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Yael S. Aronoff is the Michael and Elaine Serling and Friends Chair of Israel Studies at James Madison College. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 2001. She also holds an M.I.A. in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (1992), and a B.A. in international relations from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy (1990). She has taught in the Government Department at Hamilton College, and has served as Assistant for Regional Humanitarian Programs in the Pentagon's Office of Humanitarian and Refugee Affairs and in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. She most recently was Senior Associate at Columbia University’s Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Dr. Aronoff is finishing her book manuscript, entitled When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace: The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers. The project falls under the general heading of the political psychology of war and peace. Its particular focus is on the conditions under which hard-line political leaders become peacemakers. In her most recent publication she analyzes a soft-liner becoming hard-line towards the Soviet “In Like A Lamb, Out Like A Lion: The Political Conversion of Jimmy Carter,” Political Science Quarterly 121:3, Fall 2006.
In the 2006-2007 academic year Yael Aronoff is teaching MC220 “International Relations I: World Politics and International Security,” MC 325 “State and Society in Comparative Perspective,” MC 390 “Special Topics: Israeli Politics and Society,” MC 326 “American Foreign Policy: Theory, Pattern and Process.” Dr. Aronoff’s teaching interests include Israeli politics and foreign policy, U.S. foreign policy, international relations, Israeli society and culture, conflict and cooperation among Israelis and Palestinians, and conditions for war termination
Yael Aronoff published an article entitled “From Hawks to Peacemakers: A Comparison of Two Israeli Prime Ministers,” forthcoming in Israel Studies Forum 24:1, summer 2009. She reviewed the book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges, forthcoming in Peace and Change. She presented a paper entitled, “Predicting Peace: The Domestic Contingencies for Reaching an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement,” by invitation to the “Democracy, Religion, and Conflict: the Dilemmas of Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking” Conference and panels to a broader audience as well as workshops to prepare papers for edited book, sponsored by the Project on Democracy in the Middle East, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School at Syracuse University, March 26-27, 2009.
Professor Aronoff wrote a book review of "Anti-Americanisms in World Politics", eds. Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert Keohane, for Political Science Quarterly, spring 2008. She presented a paper, "Pursuing Peace to Achieve Security," and participated in a roundtable discussion, "Arabs and Israelis after Annapolis: Is the Peace Process Headed Anywhere?," at the American Political Science Association, August, 2008.Professor Aronoff presented a paper, "Predicting Peace: IR Theory and the Annapolis Peace Process," at the Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting, New York, May, 2008.
Dr. Aronoff is finishing her book manuscript, entitled When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace: The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers. The project falls under the general heading of the political psychology of war and peace. Its particular focus is on the conditions under which hard-line political leaders become peacemakers.
Published "In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion: The Political Conversion of Jimmy Carter," Politial Science Quarterly (Fall 2006): 425-449.
