Jeremy Pressman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1153626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Pressman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Pressman |
| SIGNATURE | PRESSMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9752-756X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Advantageous comparison: Israel’s response to allegations of human rights violations
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel protests in the United States. Since January 2017, when CCC first started counting protest events and their crowd sizes, the current pro-Palestine protest wave involves the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event. We hypothesize three possible reasons for the size of the pro-Palestine mob…
Profile: The diffusion of global protests after George Floyd’s murder
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US Recognition of Israeli Territorial Claims in the Golan Heights and Jerusalem: Implications for the Norm against Acquisition of Territory by Force
This article investigates the effects of the United States’ recognition both of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and of the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights on the international norm against territorial expansion by force. We conclude that these moves — in 2017 and 2019, respectively — did not weaken the norm. Our findings are important for the Arab-Israeli conflict itself as well as for the broader question of the strength of international n…
Egypt, Israel, and the United States at the Autonomy Talks, 1979
Most scholars writing on Arab-Israeli matters barely address the Egyptian-Israeli autonomy talks, and what has been written largely dismisses them as Egyptian and United States capitulation to Israeli expansion. But a focus on archival documents from the first months of the talks in 1979 demonstrates three points at odds with this conventional narrative. Whilst Egyptian negotiators were ultimately rebuffed, Egypt pushed for significant moves towa…
Protests Under Trump, 2017–2021
The Trump presidency featured a high volume of contentious mobilization. We describe the collection and aggregation of protest mobilization data from 2017 to 2021 and offer five observations. First, the protests were sustained at a high level throughout the Trump presidency, with the largest subset of protests positioned against Trump and the administration’s policies. Second, the grievances that drove the protests varied. Third, the National Stu…
The Rocky Future of the US-Israeli Special Relationship
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Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: An Initial Description of Limited Change
The Covid19 pandemic did not cause a dramatic change in the dominant protest repertoire in the United States. Street protests and all the associated behaviors such as marching, carrying signs, chanting, and speeches continued to be the major form of activity. Nonetheless, based on media reports and Crowd Counting Consortium data, we observed three important changes. First, protestors' issues of concern shifted to public health and economic polici…
The sword is not enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the limits of military force
The Arab–Israeli conflict has been at the centre of international affairs for decades. Despite repeated political efforts, the confrontation and casualties continue, especially in fighting between Israelis and Palestinians. This new assessment emphasizes the role that military force plays in blocking a diplomatic resolution. Many Arabs and Israelis believe that the only way to survive or to be secure is through the development, threat, and use of…
Gender Imbalance in Expert Testimony at U.S. Senate Hearings”: The Forum
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Horizontal Inequality and Violent Unrest in Jerusalem
In 2014 and then again in 2015-16 in Jerusalem, some Palestinians attacked Israelis and others, including through stabbings and vehicular attacks. A case study of Israeli rule of Palestinians in Jerusalem highlights the causal role of horizontal inequality or inter-group disparities in cultural, economic, political, and social realms. Palestinians are shortchanged in each realm, and this helps fuel the violence in the city. The case also adds fur…
History in conflict: Israeli–Palestinian speeches at the United Nations, 1998–2016’
A close textual study of Israeli and Palestinian speeches at the annual UN General Debate from 1998 to 2016 demonstrates how conflict is embedded in historical presentations. At the same time, the exclusionary, zero-sum history in these UN speeches becomes one of several obstacles for moving from conflict to conflict resolution. Conflict and history’s public manifestations are mutually reinforcing. From a thematic perspective, Israeli leaders tal…
Foreign cues and public views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
As foreign sources in the news might help the public assess their home country’s foreign policies, scholars have recently turned attention to the effects of foreign source cues on domestic public opinion. Using original survey experiments, we explore the effects of domestic (United States) and foreign (Israeli, British, and Palestinian) criticism of Israel’s military actions and settlements on US attitudes towards the Israeli–Palestinian conflict…
Throwing stones in social science: Non-violence, unarmed violence, and the first intifada
Social scientists treat stone-throwing as a non-violent act or argue that protest movements may be primarily non-violent despite stone-throwing. However, this study of an iconic example, the first intifada (Palestinian uprising, 1987–1993), demonstrates that stone-throwing is better characterized as unarmed violence. Definitions of violence underscore that throwing rocks is a violent act. Moreover, informed observers and data collected on stone-i…
America's Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State
America’s Dream Palace is a thoughtful, well-researched treatment of how the Cold War and the U.S. national security apparatus influenced the development of Middle East expertise at universities both in the United States and in the Middle East. Khalil’s archival work provides a rich foundation of stories and personalities, but it does not lose sight of the overarching themes and patterns.Although Chapter 1 looks at U.S. interests in the Middle Ea…
American engagement and the pathways to Arab–Israeli peace
This close empirical study of decades of US efforts to bring peace between Arab states and Israel helps reflect on Arild Underdal and Oran R. Young’s leadership typologies. Distinguishing between coercive leadership based on the incentives and sanctions that robust capabilities make possible and instrumental leadership focused more on talking, skilled mediation, and policy innovation is useful. However, this US mediation demonstrates that the two…
Dominic Tierney, How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War
Negotiating the Promised Land: The End of Innocence
Martin Indyk, Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009). Daniel Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2008). Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (New York: Bantam Dell, 2008)
Power without Influence: The Bush Administration's Foreign Policy Failure in the Middle East
The administration of President George W. Bush was deeply involved in the Middle East, but its efforts did not advance U.S. national security. In the realms of counterterrorism, democracy promotion, and nonconventional proliferation, the Bush administration failed to achieve its objectives. Although the United States did not suffer a second direct attack after September 11, 2001, the terrorism situation worsened as many other countries came under…
The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Case of The Lemon Tree
This article uses the The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan (2006) to demonstrate how one type of book, a literary non-fiction book written for popular audiences, can be used in a political science course such as one on the Arab–Israeli conflict. The book concisely presents multiple Arab–Israeli perspectives and enlivens the history and infuses it with both broader and deeper meaning. After a brief summary of the plot, the article gives examples of polit…
Time and the Intractability of Territorial Disputes
Warring friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics
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Throwing stones in social science: Non-violence, unarmed violence, and the first intifada
Social scientists treat stone-throwing as a non-violent act or argue that protest movements may be primarily non-violent despite stone-throwing. However, this study of an iconic example, the first intifada (Palestinian uprising, 1987–1993), demonstrates that stone-throwing is better characterized as unarmed violence. Definitions of violence underscore that throwing rocks is a violent act. Moreover, informed observers and data collected on stone-i…
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
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Visions in Collision: What Happened at Camp David and Taba
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Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: An Initial Description of Limited Change
The Covid19 pandemic did not cause a dramatic change in the dominant protest repertoire in the United States. Street protests and all the associated behaviors such as marching, carrying signs, chanting, and speeches continued to be the major form of activity. Nonetheless, based on media reports and Crowd Counting Consortium data, we observed three important changes. First, protestors' issues of concern shifted to public health and economic polici…
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Power without Influence: The Bush Administration's Foreign Policy Failure in the Middle East
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Israeli Unilateralism and Israeli?Palestinian Relations, 2001?2006
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