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1 ILAI Z. SALTZMAN Government Department International Relations Program Claremont McKenna College Kravis Center 245 (909) CURRENT POSITION Schusterman Visiting Israeli Assistant Professor of Government, Government Department, Claremont McKenna College PREVIOUS POSITIONS EDUCATION Adjunct Professor, Rothberg International School and the Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program (ISP), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Ph.D., University of Haifa, International Relations, 2010 Dissertation: To Balance or Not to Balance? Toward a Polymorphic Theory of Balancing (Supervisor: Benny Miller) MA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Relations, 2006 (magna cum laude) Thesis: On Indirect Balancing: Europe, the US and World Order in the 21 st Century (Supervisor: Korina Kagan) BA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Relations and General Studies, 2003 RESEARCH INTERESTS International Relations (IR) Theory; Security Studies, Neoclassical Realism; Grand Strategy, American Foreign Policy; Political Psychology; Sino American Relations; The Rise of China; Russian American Relations; European Defense and Security Architecture. 1

International School and the Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011 12 Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, 2010 11 Post

2 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Securitizing Balance of Power Theory: A Polymorphic Reconceptualization (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012) REFEREED ARTICLES Soft Balancing as Foreign Policy Strategy: Assessing American Policy toward Japan in the Interwar Period, Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 8, No. 2 (April 2012), pp The Empire Strikes Back? Russian Grand Strategy and the United States in the 21 st Century, Orbis, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Forthcoming, Fall 2012) Cyber Posturing and the Future of Realism: Offense Defense Balance in the Age of Information and Communication Technology, Contemporary Security Policy (Forthcoming, December 2012). The Gift of the Gods: the Effect of the Korean War on the Character of Modern Japan, Hayo Haya, Vol. 3 (Fall 2003), pp (in Hebrew) BOOK CHAPTERS External and Domestic Determinants of State Behavior, in Asle Toje and Barbara Kunz (eds.), Neoclassical Realism in Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), pp (Co authored with Barbara Kunz) Stalinism, in Michael T. Gibbons (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, Forthcoming 2012). SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS Cyber Posturing and the Future of Realism: Offense Defense Balance in the Age of Information and Communication Technology, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association of International Studies (IAIS), Hertzeliya, December Optimists, Pessimists or Skeptics: Explaining Variations in Post Cold War International and Regional Security, Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, Washington, September 2011 (Co authored with Benny Miller) Optimists, Pessimists or Skeptics: Who Was Right in the Great Debate on the post Cold War International Order, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the World International Studies Committee (WISC), Porto, August (Co authored with Benny Miller) 2

Russian Grand Strategy and the United States in the 21 st Century, Orbis, Vol. 56, No.

3 US Sanctions on Japan in the Interwar Period: Governance or Anarchy? Soft Balancing or Soft Moralizing? Presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting, Montréal, March (Co authored with David Wilkinson) Expecting the Worst, Hoping for the Best? Stalin s Grand Strategy in the Interwar Period, Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington DC, September 2 5, The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Soft Balancing: Assessing American Policy toward Japan in the Interwar Period, Presented at the 51 st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), New Orleans, LA, February 17 20, Realism and the Role of the Decision Maker: What Are the Assumptions? Presented at the Realism and Foreign Policy Theory Workshop, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 12 13, The Empire Strikes Back: Russian Grand Strategy and the United States in the 21 st Century, A Paper Presented at the Ninth International CISS Millennium Conference, Potsdam, Germany, June 13 15, Towards A Polymorphic Theory of Balancing, A Paper Presented at the 3rd Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 17, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? American Foreign Policy towards Japan in the Interwar Period, A Paper Presented at the 70 Years for the Sino Japanese War ( ): The Conflict that Changed East Asia Conference, University of Haifa, November 13, Revolution in International Affairs or Business as Usual? American Hegemony, International Security and World Order in the 21 st Century, A Paper Presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, University of Haifa, December 26, Middle East 2020: Shaping Alternative Visions, A Paper Presented at the 3 rd Miami Transatlantic Citizens Week, University of Miami, April 6, 2006 (with Nimrod Goren). Historical Analogies in War Initiation: David Ben Gurion and the Suez War of 1956, A Paper Presented at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, April 8 9, WORK IN PROGRESS An Intermestic Interactive Neoclassical Realist Model of Strategic Calculation: The Case of Soviet Grand Strategy in the Interwar Period More than a Feeling: Emotions as Determinants of Framing Effect 3

Stalin s Grand Strategy in the Interwar Period, Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington DC, September 2 5, 2010.

4 Towards a Polymorphic Approach to Balancing: The Case for Balance of Security Theory Expansion and Coexistence with ʹChinese Characteristicsʹ? The Historical Sources of China s Grand Strategy Playing for Keeps? The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance and American post Cold War Grand Strategy OTHER PUBLICATIONS ʺThe Brain Drain We Donʹt Hear About,ʺ Haʹaretz, May 13, ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor: Comparative Grand Strategy and Tactics (undergraduate course), Hebrew University, Introduction to IR (undergraduate course), Hebrew University, Sino American Relations (undergraduate course), Tel Aviv University, Teaching Assistantships: IR Research Methods, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Instructor: Eytan Myers) Introduction to IR Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Instructors: Arie M. Kacowicz and Galia Press Barnathan) IR History since 1945, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Instructor: Moshe Abalo) Theories of International Security, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Instructor: Korina Kagan) FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Israel Science Foundation, Research Grant (with Benjamin Miller Principle Investigator, 25,000$), 2011 Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, (declined) 4

The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance and American post Cold War Grand Strategy OTHER PUBLICATIONS ʺThe Brain Drain We Donʹt Hear About,ʺ Haʹaretz, May 13, 2010.

5 Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Ph.D. Candidates Excellence Scholarship, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa, Departmental Grant for Academic Excellence, IR Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004 Departmental Grant for Academic Excellence, IR Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003 FOREIGN LANGUAGES Hebrew excellent speaking, writing and reading (mother tongue) English excellent speaking, writing and reading Spanish excellent speaking and moderate reading (mother tongue) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Political Science Association (APSA) International Studies Association (ISA) The Israeli Association of International Studies (IAIS) 5

Departmental Grant for Academic Excellence, IR Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003 FOREIGN LANGUAGES Hebrew excellent speaking, writing and reading (mother tongue) English excellent

Assistant Professor, Political Science, George Washington University, beginning August 2013.

Yonatan Lupu Princeton University Robertson Hall, Room 447A Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: (703) 725-6588 ylupu@gwu.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/ ylupu/ Academic Positions Assistant Professor, Political Science,