Ehud Eiran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1162900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ehud Eiran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ehud |
| FAMILY NAME | Eiran |
| SIGNATURE | EIRAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3092-527X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Techno-Digital Vulnerability and Intelligence Failures
Scholars and practitioners of international relations and security studies view technological capabilities in general, and digital ones in particular, as crucial to enhancing state power. Among other things, digital technologies sharpen intelligence, thus reducing the likelihood of strategic surprise by improving situational awareness and strengthening deterrence. Yet the empirical record of the early twenty-first century presents a paradox: stat…
Why do some limited regional conflicts in the maritime domain have global consequences? Evidence from two Middle Eastern wars
This article investigates the conditions under which some limited regional conflicts generate disproportionate global consequences in the maritime domain. While global wars predictably disrupt global maritime systems, existing scholarship offers limited theoretical leverage for explaining why some geographically bounded conflicts reverberate across global trade, shipping, and naval order whereas others remain locally contained. The study advances…
The vanishing watchman: The rise and decline of early warning
This article investigates the rise and decline of early warning as a priority task for intelligence agencies. The article shows that shifts in the prioritization of early warning are shaped by a combination of material, institutional, ideational, and technological factors, as well as by focusing events – rather than simply reflecting the rise and fall of external threats, as commonly argued. The changing external threat environment leads to the r…
Populism in international relations: Champion Diplomacy
This article examines how populism reconfigures diplomacy. We contend that populist leaders practice a new form of diplomacy, i.e., champion diplomacy, which poses significant problems for negotiating and implementing international agreements. Portraying themselves as championing the causes of the people in its supposed struggle against the elites, champion diplomats sideline career diplomats, use simple and often coarse language, and prefer dire…
Hidden Caravans in the Arava: The Clandestine Meetings of King Hussein and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The interview with Amos Eiran offers a first-hand account of clandestine talks between then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein, between 1974 and 1977. Eiran, then the Director General of the Prime Minister's office (1975–1977), participated in most of the talks. His account offers unknown details, as well as reflections on why the talks did not lead to a breakthrough at that time. Eiran's account reflects a King Hussein who is confiden…
Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020
Annexation attempts threaten international security and the rules-based world order. Yet, studies of annexation are rare, whilst the scant relevant literature is great-power centric. This article therefore asks why some non-great power annexations succeed, whereas others do not. Applying Putnam's two-level game framework, it analyses an occupier's: (1) domestic politics; (2) international relations; and (3) interactions between these two levels o…
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…
Shared Society: Concept, implementation and the road ahead
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Book Forum
Ian S. Lustick, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Naval Power and Effects of Third-Party Trade on Conflict
This study argues that the effect of third-party trade on dyadic conflicts is conditional on the naval power of both the potential conflict initiator and its target state. This conditional effect occurs mainly because naval power allows trade-integrated initiators to reduce their trade dependence on a given trade partner and its allies more easily. At the same time, the target’s naval power increases the costs that conflict inflict on the initiat…
Post-Colonial Settlement Strategy
Negative Cases: India in Goa, Libya in Chad and Mauritania in Western Sahara
The chapter investigates three cases of prolonged occupation from the post-colonial era that did not produce a settlement project: India in Goa (1961 onwards), Libya in Chad (1974-1992) and Mauritania in Western Sahara (1975-1979). The cases serve as “negative cases”.
The Moroccan Settlement Project in Western Sahara (1975–) and the Indonesian Settlement Project in East Timor (1975–99)
The chapter investigates the Moroccan settlement project in the Western Sahara and the Indonesian settlement project in East-Timor (1975-1999). It uses the framework advanced in the book and shows that both projects were meant to secure permeant territorial expansion into occupied regions. Following the model, the chapter analyses the four variables that led to the launch of the settlement projects: Legally plausible case for expansion, American …
Conclusion
The chapter investigates three cases of states that sought territorial expansion into a neighboring territory in the post-colonial era. They then occupied the sought-after territory for an extended period of time. However, their control did not produce a settlement project: India in Goa (1961 onwards), Libya in Chad (1974-1992) and Mauritania in Western Sahara (1975-1979). The cases serve as “negative cases”, to test the robustness of the model a…
Israel’s ‘turn to the sea’ and its effect on Israeli regional policy
The article analyses the effect of Israel’s new maritime orientation on its foreign policy. It first demonstrates that in the last two decades Israel has changed its maritime posture in three important ways: it has developed energy dependence on offshore gas, begun extensive seawater desalination and dramatically expanded its navy’s platforms and missions. The paper then investigates the effects of these changes on Israel’s bilateral relations wi…
Post-Colonial Settlement Strategy
Explores the motivations behind contemporary (post-1960) settlement projects into occupied territoriesSettlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nationals into a territory not under their sovereignty. Ehud Eiran explains why states launch settlement projects into occupied areas and introduces the international environment as an important enabling …
Regional maritime security in the eastern Mediterranean: Expectations and Reality
Recent developments in the eastern Mediterranean, such as significant gas finds; disagreements over the demarcation of maritime boundaries; large-scale violence and political instability following the Arab Spring; mass migration via sea routes; Great Power dynamics in the region; and environmental hazards, make the political entities along the shores of the eastern Mediterranean part of a regional security complex and create strong incentives for…
Israel Turns to the Sea
Since the mid-1990s, both the Israeli state and Israeli society have been developing and implementing several separate new policies regarding the country’s seas. These include the extraction of offshore hydrocarbons; expansion of the navy; massive desalination projects; and several legislative, planning, and zoning initiatives. Put together, these changes amount to a “turn to the sea” that profoundly affects Israel’s economy, foreign policy, and …
How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Radical Flanks and Territorial Control in the Modern Era
Old (Molotov) cocktails in new bottles? "Price-tag" and settler violence in Israel and the West Bank
In the early morning of July 31, 2015, masked attackers threw firebombs into two Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Duma, south of Nablus, killing three Palestinian civilians. Contrary to claims by Israeli and Palestinian politicians, this attack was neither an isolated anomaly nor just another incident of settler violence. Instead, it was the latest attack in an important but largely unknown phenomenon called “price-tag,” in which a l…
Between land and sea: Spaces and conflict intensity
Between land and sea: spaces and conflict intensity. Territory Politics Governance. Do different levels of sovereignty affect the intensity of international conflicts that unfold there? The paper answers this question by comparing territorial conflicts between Israel and Lebanon in two spaces: land and sea. These spaces are subject to different levels of sovereignty. On land, sovereignty is understood to be full and indivisible. In the portion of…
Radicalizing Religion? Religious Identity and Settlers' Behavior
Does religious identity prompt radical action? This article presents a model of individual-level radical action. Drawing mostly on collective action theory the article posits that organizational membership drives the effect of religious identity on individual-level radical action. Using survey data the article assesses the behavior of Jewish settlers in the West Bank in the face of the 2005 Gaza withdrawal. The article finds that contra the preva…
The Sum of all Fears: Israel's Perception of a Nuclear-Armed Iran
Explaining the Settlement Project: We Know More, But What More Should We Know
Gershom Gorenberg, Th e Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 (New York: Times Books, 2006). Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories (New York: Nation Books, 2007). Hagai Huberman, Against All Odds: Forty Years of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 1967–2007 (Ariel: Netzrim Publishing, 2008 [in Hebrew])
Israeli Settlement Activity in the West Bank and Gaza: A Brief History
Old (Molotov) cocktails in new bottles? "Price-tag" and settler violence in Israel and the West Bank
In the early morning of July 31, 2015, masked attackers threw firebombs into two Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Duma, south of Nablus, killing three Palestinian civilians. Contrary to claims by Israeli and Palestinian politicians, this attack was neither an isolated anomaly nor just another incident of settler violence. Instead, it was the latest attack in an important but largely unknown phenomenon called “price-tag,” in which a l…
Israel Turns to the Sea
Since the mid-1990s, both the Israeli state and Israeli society have been developing and implementing several separate new policies regarding the country’s seas. These include the extraction of offshore hydrocarbons; expansion of the navy; massive desalination projects; and several legislative, planning, and zoning initiatives. Put together, these changes amount to a “turn to the sea” that profoundly affects Israel’s economy, foreign policy, and …
How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Radical Flanks and Territorial Control in the Modern Era
Populism in international relations: Champion Diplomacy
This article examines how populism reconfigures diplomacy. We contend that populist leaders practice a new form of diplomacy, i.e., champion diplomacy, which poses significant problems for negotiating and implementing international agreements. Portraying themselves as championing the causes of the people in its supposed struggle against the elites, champion diplomats sideline career diplomats, use simple and often coarse language, and prefer dire…
Naval Power and Effects of Third-Party Trade on Conflict
This study argues that the effect of third-party trade on dyadic conflicts is conditional on the naval power of both the potential conflict initiator and its target state. This conditional effect occurs mainly because naval power allows trade-integrated initiators to reduce their trade dependence on a given trade partner and its allies more easily. At the same time, the target’s naval power increases the costs that conflict inflict on the initiat…
Radicalizing Religion? Religious Identity and Settlers' Behavior
Does religious identity prompt radical action? This article presents a model of individual-level radical action. Drawing mostly on collective action theory the article posits that organizational membership drives the effect of religious identity on individual-level radical action. Using survey data the article assesses the behavior of Jewish settlers in the West Bank in the face of the 2005 Gaza withdrawal. The article finds that contra the preva…
Book Forum
Ian S. Lustick, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Israel’s ‘turn to the sea’ and its effect on Israeli regional policy
The article analyses the effect of Israel’s new maritime orientation on its foreign policy. It first demonstrates that in the last two decades Israel has changed its maritime posture in three important ways: it has developed energy dependence on offshore gas, begun extensive seawater desalination and dramatically expanded its navy’s platforms and missions. The paper then investigates the effects of these changes on Israel’s bilateral relations wi…
Regional maritime security in the eastern Mediterranean: Expectations and Reality
Recent developments in the eastern Mediterranean, such as significant gas finds; disagreements over the demarcation of maritime boundaries; large-scale violence and political instability following the Arab Spring; mass migration via sea routes; Great Power dynamics in the region; and environmental hazards, make the political entities along the shores of the eastern Mediterranean part of a regional security complex and create strong incentives for…
Between land and sea: Spaces and conflict intensity
Between land and sea: spaces and conflict intensity. Territory Politics Governance. Do different levels of sovereignty affect the intensity of international conflicts that unfold there? The paper answers this question by comparing territorial conflicts between Israel and Lebanon in two spaces: land and sea. These spaces are subject to different levels of sovereignty. On land, sovereignty is understood to be full and indivisible. In the portion of…
The Sum of all Fears: Israel's Perception of a Nuclear-Armed Iran
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Israeli Settlement Activity in the West Bank and Gaza: A Brief History
Explaining the Settlement Project: We Know More, But What More Should We Know
Gershom Gorenberg, Th e Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 (New York: Times Books, 2006). Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories (New York: Nation Books, 2007). Hagai Huberman, Against All Odds: Forty Years of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 1967–2007 (Ariel: Netzrim Publishing, 2008 [in Hebrew])
The Sum of all Fears: Israel's Perception of a Nuclear-Armed Iran
Radicalizing Religion? Religious Identity and Settlers' Behavior
Does religious identity prompt radical action? This article presents a model of individual-level radical action. Drawing mostly on collective action theory the article posits that organizational membership drives the effect of religious identity on individual-level radical action. Using survey data the article assesses the behavior of Jewish settlers in the West Bank in the face of the 2005 Gaza withdrawal. The article finds that contra the preva…
Between land and sea: Spaces and conflict intensity
Between land and sea: spaces and conflict intensity. Territory Politics Governance. Do different levels of sovereignty affect the intensity of international conflicts that unfold there? The paper answers this question by comparing territorial conflicts between Israel and Lebanon in two spaces: land and sea. These spaces are subject to different levels of sovereignty. On land, sovereignty is understood to be full and indivisible. In the portion of…
Israel Turns to the Sea
Since the mid-1990s, both the Israeli state and Israeli society have been developing and implementing several separate new policies regarding the country’s seas. These include the extraction of offshore hydrocarbons; expansion of the navy; massive desalination projects; and several legislative, planning, and zoning initiatives. Put together, these changes amount to a “turn to the sea” that profoundly affects Israel’s economy, foreign policy, and …
How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Radical Flanks and Territorial Control in the Modern Era
Old (Molotov) cocktails in new bottles? "Price-tag" and settler violence in Israel and the West Bank
In the early morning of July 31, 2015, masked attackers threw firebombs into two Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Duma, south of Nablus, killing three Palestinian civilians. Contrary to claims by Israeli and Palestinian politicians, this attack was neither an isolated anomaly nor just another incident of settler violence. Instead, it was the latest attack in an important but largely unknown phenomenon called “price-tag,” in which a l…
Post-Colonial Settlement Strategy
Negative Cases: India in Goa, Libya in Chad and Mauritania in Western Sahara
The chapter investigates three cases of prolonged occupation from the post-colonial era that did not produce a settlement project: India in Goa (1961 onwards), Libya in Chad (1974-1992) and Mauritania in Western Sahara (1975-1979). The cases serve as “negative cases”.
The Moroccan Settlement Project in Western Sahara (1975–) and the Indonesian Settlement Project in East Timor (1975–99)
The chapter investigates the Moroccan settlement project in the Western Sahara and the Indonesian settlement project in East-Timor (1975-1999). It uses the framework advanced in the book and shows that both projects were meant to secure permeant territorial expansion into occupied regions. Following the model, the chapter analyses the four variables that led to the launch of the settlement projects: Legally plausible case for expansion, American …
Conclusion
The chapter investigates three cases of states that sought territorial expansion into a neighboring territory in the post-colonial era. They then occupied the sought-after territory for an extended period of time. However, their control did not produce a settlement project: India in Goa (1961 onwards), Libya in Chad (1974-1992) and Mauritania in Western Sahara (1975-1979). The cases serve as “negative cases”, to test the robustness of the model a…
Israel’s ‘turn to the sea’ and its effect on Israeli regional policy
The article analyses the effect of Israel’s new maritime orientation on its foreign policy. It first demonstrates that in the last two decades Israel has changed its maritime posture in three important ways: it has developed energy dependence on offshore gas, begun extensive seawater desalination and dramatically expanded its navy’s platforms and missions. The paper then investigates the effects of these changes on Israel’s bilateral relations wi…
Post-Colonial Settlement Strategy
Explores the motivations behind contemporary (post-1960) settlement projects into occupied territoriesSettlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nationals into a territory not under their sovereignty. Ehud Eiran explains why states launch settlement projects into occupied areas and introduces the international environment as an important enabling …
Regional maritime security in the eastern Mediterranean: Expectations and Reality
Recent developments in the eastern Mediterranean, such as significant gas finds; disagreements over the demarcation of maritime boundaries; large-scale violence and political instability following the Arab Spring; mass migration via sea routes; Great Power dynamics in the region; and environmental hazards, make the political entities along the shores of the eastern Mediterranean part of a regional security complex and create strong incentives for…
Naval Power and Effects of Third-Party Trade on Conflict
This study argues that the effect of third-party trade on dyadic conflicts is conditional on the naval power of both the potential conflict initiator and its target state. This conditional effect occurs mainly because naval power allows trade-integrated initiators to reduce their trade dependence on a given trade partner and its allies more easily. At the same time, the target’s naval power increases the costs that conflict inflict on the initiat…
Shared Society: Concept, implementation and the road ahead
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Book Forum
Ian S. Lustick, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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…
Hidden Caravans in the Arava: The Clandestine Meetings of King Hussein and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The interview with Amos Eiran offers a first-hand account of clandestine talks between then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein, between 1974 and 1977. Eiran, then the Director General of the Prime Minister's office (1975–1977), participated in most of the talks. His account offers unknown details, as well as reflections on why the talks did not lead to a breakthrough at that time. Eiran's account reflects a King Hussein who is confiden…
Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020
Annexation attempts threaten international security and the rules-based world order. Yet, studies of annexation are rare, whilst the scant relevant literature is great-power centric. This article therefore asks why some non-great power annexations succeed, whereas others do not. Applying Putnam's two-level game framework, it analyses an occupier's: (1) domestic politics; (2) international relations; and (3) interactions between these two levels o…
The vanishing watchman: The rise and decline of early warning
This article investigates the rise and decline of early warning as a priority task for intelligence agencies. The article shows that shifts in the prioritization of early warning are shaped by a combination of material, institutional, ideational, and technological factors, as well as by focusing events – rather than simply reflecting the rise and fall of external threats, as commonly argued. The changing external threat environment leads to the r…
Populism in international relations: Champion Diplomacy
This article examines how populism reconfigures diplomacy. We contend that populist leaders practice a new form of diplomacy, i.e., champion diplomacy, which poses significant problems for negotiating and implementing international agreements. Portraying themselves as championing the causes of the people in its supposed struggle against the elites, champion diplomats sideline career diplomats, use simple and often coarse language, and prefer dire…
Techno-Digital Vulnerability and Intelligence Failures
Scholars and practitioners of international relations and security studies view technological capabilities in general, and digital ones in particular, as crucial to enhancing state power. Among other things, digital technologies sharpen intelligence, thus reducing the likelihood of strategic surprise by improving situational awareness and strengthening deterrence. Yet the empirical record of the early twenty-first century presents a paradox: stat…
Political science (20 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Settlement (finance) (6 works)