Jonathan B Isacoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 2547397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan B Isacoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Isacoff |
| SIGNATURE | ISACOFF J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gonzaga University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
T areq B aconi . Hamas Contained
Tareq Baconi has written an authoritative work on the history of Hamas, one that will be the definitive text on the subject for many years to come. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance is impressive both for its clarity and for its comprehensiveness. The degree of archival and secondary sources is comparable to that in works on much broader topics covering many more pages. The text is written in a sophisticated yet…
John Chalcraft. Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
John Chalcraft has written a definitive account of contentious politics in the modern Middle East. The book succeeds beyond anything previously written in bringing theoretical and historical rigor to those issues. Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East seeks to answer important questions: What contributions have contentious politics made toward historical change in the region? To what extent do such mobilizations compete with mo…
Why IR Needs Deweyan Pragmatism
This article argues that international relations (IR) theory, defined by its paradigms, theories, and models, has responded not to questions of human experience in world politics, but rather, has been primarily an exercise in self-definitional or privately satisfying research interests. I demonstrate this through analysis of two of the most cited and discussed IR approaches of the past half-century, Waltz's structural realism and Wendt's construc…
Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Nearly all empirical work in political science is fundamentally historical, yet very little attention has been given to the problem of grounding claims to historical knowledge. In Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jonathan B. Isacoff constructs the nature of historical knowledge by deftly examining the multiple histories of the Arab-Israeli conflict written by generations of Israeli scholars. He also undertakes briefer analysis of literature, dra…
Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict
When doing political science research, how do we know that one story is not just as good as the next? Every historical school of thought purports to provide a "true" account of its subject matter. But contradictory schools of thought can not all be given equal weight. While much has been written on the epistemological question of objectivity in history, remarkably little work has been done regarding the practical problem encountered by political …
Systemic Interpretations and the National Interest
In addressing the interplay of international forces and domestic policy, materialist frameworks such as neorealism and neoliberalism emphasize the influence of exogenously given systemic incentives on state and societal choices. However, these approaches are insufficient to the extent that material incentives must be interpreted and shifts in such interpretations may legitimate transformations of state and societal interests. In this article, we …
On the Historical Imagination of International Relations
Despite the recent profusion of historical scholarship in International Relations (IR), there has been little questioning of the positivist assumptions upon which much of that work is premised. This is important because if the assumptions upon which historical knowledge within IR scholarship is constructed were found to be flawed, then explanations that appear to successfully account for historical cases might not be as accurate as we would like …
Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict
When doing political science research, how do we know that one story is not just as good as the next? Every historical school of thought purports to provide a "true" account of its subject matter. But contradictory schools of thought can not all be given equal weight. While much has been written on the epistemological question of objectivity in history, remarkably little work has been done regarding the practical problem encountered by political …
On the Historical Imagination of International Relations
Despite the recent profusion of historical scholarship in International Relations (IR), there has been little questioning of the positivist assumptions upon which much of that work is premised. This is important because if the assumptions upon which historical knowledge within IR scholarship is constructed were found to be flawed, then explanations that appear to successfully account for historical cases might not be as accurate as we would like …
Why IR Needs Deweyan Pragmatism
This article argues that international relations (IR) theory, defined by its paradigms, theories, and models, has responded not to questions of human experience in world politics, but rather, has been primarily an exercise in self-definitional or privately satisfying research interests. I demonstrate this through analysis of two of the most cited and discussed IR approaches of the past half-century, Waltz's structural realism and Wendt's construc…
Systemic Interpretations and the National Interest
In addressing the interplay of international forces and domestic policy, materialist frameworks such as neorealism and neoliberalism emphasize the influence of exogenously given systemic incentives on state and societal choices. However, these approaches are insufficient to the extent that material incentives must be interpreted and shifts in such interpretations may legitimate transformations of state and societal interests. In this article, we …
On the Historical Imagination of International Relations
Despite the recent profusion of historical scholarship in International Relations (IR), there has been little questioning of the positivist assumptions upon which much of that work is premised. This is important because if the assumptions upon which historical knowledge within IR scholarship is constructed were found to be flawed, then explanations that appear to successfully account for historical cases might not be as accurate as we would like …
Systemic Interpretations and the National Interest
In addressing the interplay of international forces and domestic policy, materialist frameworks such as neorealism and neoliberalism emphasize the influence of exogenously given systemic incentives on state and societal choices. However, these approaches are insufficient to the extent that material incentives must be interpreted and shifts in such interpretations may legitimate transformations of state and societal interests. In this article, we …
Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict
When doing political science research, how do we know that one story is not just as good as the next? Every historical school of thought purports to provide a "true" account of its subject matter. But contradictory schools of thought can not all be given equal weight. While much has been written on the epistemological question of objectivity in history, remarkably little work has been done regarding the practical problem encountered by political …
Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Nearly all empirical work in political science is fundamentally historical, yet very little attention has been given to the problem of grounding claims to historical knowledge. In Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jonathan B. Isacoff constructs the nature of historical knowledge by deftly examining the multiple histories of the Arab-Israeli conflict written by generations of Israeli scholars. He also undertakes briefer analysis of literature, dra…
Why IR Needs Deweyan Pragmatism
This article argues that international relations (IR) theory, defined by its paradigms, theories, and models, has responded not to questions of human experience in world politics, but rather, has been primarily an exercise in self-definitional or privately satisfying research interests. I demonstrate this through analysis of two of the most cited and discussed IR approaches of the past half-century, Waltz's structural realism and Wendt's construc…
John Chalcraft. Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
John Chalcraft has written a definitive account of contentious politics in the modern Middle East. The book succeeds beyond anything previously written in bringing theoretical and historical rigor to those issues. Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East seeks to answer important questions: What contributions have contentious politics made toward historical change in the region? To what extent do such mobilizations compete with mo…
T areq B aconi . Hamas Contained
Tareq Baconi has written an authoritative work on the history of Hamas, one that will be the definitive text on the subject for many years to come. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance is impressive both for its clarity and for its comprehensiveness. The degree of archival and secondary sources is comparable to that in works on much broader topics covering many more pages. The text is written in a sophisticated yet…
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