Carmela Lutmar
Biographic Data
| ID | 291571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmela Lutmar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmela |
| FAMILY NAME | Lutmar |
| SIGNATURE | LUTMAR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6769-8106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Explaining the Post‐October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan
Crafting and maintaining peace agreements is one of the most critical challenges in international relations and conflict resolution. Despite their initial promise, many such deals have failed, sparking renewed conflict and instability. This article argues that two primary factors influence the durability of these agreements: elite positions and interests reinforced by strong domestic institutions, and mediator involvement and guarantees. Through …
Kuwait’s Humanitarian and Mediation Efforts
Kuwait’s strategic integration of mediation and humanitarian aid has allowed the country to carve out a distinct identity as a regional and global middle power. By balancing these two pillars of its foreign policy, Kuwait has successfully navigated the intricacies of regional geopolitics, bolstering its diplomatic stature. The interaction between institutional continuity and individual agency is central to understanding how Kuwait has cultivated …
Qatar emerges as an authoritarian middle power through strategic specialization and defensive activism in the global system
This study investigates Qatar’s foreign policy through the conceptual lens of emerging middle power behavior, framing it as authoritarian niche diplomacy. Eschewing traditional metrics of power, Qatar has carved out strategic influence through functional specialization in mediation, sports, energy, humanitarian aid, and public diplomacy. Anchored in the logic of defensive activism, Doha transforms its structural vulnerabilities into assets by hed…
Give “peace through globalization” a chance
While the “peace through globalization” literature is primarily framed as an effort to examine whether economic globalization promotes peace, most of its models investigate whether trade reduces conflict. This study argues that by defining different stages in the transition to peace as a dependent variable, the relationship between a state’s exposure to globalization and peace is more complex than theorized in the literature. Even in our still-gl…
Oman’s Niche Diplomacy
Despite being located in one of the world’s most unstable regions—characterized by persistent tensions, turmoil, and conflict—the Sultanate of Oman has successfully maintained a policy of neutrality and adeptly assumed the complex role of mediator, both within the Arabian Peninsula and more broadly across the Middle East. This study examines Oman’s mediation efforts in the Middle East during the 21st century through the lens of niche diplomacy, p…
Trends in Political Science Research
The scholarship on charismatic leadership is interdisciplinary and rapidly evolving. This recent growth is accentuated in liberal democracies where populist parties have been enjoying increasing electoral success. We start this overview with basic definitions of charismatic leadership, then identify three main trends in the current scholarship. Following this, we highlight potential future research avenues and focuses that we believe still lack s…
The Limits of China’s Sharp Power in Israel’s Academic and Media Discourse
The term ‘sharp power’ has become a widely used concept in international relations to describe external influence targeting democracies. China employs sharp power statecraft to shape public perceptions in target countries, aiming to alter opinions and behaviour, undermine political systems and create a favourable consensus by manipulating information. This study explores the nature and impact of China’s sharp power on the democratic resilience of…
Masks Down
Natural disasters can create peaceful diplomatic interactions between conflicting parties, be they warring states or warring domestic factions. Advocates of “disaster diplomacy” argue that while events such as epidemics, earthquakes, floods, windstorms, and tsunamis result in human tragedies, they also generate opportunities for international cooperation, even between enemies. Conversely, natural disasters can also create rifts between friends an…
The Suez Canal
This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years
Suez Canal
Disaster diplomacy
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn worldwide attention to the difficulties inherent in managing disasters. Scholars across disciplines have been forced to consider the impact disasters have on interstate relations, state resilience, patterns of violence and hostility, and the vulnerabilities that condition conflict. This special issue offers new insights to help disentangle the relationship between disasters, conflict, and cooperation, by adhering t…
Academic in-group bias in the top five economics journals
Birds of a feather vote together? EU and Arab League Unga Israel voting
UN General Assembly (UNGA) voting is non-binding, unlike voting in the Security Council (UNSC), yet is considered to reflect states’ interests. This article attempts to explore, compare, and explain patterns in UNGA voting of two regional organisations (ROs) on Israel-related resolutions, and/or issues that are of importance to Israel. Israel has been a unique case when it comes to the UN, which has shown pervasive hostility towards the Jewish st…
Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific
Introducing a new dataset on leadership change in rebel groups, 1946-2010
Leaders and leadership changes are found to influence states' foreign policy decisions, in particular with respect to war and peace between states. Although this issue is also addressed in the qualitative literature on intrastate wars, the influence of leadership turnovers in civil war has received limited systematic attention. One reason for this is the scarcity of quantitative data on rebel group leaderships. To fill this gap, we present a comp…
Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific
Formal Commitments and States’ Interests
The world has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of interstate treaties and intergovernmental organizations in recent decades. While democratic major powers like the United States and Unit
The Policy Makers
Journal Article The Policy Makers: Shaping American Foreign Policy from 1947 to the Present by Anna Kasten Nelson Get access The Policy Makers: Shaping American Foreign Policy from 1947 to the Present by Anna Kasten Nelson. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. Carmela Lutmar Carmela Lutmar Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scien…
Growth, Trade, and Systemic Leadership
Pivotal Deterrence
Introducing a new dataset on leadership change in rebel groups, 1946-2010
Leaders and leadership changes are found to influence states' foreign policy decisions, in particular with respect to war and peace between states. Although this issue is also addressed in the qualitative literature on intrastate wars, the influence of leadership turnovers in civil war has received limited systematic attention. One reason for this is the scarcity of quantitative data on rebel group leaderships. To fill this gap, we present a comp…
Disaster diplomacy
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn worldwide attention to the difficulties inherent in managing disasters. Scholars across disciplines have been forced to consider the impact disasters have on interstate relations, state resilience, patterns of violence and hostility, and the vulnerabilities that condition conflict. This special issue offers new insights to help disentangle the relationship between disasters, conflict, and cooperation, by adhering t…
Masks Down
Natural disasters can create peaceful diplomatic interactions between conflicting parties, be they warring states or warring domestic factions. Advocates of “disaster diplomacy” argue that while events such as epidemics, earthquakes, floods, windstorms, and tsunamis result in human tragedies, they also generate opportunities for international cooperation, even between enemies. Conversely, natural disasters can also create rifts between friends an…
Birds of a feather vote together? EU and Arab League Unga Israel voting
UN General Assembly (UNGA) voting is non-binding, unlike voting in the Security Council (UNSC), yet is considered to reflect states’ interests. This article attempts to explore, compare, and explain patterns in UNGA voting of two regional organisations (ROs) on Israel-related resolutions, and/or issues that are of importance to Israel. Israel has been a unique case when it comes to the UN, which has shown pervasive hostility towards the Jewish st…
Formal Commitments and States’ Interests
The world has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of interstate treaties and intergovernmental organizations in recent decades. While democratic major powers like the United States and Unit
Oman’s Niche Diplomacy
Despite being located in one of the world’s most unstable regions—characterized by persistent tensions, turmoil, and conflict—the Sultanate of Oman has successfully maintained a policy of neutrality and adeptly assumed the complex role of mediator, both within the Arabian Peninsula and more broadly across the Middle East. This study examines Oman’s mediation efforts in the Middle East during the 21st century through the lens of niche diplomacy, p…
The Limits of China’s Sharp Power in Israel’s Academic and Media Discourse
The term ‘sharp power’ has become a widely used concept in international relations to describe external influence targeting democracies. China employs sharp power statecraft to shape public perceptions in target countries, aiming to alter opinions and behaviour, undermine political systems and create a favourable consensus by manipulating information. This study explores the nature and impact of China’s sharp power on the democratic resilience of…
Growth, Trade, and Systemic Leadership
Pivotal Deterrence
The Policy Makers
Journal Article The Policy Makers: Shaping American Foreign Policy from 1947 to the Present by Anna Kasten Nelson Get access The Policy Makers: Shaping American Foreign Policy from 1947 to the Present by Anna Kasten Nelson. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. Carmela Lutmar Carmela Lutmar Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scien…
Formal Commitments and States’ Interests
The world has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of interstate treaties and intergovernmental organizations in recent decades. While democratic major powers like the United States and Unit
Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific
Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific
Introducing a new dataset on leadership change in rebel groups, 1946-2010
Leaders and leadership changes are found to influence states' foreign policy decisions, in particular with respect to war and peace between states. Although this issue is also addressed in the qualitative literature on intrastate wars, the influence of leadership turnovers in civil war has received limited systematic attention. One reason for this is the scarcity of quantitative data on rebel group leaderships. To fill this gap, we present a comp…
Birds of a feather vote together? EU and Arab League Unga Israel voting
UN General Assembly (UNGA) voting is non-binding, unlike voting in the Security Council (UNSC), yet is considered to reflect states’ interests. This article attempts to explore, compare, and explain patterns in UNGA voting of two regional organisations (ROs) on Israel-related resolutions, and/or issues that are of importance to Israel. Israel has been a unique case when it comes to the UN, which has shown pervasive hostility towards the Jewish st…
Academic in-group bias in the top five economics journals
Suez Canal
Disaster diplomacy
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn worldwide attention to the difficulties inherent in managing disasters. Scholars across disciplines have been forced to consider the impact disasters have on interstate relations, state resilience, patterns of violence and hostility, and the vulnerabilities that condition conflict. This special issue offers new insights to help disentangle the relationship between disasters, conflict, and cooperation, by adhering t…
The Suez Canal
This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years
Masks Down
Natural disasters can create peaceful diplomatic interactions between conflicting parties, be they warring states or warring domestic factions. Advocates of “disaster diplomacy” argue that while events such as epidemics, earthquakes, floods, windstorms, and tsunamis result in human tragedies, they also generate opportunities for international cooperation, even between enemies. Conversely, natural disasters can also create rifts between friends an…
Kuwait’s Humanitarian and Mediation Efforts
Kuwait’s strategic integration of mediation and humanitarian aid has allowed the country to carve out a distinct identity as a regional and global middle power. By balancing these two pillars of its foreign policy, Kuwait has successfully navigated the intricacies of regional geopolitics, bolstering its diplomatic stature. The interaction between institutional continuity and individual agency is central to understanding how Kuwait has cultivated …
Qatar emerges as an authoritarian middle power through strategic specialization and defensive activism in the global system
This study investigates Qatar’s foreign policy through the conceptual lens of emerging middle power behavior, framing it as authoritarian niche diplomacy. Eschewing traditional metrics of power, Qatar has carved out strategic influence through functional specialization in mediation, sports, energy, humanitarian aid, and public diplomacy. Anchored in the logic of defensive activism, Doha transforms its structural vulnerabilities into assets by hed…
Give “peace through globalization” a chance
While the “peace through globalization” literature is primarily framed as an effort to examine whether economic globalization promotes peace, most of its models investigate whether trade reduces conflict. This study argues that by defining different stages in the transition to peace as a dependent variable, the relationship between a state’s exposure to globalization and peace is more complex than theorized in the literature. Even in our still-gl…
Oman’s Niche Diplomacy
Despite being located in one of the world’s most unstable regions—characterized by persistent tensions, turmoil, and conflict—the Sultanate of Oman has successfully maintained a policy of neutrality and adeptly assumed the complex role of mediator, both within the Arabian Peninsula and more broadly across the Middle East. This study examines Oman’s mediation efforts in the Middle East during the 21st century through the lens of niche diplomacy, p…
Trends in Political Science Research
The scholarship on charismatic leadership is interdisciplinary and rapidly evolving. This recent growth is accentuated in liberal democracies where populist parties have been enjoying increasing electoral success. We start this overview with basic definitions of charismatic leadership, then identify three main trends in the current scholarship. Following this, we highlight potential future research avenues and focuses that we believe still lack s…
The Limits of China’s Sharp Power in Israel’s Academic and Media Discourse
The term ‘sharp power’ has become a widely used concept in international relations to describe external influence targeting democracies. China employs sharp power statecraft to shape public perceptions in target countries, aiming to alter opinions and behaviour, undermine political systems and create a favourable consensus by manipulating information. This study explores the nature and impact of China’s sharp power on the democratic resilience of…
Explaining the Post‐October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan
Crafting and maintaining peace agreements is one of the most critical challenges in international relations and conflict resolution. Despite their initial promise, many such deals have failed, sparking renewed conflict and instability. This article argues that two primary factors influence the durability of these agreements: elite positions and interests reinforced by strong domestic institutions, and mediator involvement and guarantees. Through …
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Foreign policy (4 works) · International relations (4 works)