Yehonatan Abramson
Biographic Data
| ID | 150818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yehonatan Abramson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yehonatan |
| FAMILY NAME | Abramson |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAMSON Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6410-1212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Do Appeals to the Diaspora Affect their Attachment to the Homeland? Findings from Jewish-Americans before and during the Israel-Hamas War
Due to the growing importance of diasporas in contemporary geopolitics, many states seek to cultivate diasporic attachment and encourage diaspora mobilization using strategic narratives. Are such appeals effective? We report results from a pre-registered two-wave survey experiment conducted among Jewish Americans before and during the Israel-Hamas war. Our intervention assesses the impact of three common appeals identified by prior work: threats …
It’s All Personal’
State-led engagement with diaspora communities abroad has been an increasingly salient feature in international politics. In addition to governments’ attempts to mobilise diaspora collectives, existing research highlights the importance governments attach to key diasporic individuals (diasporans). How do governments decide which diasporans to harness? This article argues that states use tailored and personalised strategies to mobilise diasporans.…
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion
When evaluating the impact of naming and shaming on public opinion regarding human rights, existing scholarship focuses on messages coming from ingroup or outgroup critics. Diaspora critics, increasingly vocal and visible in recent years, occupy an in‐between identity. What, if any, is the impact of criticism coming from such critics? We address this question by fielding a pre‐registered survey experiment in Israel, a country that routinely faces…
Laundry-on-Air
TV shows and movies, as dominant forms of modern popular culture, often trigger domestic discussions, especially when dealing with sensitive and thorny issues in society. But what happens when these domestically-created cultural productions are globally circulated and consumed? In recent years, especially following the streaming revolution, there have been increasing numbers of national TV shows and films that are internationally distributed and …
Securitizing the nation beyond the state
Securitization theory has paid extensive attention to transnational issues, actors, and processes. Surprisingly, however, only little attention has been paid to the securitization of diaspora communities, defined as overseas citizens or co-nationals abroad. This article fills this gap by developing an analytical framework to study the securitization of diasporas, focusing on three discursive formations: diasporas as threatening actors, as objects…
Saving face in the cyberspace
How do states "save face" following a cyber intrusion directed at them? Recent scholarship demonstrates that the covert nature of cyber intrusions allows states to respond with restraint, avoiding escalation. But what happens when cyber intrusions become public and are highly visible? This article examines the rhetorical strategies employed by authoritarian Gulf states to mitigate the image-related costs associated with a public cyber intrusion. …
Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora
The nexus between transnational mobilization and Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers a productive platform for studying the formation of scientific activism, the influence of mobilization on scientific developments, and the ways science is used to achieve government goals. Integrating concepts from both sets of literature - particularly national sociotechnical imaginaries and socio-spatial positionality - this article explores how Dr Chai…
The Servant of Many Masters
Personal commitments are a ubiquitous but undertheorized phenomenon in the everyday wheels of world politics. While resonating with multiple threads in international relations theory, the role of individuals’ commitments in statecraft, diplomacy, and foreign policy has hardly been addressed in and of itself. Drawing on insights from symbolic interactionism and organizational psychology, this article conceptualizes the notion of commitment highlig…
Securing the diasporic 'self' by travelling abroad
In recent years, the literature on diaspora politics has focused primarily on why and when migrant or ethno-religious groups adopt a diasporic stance and mobilise on behalf of their homeland. The ability of a community to sustain a diasporic stance across generations is less explored and often assumed to be dependent on discrimination in the host country or events in the homeland. By contrast, this article focuses on internal dynamics of the Jewi…
Graduate Students and Scholars Funded
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A pragmatist vocation for International Relations
The turns to pragmatism and practice theory in recent years are indicative of a fragmented discipline searching for the ends of International Relations theory. While diverse and contested, both bring forth conceptual language — habit, habitus, field, or practice — that promises to reorient the field on different grounds, with different implications for thinking about the vocation of International Relations. This article considers the contribution…
Making a homeland, constructing a diaspora
The challenges of diaspora migration
The extent to which migrants integrate in their new society is at the centre of policy decisions and social science research. Within the vast literature on this topic, the integration of diaspora m
Making a homeland, constructing a diaspora
Securing the diasporic 'self' by travelling abroad
In recent years, the literature on diaspora politics has focused primarily on why and when migrant or ethno-religious groups adopt a diasporic stance and mobilise on behalf of their homeland. The ability of a community to sustain a diasporic stance across generations is less explored and often assumed to be dependent on discrimination in the host country or events in the homeland. By contrast, this article focuses on internal dynamics of the Jewi…
A pragmatist vocation for International Relations
The turns to pragmatism and practice theory in recent years are indicative of a fragmented discipline searching for the ends of International Relations theory. While diverse and contested, both bring forth conceptual language — habit, habitus, field, or practice — that promises to reorient the field on different grounds, with different implications for thinking about the vocation of International Relations. This article considers the contribution…
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion
When evaluating the impact of naming and shaming on public opinion regarding human rights, existing scholarship focuses on messages coming from ingroup or outgroup critics. Diaspora critics, increasingly vocal and visible in recent years, occupy an in‐between identity. What, if any, is the impact of criticism coming from such critics? We address this question by fielding a pre‐registered survey experiment in Israel, a country that routinely faces…
Securitizing the nation beyond the state
Securitization theory has paid extensive attention to transnational issues, actors, and processes. Surprisingly, however, only little attention has been paid to the securitization of diaspora communities, defined as overseas citizens or co-nationals abroad. This article fills this gap by developing an analytical framework to study the securitization of diasporas, focusing on three discursive formations: diasporas as threatening actors, as objects…
The Servant of Many Masters
Personal commitments are a ubiquitous but undertheorized phenomenon in the everyday wheels of world politics. While resonating with multiple threads in international relations theory, the role of individuals’ commitments in statecraft, diplomacy, and foreign policy has hardly been addressed in and of itself. Drawing on insights from symbolic interactionism and organizational psychology, this article conceptualizes the notion of commitment highlig…
Saving face in the cyberspace
How do states "save face" following a cyber intrusion directed at them? Recent scholarship demonstrates that the covert nature of cyber intrusions allows states to respond with restraint, avoiding escalation. But what happens when cyber intrusions become public and are highly visible? This article examines the rhetorical strategies employed by authoritarian Gulf states to mitigate the image-related costs associated with a public cyber intrusion. …
Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora
The nexus between transnational mobilization and Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers a productive platform for studying the formation of scientific activism, the influence of mobilization on scientific developments, and the ways science is used to achieve government goals. Integrating concepts from both sets of literature - particularly national sociotechnical imaginaries and socio-spatial positionality - this article explores how Dr Chai…
The challenges of diaspora migration
The extent to which migrants integrate in their new society is at the centre of policy decisions and social science research. Within the vast literature on this topic, the integration of diaspora m
Graduate Students and Scholars Funded
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A pragmatist vocation for International Relations
The turns to pragmatism and practice theory in recent years are indicative of a fragmented discipline searching for the ends of International Relations theory. While diverse and contested, both bring forth conceptual language — habit, habitus, field, or practice — that promises to reorient the field on different grounds, with different implications for thinking about the vocation of International Relations. This article considers the contribution…
Making a homeland, constructing a diaspora
Securing the diasporic 'self' by travelling abroad
In recent years, the literature on diaspora politics has focused primarily on why and when migrant or ethno-religious groups adopt a diasporic stance and mobilise on behalf of their homeland. The ability of a community to sustain a diasporic stance across generations is less explored and often assumed to be dependent on discrimination in the host country or events in the homeland. By contrast, this article focuses on internal dynamics of the Jewi…
Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora
The nexus between transnational mobilization and Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers a productive platform for studying the formation of scientific activism, the influence of mobilization on scientific developments, and the ways science is used to achieve government goals. Integrating concepts from both sets of literature - particularly national sociotechnical imaginaries and socio-spatial positionality - this article explores how Dr Chai…
The Servant of Many Masters
Personal commitments are a ubiquitous but undertheorized phenomenon in the everyday wheels of world politics. While resonating with multiple threads in international relations theory, the role of individuals’ commitments in statecraft, diplomacy, and foreign policy has hardly been addressed in and of itself. Drawing on insights from symbolic interactionism and organizational psychology, this article conceptualizes the notion of commitment highlig…
Saving face in the cyberspace
How do states "save face" following a cyber intrusion directed at them? Recent scholarship demonstrates that the covert nature of cyber intrusions allows states to respond with restraint, avoiding escalation. But what happens when cyber intrusions become public and are highly visible? This article examines the rhetorical strategies employed by authoritarian Gulf states to mitigate the image-related costs associated with a public cyber intrusion. …
Laundry-on-Air
TV shows and movies, as dominant forms of modern popular culture, often trigger domestic discussions, especially when dealing with sensitive and thorny issues in society. But what happens when these domestically-created cultural productions are globally circulated and consumed? In recent years, especially following the streaming revolution, there have been increasing numbers of national TV shows and films that are internationally distributed and …
Securitizing the nation beyond the state
Securitization theory has paid extensive attention to transnational issues, actors, and processes. Surprisingly, however, only little attention has been paid to the securitization of diaspora communities, defined as overseas citizens or co-nationals abroad. This article fills this gap by developing an analytical framework to study the securitization of diasporas, focusing on three discursive formations: diasporas as threatening actors, as objects…
It’s All Personal’
State-led engagement with diaspora communities abroad has been an increasingly salient feature in international politics. In addition to governments’ attempts to mobilise diaspora collectives, existing research highlights the importance governments attach to key diasporic individuals (diasporans). How do governments decide which diasporans to harness? This article argues that states use tailored and personalised strategies to mobilise diasporans.…
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes
Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion
When evaluating the impact of naming and shaming on public opinion regarding human rights, existing scholarship focuses on messages coming from ingroup or outgroup critics. Diaspora critics, increasingly vocal and visible in recent years, occupy an in‐between identity. What, if any, is the impact of criticism coming from such critics? We address this question by fielding a pre‐registered survey experiment in Israel, a country that routinely faces…
Do Appeals to the Diaspora Affect their Attachment to the Homeland? Findings from Jewish-Americans before and during the Israel-Hamas War
Due to the growing importance of diasporas in contemporary geopolitics, many states seek to cultivate diasporic attachment and encourage diaspora mobilization using strategic narratives. Are such appeals effective? We report results from a pre-registered two-wave survey experiment conducted among Jewish Americans before and during the Israel-Hamas war. Our intervention assesses the impact of three common appeals identified by prior work: threats …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Diaspora (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works)