Jeremy PressmanAlan R. Bennett Honors Professorship in Political Science Associate Professor of Political Science Coordinator, Middle Eastern Studies minor Blog: djpressman.wordpress.com On Twitter: @djpressman Curriculum VitaeJeremy Pressman (MIT, PhD) studies international relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East politics, and U.S. foreign policy. He is writing a book on force and diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Pressman has held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Sydney, and the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. Pressman previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008). Part of Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace, with Geoffrey Kemp (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997). Arabic translation published in 1999. Articles (Refereed) "Explaining the Carter administration's Israeli-Palestinian Solution," Diplomatic History, forthcoming. “Negotiating the Promised Land: The End of Innocence?” Israel Studies Forum 25, no. 1 (June 2010), pp. 88-98. “Power without Influence: The Bush Administration’s Foreign Policy Failure in the Middle East,” International Security 33, no. 4 (Spring 2009), pp. 149-179. “The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Case of The Lemon Tree.” International Studies Perspectives 9, no. 4 (November 2008), pp. 430-441. “Mediation, Domestic Politics, and the Israeli-Syrian Negotiations, 1991-2000,” Security Studies 16, no. 3 (July-September, 2007), pp. 350-381. “Israeli Unilateralism and Israeli-Palestinian Relations, 2001-2006,” International Studies Perspectives 7, no. 4 (November, 2006), pp. 360-376. “Historical Schools and Political Science: An Arab-Israeli History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Perspectives on Politics 3, no. 3 (September, 2005), pp. 577-582. “Visions in Collision: What Happened at Camp David and Taba?” International Security 28, no. 2 (Fall, 2003), pp. 5-43. “The Second Intifada: An Early Look at the Background and Causes of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Journal of Conflict Studies 22, no. 2 (Fall, 2003), pp. 114-141. “September Statements, October Missiles, November Elections: Domestic Politics, Foreign-Policy Making, and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Security Studies 10, no. 3 (Spring, 2001), pp. 80-114. Chapters, Essays & Other Writing (Selected) "Same old story? Obama and the Arab Uprisings" in Mark Haas and David Lesch, eds., The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012). “The Best Hope – Still?” Boston Review 34, no. 4, July/August 2009 “Modes of Iraqi Response to American Occupation,” in Davis Bobrow, ed., Hegemony Constrained: Evasion, Modification, and Resistance to American Foreign Policy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), pp. 20-40. “From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David: the United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1991-2001” in David Lesch, ed., The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment, 4th ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2007), pp. 257-274. “Rethinking Transnational Counterterrorism: Beyond a National Framework,” Washington Quarterly 30, no. 4, (Autumn 2007), pp. 63-73. “Back to the future: Israel’s existential crisis,” with Robert Blecher, Boston Review 32, no. 4 (July/August 2007), pp. 13-15 “A Brief History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” May 25, 2005, unpublished manuscript. “Leaderless Resistance: the Next Threat?” Current History 102, no. 668 (December 2003), pp. 422-425. Courses National and International Security (POLS 3414) Arab-Israeli Conflict (POLS 3464) Senior Seminar (POLS 4994) Pro-seminar in International Relations (POLS 5300) - graduate International Security (POLS 5315) - graduate |
