Ilan Zvi Baron
Biographic Data
| ID | 87633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilan Zvi Baron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilan Zvi |
| FAMILY NAME | Baron |
| SIGNATURE | BARON I Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9808-2109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement
This article explores how fake news, variously described as misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and post-truth threatens our pluralistic democratic life. We ask, how does fake news function in constructing a world of meaning that destabilises the conditions under which we are able to render valid political judgements in democratic life? Using the 1992 R v Zundel Supreme Court Case from Canada to explore the free speech question, and H…
Disruptive technology and regulatory conundrums: The emerging governance of virtual currencies
Regulatory agencies care about their reputation, which helps sustain their authority. As innovation can introduce uncertainty in governance, delaying action or overlooking danger can negatively affect agencies' standing. Aware of these reputation risks, agencies rely on a set of methods to govern the unknown. These methods, we argue, are: (1) categorization, if the innovation is considered identical to known regulatory categories; (2) analogy, if…
Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism
The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied, yet central component of everyday international relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through gastronomy, and highlight the dilemma between the different political uses of popular culture in the context of conflict resolution and resistance. Our argument identifies different narratives represen…
Flipping the Academic Conference, or How We Wrote a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article in a Day
Is it possible to write a publishable, peer-reviewed academic paper in a day? We attempted this task in 2016, motivated by a desire to find new ways of doing academic work in the face of our growing sense of alienation within the neoliberal academy. This article provides our analysis of academic alienation and an auto-ethnography of our experiment. We discuss four lessons learned: (1) knowledge as a social relation, (2) time and the academy, (3) …
Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel
Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence
While international relations scholars make many claims about violence, they rarely define the concept. This article develops a typology of three distinct kinds of violence: direct, indirect, and pacification. Direct violence occurs when a person or agent inflicts harm on another. Indirect violence manifests through the structures of society. We propose a third understanding of violence: pacification. Using a phenomenological methodology, and dra…
Falsifiability, the politics of evidence, and the importance of narratives
This article addresses the rise of alternative facts and fake news in politics, and highlights why scholars of security should be concerned with them.The article explains how the scientific method itself has contributed to the conditions in which facts are easily undermined and argues that we need to recognize the role that narratives play in how we interpret and engage with this world
The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel
This article explores a question that is often assumed but rarely addressed: What does Israel provide ideationally for Diaspora Jews that serves as the basis for Diaspora/Israel relations and justifies the importance of Israel for Jewish identity? Whereas past literature on this topic has either assumed an answer to this question or debated survey results and demographics, this article takes a different approach by not assuming an answer to this …
Response to Daniel Monterescu's review of Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Eating Jerusalem: Politics, Food and Identity
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
On sovereignty and other political delusions
Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique
Questions arose about what it meant to support a country whose political future the author has no say in as a Diaspora Jew. The questions became all the more pronounced the more I learned about Israel’s history. Many Jews feel the same way, and often are uncomfortable with what such an obligation can mean, in no small part because of concerns over being identified with Israel because of one’s Jewish heritage or because of the overwhelming signifi…
Jews: The making of a diaspora people
IR has not, is not and will not take place
Why Occupy a Square: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution
On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary moment? How did the protests come about? How were they able to outmanoeuvre the police? Was this really a “leaderless revolution”, as so many pund…
Diasporic Security and Jewish Identity
This paper explores the relationship between identity and security through an investigation into Jewish diasporic identity. The paper argues that the convention of treating identity as an objective referent of security is problematic, as the Jewish diaspora experience demonstrates. The paper presents a new way of conceptualizing identity and security by introducing the concept of diasporic security. Diasporic security reflects the geographical ex…
The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries
This article is concerned with addressing the following hypothesis, originally presented in Millennium in 2001: International Relations theory does not influence other academic fields to the extent that it suggests that it should. This claim is re-examined in light of the growth of IR over the past decade. Using a variety of evidence, including a close examination of the Social Sciences Citation Index, I conclude that IR (still) does not have muc…
Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel Julia Ochs Philadelphia and Oxford, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 In Security and Suspicion, Juliana Ochs provides a rich ...
Dying for the state: The missing just war question
This article introduces the problem of having to risk one's life for the state in war, asking first why this question is no longer asked in the just war literature and then suggesting five issues that relate to this question: 1) that of individual consent, 2) whether or not any state can be justified in obliging its citizens in this regard and whether or not the type of government is important, 3) whether or not the problem of the obligation diff…
The Problem of Dual Loyalty
Dual loyalty arises when a citizen or group of citizens holds political allegiance to another state or entity which could challenge their loyalty to the state. What defines dual loyalty as an accusation is the assumption that it is impossible to hold multiple political loyalties, but that, simultaneously, this multiplicity is denied any validity. This article explores the concept, locating it historically and locating the false and often racist d…
Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence
While international relations scholars make many claims about violence, they rarely define the concept. This article develops a typology of three distinct kinds of violence: direct, indirect, and pacification. Direct violence occurs when a person or agent inflicts harm on another. Indirect violence manifests through the structures of society. We propose a third understanding of violence: pacification. Using a phenomenological methodology, and dra…
The Problem of Dual Loyalty
Dual loyalty arises when a citizen or group of citizens holds political allegiance to another state or entity which could challenge their loyalty to the state. What defines dual loyalty as an accusation is the assumption that it is impossible to hold multiple political loyalties, but that, simultaneously, this multiplicity is denied any validity. This article explores the concept, locating it historically and locating the false and often racist d…
Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel Julia Ochs Philadelphia and Oxford, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 In Security and Suspicion, Juliana Ochs provides a rich ...
The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries
This article is concerned with addressing the following hypothesis, originally presented in Millennium in 2001: International Relations theory does not influence other academic fields to the extent that it suggests that it should. This claim is re-examined in light of the growth of IR over the past decade. Using a variety of evidence, including a close examination of the Social Sciences Citation Index, I conclude that IR (still) does not have muc…
Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism
The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied, yet central component of everyday international relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through gastronomy, and highlight the dilemma between the different political uses of popular culture in the context of conflict resolution and resistance. Our argument identifies different narratives represen…
Diasporic Security and Jewish Identity
This paper explores the relationship between identity and security through an investigation into Jewish diasporic identity. The paper argues that the convention of treating identity as an objective referent of security is problematic, as the Jewish diaspora experience demonstrates. The paper presents a new way of conceptualizing identity and security by introducing the concept of diasporic security. Diasporic security reflects the geographical ex…
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement
This article explores how fake news, variously described as misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and post-truth threatens our pluralistic democratic life. We ask, how does fake news function in constructing a world of meaning that destabilises the conditions under which we are able to render valid political judgements in democratic life? Using the 1992 R v Zundel Supreme Court Case from Canada to explore the free speech question, and H…
Disruptive technology and regulatory conundrums: The emerging governance of virtual currencies
Regulatory agencies care about their reputation, which helps sustain their authority. As innovation can introduce uncertainty in governance, delaying action or overlooking danger can negatively affect agencies' standing. Aware of these reputation risks, agencies rely on a set of methods to govern the unknown. These methods, we argue, are: (1) categorization, if the innovation is considered identical to known regulatory categories; (2) analogy, if…
Flipping the Academic Conference, or How We Wrote a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article in a Day
Is it possible to write a publishable, peer-reviewed academic paper in a day? We attempted this task in 2016, motivated by a desire to find new ways of doing academic work in the face of our growing sense of alienation within the neoliberal academy. This article provides our analysis of academic alienation and an auto-ethnography of our experiment. We discuss four lessons learned: (1) knowledge as a social relation, (2) time and the academy, (3) …
The Problem of Dual Loyalty
Dual loyalty arises when a citizen or group of citizens holds political allegiance to another state or entity which could challenge their loyalty to the state. What defines dual loyalty as an accusation is the assumption that it is impossible to hold multiple political loyalties, but that, simultaneously, this multiplicity is denied any validity. This article explores the concept, locating it historically and locating the false and often racist d…
Dying for the state: The missing just war question
This article introduces the problem of having to risk one's life for the state in war, asking first why this question is no longer asked in the just war literature and then suggesting five issues that relate to this question: 1) that of individual consent, 2) whether or not any state can be justified in obliging its citizens in this regard and whether or not the type of government is important, 3) whether or not the problem of the obligation diff…
Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel Julia Ochs Philadelphia and Oxford, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 In Security and Suspicion, Juliana Ochs provides a rich ...
Why Occupy a Square: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution
On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary moment? How did the protests come about? How were they able to outmanoeuvre the police? Was this really a “leaderless revolution”, as so many pund…
Diasporic Security and Jewish Identity
This paper explores the relationship between identity and security through an investigation into Jewish diasporic identity. The paper argues that the convention of treating identity as an objective referent of security is problematic, as the Jewish diaspora experience demonstrates. The paper presents a new way of conceptualizing identity and security by introducing the concept of diasporic security. Diasporic security reflects the geographical ex…
The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries
This article is concerned with addressing the following hypothesis, originally presented in Millennium in 2001: International Relations theory does not influence other academic fields to the extent that it suggests that it should. This claim is re-examined in light of the growth of IR over the past decade. Using a variety of evidence, including a close examination of the Social Sciences Citation Index, I conclude that IR (still) does not have muc…
Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique
Questions arose about what it meant to support a country whose political future the author has no say in as a Diaspora Jew. The questions became all the more pronounced the more I learned about Israel’s history. Many Jews feel the same way, and often are uncomfortable with what such an obligation can mean, in no small part because of concerns over being identified with Israel because of one’s Jewish heritage or because of the overwhelming signifi…
Jews: The making of a diaspora people
IR has not, is not and will not take place
Eating Jerusalem: Politics, Food and Identity
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
On sovereignty and other political delusions
The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel
This article explores a question that is often assumed but rarely addressed: What does Israel provide ideationally for Diaspora Jews that serves as the basis for Diaspora/Israel relations and justifies the importance of Israel for Jewish identity? Whereas past literature on this topic has either assumed an answer to this question or debated survey results and demographics, this article takes a different approach by not assuming an answer to this …
Response to Daniel Monterescu's review of Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel
Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence
While international relations scholars make many claims about violence, they rarely define the concept. This article develops a typology of three distinct kinds of violence: direct, indirect, and pacification. Direct violence occurs when a person or agent inflicts harm on another. Indirect violence manifests through the structures of society. We propose a third understanding of violence: pacification. Using a phenomenological methodology, and dra…
Falsifiability, the politics of evidence, and the importance of narratives
This article addresses the rise of alternative facts and fake news in politics, and highlights why scholars of security should be concerned with them.The article explains how the scientific method itself has contributed to the conditions in which facts are easily undermined and argues that we need to recognize the role that narratives play in how we interpret and engage with this world
Flipping the Academic Conference, or How We Wrote a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article in a Day
Is it possible to write a publishable, peer-reviewed academic paper in a day? We attempted this task in 2016, motivated by a desire to find new ways of doing academic work in the face of our growing sense of alienation within the neoliberal academy. This article provides our analysis of academic alienation and an auto-ethnography of our experiment. We discuss four lessons learned: (1) knowledge as a social relation, (2) time and the academy, (3) …
Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism
The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied, yet central component of everyday international relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through gastronomy, and highlight the dilemma between the different political uses of popular culture in the context of conflict resolution and resistance. Our argument identifies different narratives represen…
Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement
This article explores how fake news, variously described as misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and post-truth threatens our pluralistic democratic life. We ask, how does fake news function in constructing a world of meaning that destabilises the conditions under which we are able to render valid political judgements in democratic life? Using the 1992 R v Zundel Supreme Court Case from Canada to explore the free speech question, and H…
Disruptive technology and regulatory conundrums: The emerging governance of virtual currencies
Regulatory agencies care about their reputation, which helps sustain their authority. As innovation can introduce uncertainty in governance, delaying action or overlooking danger can negatively affect agencies' standing. Aware of these reputation risks, agencies rely on a set of methods to govern the unknown. These methods, we argue, are: (1) categorization, if the innovation is considered identical to known regulatory categories; (2) analogy, if…
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