Thursday, February 4th, 2021 (4:00-5:00 pm EST)

Join the

Political Violence and Security Faculty Research Cluster

at the

School of International Service at American University

as they welcome The University of Wisconsin - Madison's

Nadav G. Shelef to discuss his book "Homelands: Shifting Borders and Territorial Disputes"

About the author

Dr. Nadav Shelef is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science. Professor Shelef teaches and studies nationalism, religion and politics, Israeli politics and society, and middle east politics. His current projects focus on understanding how homelands change and the conditions under which religious parties moderate their positions.

Moderated by Boaz Atzili

Dr. Boaz Atzili is a political scientist who researches and teaches international politics. His interest is in international security with an emphasis on the politics of borders and territoriality, deterrence of non-state actors and their host states, and the international aspects of state weakness. His regional focus is in the Middle East, but his research extends to Africa, Europe, and Latin America as well. Atzili's book publications include Triadic Deterrence: Israel, Arab States, and Non-State Actors, Territorial Designs and International Politics: Inside-out and Outside-In, and Good Fences Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict. He has published articles in venues included International Security, Security Studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, International Studies Review, and Territory, Politics, Governance.

About Homelands

Why are some territorial partitions accepted as the appropriate borders of a nation's homeland, whereas in other places conflict continues despite or even because of division of territory? In Homelands, Nadav G. Shelef develops a theory of what homelands are that acknowledges both their importance in domestic and international politics and their change over time. These changes, he argues, driven by domestic political competition and help explain the variation in whether partitions resolve conflict.

Homelands also provides systematic, comparable data about the homeland status of lost territory over time that allow it to bridge the persistent gap between constructivist theories of nationalism and positivist empirical analyses of international relations.

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