Genocide after its Centenary: A Comparative Analysis of Changing Parliamentary Positions, in: Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/23739770.2019.1737911.
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- Author Interview: Eldad Ben Aharon on the Use of Oral History in the Study of International Relations | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Author Interview: Eldad Ben Aharon on the Use of Oral History in the Study of International Relations, the American Oral History Association, 14.2.2020.
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- Doing Oral History with the Israeli Elite and the Question of Methodology in International Relations Research | 2020
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Doing Oral History with the Israeli Elite and the Question of Methodology in International Relations Research, in: The Oral History Review, 47:1, 1–23, DOI: 10.1080/00940798.2019.1702467.
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- Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide | 2019
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide, 1.12.2019.
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- הקונגרס האמריקאי הכיר סוף סוף ברצח העם הארמני. עכשיו תור ישראל | 2019
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): הקונגרס האמריקאי הכיר סוף סוף ברצח העם הארמני. עכשיו תור ישראל, שיחה מקומית, 16.11.2019.
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- הכרה ברצח העם הארמני היא הכרה באוניברסליות של השואה | 2019
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): הכרה ברצח העם הארמני היא הכרה באוניברסליות של השואה, שיחה מקומית, 1.5.2019.
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- Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide | 2019
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide. (Hebrew), in: Mitvim: The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, 1–15, www.mitvim.org.il/(...).
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- Review, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009, Fatma Müge Göçek | 2018
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2018): Review, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009, Fatma Müge Göçek, in: Journal of Social History, 51:3, 656-659, https://academic-oup-com.ezproxy01.rhul.ac.uk/jsh/article/51/3/656/2924802.
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- Superpower by Invitation | 2018
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2018): Superpower by Invitation. Late Cold War diplomacy and leveraging Armenian terrorism as a means to rapprochement in Israeli-Turkish relations (1980–1987), in: Cold War History, 19:2, 275–293, DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2018.1483342.
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- Review, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu | 2017
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2017): Review, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, in: Patterns of Prejudice, 51:2, 211-213, https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy01.rhul.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/0031322X.2017.1287464.
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- Between Ankara and Jerusalem | 2017
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2017): Between Ankara and Jerusalem. The Armenian Genocide as a Zero-Sum Game in Israel's Foreign Policy (1980’s -2010’s), in: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 20:5, 459–476, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385932.
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- Review, Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide, Laura Marchand & Guillaume Perrier | 2016
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2016): Review, Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide, Laura Marchand & Guillaume Perrier, in: Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 22:4, https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy01.rhul.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/17504902.2016.1224646.
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- Review, They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide, Ronald Grigor Suny | 2016
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2016): Review, They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide, Ronald Grigor Suny, in: H-Soz-Kult, 1-3, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-24026.
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- A Unique Denial: Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide | 2015
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2015): A Unique Denial: Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide, in: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 42:4, 638–654, DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2015.1043514.
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- Interview with Eldad Ben Aharon about MA programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the University of Amsterdam | 2013
Ben Aharon, Eldad (2013): Interview with Eldad Ben Aharon about MA programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the University of Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam, 28.12.2013.
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