Dr. Eldad Ben Aharon

Senior Researcher

Dr. Eldad Ben Aharon ist Senior Researcher im Programm­bereich Glokale Verflechtungen und leitet das DFG-Projekt „Jüdische Außenpolitik und der Exodus der syrischen Jüdinnen und Juden: Zionismus, Migration und die Diaspora“. Zu seinen Forschungs­schwer­punkten gehören Sicher­heit und Erinnerung, Trans­nationalismus, Ver­sicher­heit­lichung, außen­politische Analysen, öffent­liche und digitale Diplo­matie sowie Eliten­interviews.

CV

| seit 2024
Senior Researcher am PRIF

| seit 2023
Irish Research Council (IRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow in Inter­national Security an der Dublin City University

| seit 2022
Visiting Fellow am Inter­national Centre for Policing & Security (ICPS) an der University of South Wales

| 2021–2022
Dozent am Depart­ment of Middle Eastern Studies an der University of Groningen, Niederlande

| 2021–2024
Assozi­ierter Forscher am PRIF (bis 2023 HSFK)

| 2019–2021
Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow am PRIF

| 2019–2021
Dozent an der Universität Leiden, Institut für Regional­studien (LIAS)

| 2018–2019
Gastwissen­schaftler an der Universität Leiden, Institut für Regional­studien (LIAS)

| 2015–2019
Promotion (Dr. Phil.) in Geschichte, Royal Holloway, University of London, Holocaust Research Institute and the Department of History

| 2012–2014
Master of Arts in Neuester Geschichte, University of Amsterdam (UvA) und NIOD Institut für Kriegs-, Holocaust- und Genozid­studien

| 2007–2011
Bachelor in Geistes- und Sozial­wissen­schaften mit Speziali­sierung auf Inter­nationale Beziehungen, Open University of Israel

Publikationen

  • Profiles in intelligence: an interview with the 17th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon
    | 2024
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2024): Profiles in intelligence: an interview with the 17th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon, Intelligence and National Security, 1–20. DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2024.2422135
  • Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Reflection on Regional Security and Diplomacy
    | 2024
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2024): Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Reflection on Regional Security and Diplomacy, Journal of Genocide Research. DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2024.2406100
  • Political audience and non-linear securitization: Revisiting Israel–Iran relations and the making of the 1979 Islamic Revolution
    | 2023
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Political audience and non-linear securitization: Revisiting Israel–Iran relations and the making of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, European Journal of International Security, 1–25. DOI: 10.1017/eis.2023.26
  • Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy
    | 2022
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2022): Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy, Intelligence and National Security. DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2022.2095600
  • The “War on Terror” and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War: Israeli–Turkish Relations and the 1980 Military Coup
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): The “War on Terror” and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War: Israeli–Turkish Relations and the 1980 Military Coup, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1997134
  • Recognition of the Armenian Genocide after its Centenary: A Comparative Analysis of Changing Parliamentary Positions
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Recognition of the Armenian Genocide after its Centenary: A Comparative Analysis of Changing Parliamentary Positions, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs. DOI: 10.1080/23739770.2019.1737911
  • Doing Oral History with the Israeli Elite and the Question of Methodology in International Relations Research
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Doing Oral History with the Israeli Elite and the Question of Methodology in International Relations Research, The Oral History Review, 47: 1, 1–23. DOI: 10.1080/00940798.2019.1702467
  • Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide
    | 2019
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide. (Hebrew), Mitvim: The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, 1–15.
    Zur Publikation
  • Review, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009, Fatma Müge Göçek
    | 2018
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2018): Review, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009, Fatma Müge Göçek, Journal of Social History, 51: 3, 656-659.
    Zur Publikation
  • Superpower by Invitation
    | 2018
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2018): Superpower by Invitation. Late Cold War diplomacy and leveraging Armenian terrorism as a means to rapprochement in Israeli-Turkish relations (1980–1987), Cold War History, 19: 2, 275–293. DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2018.1483342
  • Review, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
    | 2017
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2017): Review, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, Patterns of Prejudice, 51: 2, 211-213.
    Zur Publikation
  • Between Ankara and Jerusalem
    | 2017
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2017): Between Ankara and Jerusalem. The Armenian Genocide as a Zero-Sum Game in Israel's Foreign Policy (1980’s -2010’s), Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 20: 5, 459–476. DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385932
  • Review, Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide, Laura Marchand & Guillaume Perrier
    | 2016
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2016): Review, Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide, Laura Marchand & Guillaume Perrier, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 22: 4.
    Zur Publikation
  • Review, They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide, Ronald Grigor Suny
    | 2016
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2016): Review, They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide, Ronald Grigor Suny, H-Soz-Kult, 1-3.
    Zur Publikation
  • A Unique Denial: Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide
    | 2015
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2015): A Unique Denial: Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 42: 4, 638–654. DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2015.1043514

  • Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Failure: The Armenian Genocide Bill in Israel’s Political Arena
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Failure: The Armenian Genocide Bill in Israel’s Political Arena, in: B. Der Matossian (eds), Denial of Genocides in the 21st Century, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (im Erscheinen).
  • Restorative Justice and the Diplomacy of Closure
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Restorative Justice and the Diplomacy of Closure. The Israeli Policy on the Armenian Genocide and the Geopolitics of Memory (1980s-2010s), in: C. d. Gamboa/B. van Roermund (eds), Just Memories. Remembrance and Restoration in the Aftermath of Political Violence, Cambridge UK: Intersentia Press, 313-336.
    Zur Publikation

  • Outlook on German-Israeli Relations
    | 2023
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Outlook on German-Israeli Relations. German Staatsraison and Netanyahu‘s Coalition Contentious ‚Judicial Reform‘, PRIF Spotlight, 6, Frankfurt/M. DOI: 10.48809/prifspot0623
  • Why Israel Backs Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: It’s Not About Armenia
    | 2023
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Why Israel Backs Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: It’s Not About Armenia, PRIF Blog.
    Zur Publikation
  • Between Geopolitics and Identity Struggle: Why Israel Took Sides with Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
    | 2023
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2023): Between Geopolitics and Identity Struggle: Why Israel Took Sides with Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, PRIF Report, 1, Frankfurt/M. DOI: 10.48809/prifrep2301
    ISBN: 978-3-946459-84-2
  • The Capitol Rioters and their Supporters Beyond “Us vs. Them”: A View from outside the US
    | 2021
    Pfeifer, Hanna; Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): The Capitol Rioters and their Supporters Beyond “Us vs. Them”: A View from outside the US, PRIF Blog.
    Zur Publikation
  • Review, Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone, Uri Bialer, Diplomacy & Statecraft
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Review, Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone, Uri Bialer, Diplomacy & Statecraft.
  • Review, Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies, Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky, Diplomacy & Statecraft
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Review, Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies, Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky, Diplomacy & Statecraft.
  • Why Won't Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide? It's Not Just About Turkey
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Why Won't Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide? It's Not Just About Turkey, Haaretz.
    Zur Publikation
  • Carter's Holocaust Commission Should Inspire Biden on Armenian Genocide
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Carter's Holocaust Commission Should Inspire Biden on Armenian Genocide, Newsweek.
    Zur Publikation
  • Armenian Genocide: US Recognition of Turkey’s Killing of 1.5 Million Was Tangled up In Decades of Geopolitics
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Armenian Genocide: US Recognition of Turkey’s Killing of 1.5 Million Was Tangled up In Decades of Geopolitics, The Conversation.
    Zur Publikation
  • Erdogan’s Take on the Holocaust Is Cynical, Selective and Self-Serving
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): Erdogan’s Take on the Holocaust Is Cynical, Selective and Self-Serving, Haaretz.
    Zur Publikation
  • At the Age of the Pandemic: The Global Memory of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide at a Crossroads
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): At the Age of the Pandemic: The Global Memory of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide at a Crossroads, PRIF Blog.
    Zur Publikation
  • ארדואן מגייס את השואה כדי "להקפיץ" את האירופאים ונכשל
    | 2021
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2021): ארדואן מגייס את השואה כדי "להקפיץ" את האירופאים ונכשל, זמן תל אביב.
    Zur Publikation
  • Erdogan’s Comparison of Islamophobia, Antisemitism Doesn't Work
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Erdogan’s Comparison of Islamophobia, Antisemitism Doesn't Work, Jerusalem Post.
    Zur Publikation
  • How Do We Remember the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust?
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): How Do We Remember the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust?. A Global View of an Integrated Memory of Perpetrators, Victims and Third–Party Countries, PRIF Report, 6, Frankfurt/M.
  • Disunited by Genocide: How Armenia’s Relations with Israel Have Come to a Dead End
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Disunited by Genocide: How Armenia’s Relations with Israel Have Come to a Dead End, Haaretz.
    Zur Publikation
  • 'מדיניות החוץ של טורקיה ושימוש מופרז במושג 'לוחמה בטרור
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): 'מדיניות החוץ של טורקיה ושימוש מופרז במושג 'לוחמה בטרור, זמן ישראל.
    Zur Publikation
  • ‘Counter-Terrorism’ in Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Old Wine in a New Bottle?
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): ‘Counter-Terrorism’ in Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Old Wine in a New Bottle?, Jerusalem Post.
    Zur Publikation
  • Long-Distance Israeli Nationalism and ‘Crime Minister’ Netanyahu
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Long-Distance Israeli Nationalism and ‘Crime Minister’ Netanyahu, Jerusalem Post.
    Zur Publikation
  • ?הפזורה‘ הישראלית: טרנד חולף או כאן כדי להשאר'
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): ?הפזורה‘ הישראלית: טרנד חולף או כאן כדי להשאר', זמן תל אביב.
    Zur Publikation
  • Israeli Archives Censorship Regulations and Oral History
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Israeli Archives Censorship Regulations and Oral History, Jerusalem Post.
    Zur Publikation
  • Armenian Genocide: Looking Back at the 40 Years It Took for Congress to Acknowledge It
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Armenian Genocide: Looking Back at the 40 Years It Took for Congress to Acknowledge It, The National Interest.
    Zur Publikation
  • Author Interview: Eldad Ben Aharon on the Use of Oral History in the Study of International Relations
    | 2020
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2020): Author Interview: Eldad Ben Aharon on the Use of Oral History in the Study of International Relations, the American Oral History Association.
    Zur Publikation
  • Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide
    | 2019
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide, in: Mitvim: The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, [Hebrew] (eds).
    Zur Publikation
  • הקונגרס האמריקאי הכיר סוף סוף ברצח העם הארמני. עכשיו תור ישראל
    | 2019
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): הקונגרס האמריקאי הכיר סוף סוף ברצח העם הארמני. עכשיו תור ישראל, שיחה מקומית.
    Zur Publikation
  • הכרה ברצח העם הארמני היא הכרה באוניברסליות של השואה
    | 2019
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2019): הכרה ברצח העם הארמני היא הכרה באוניברסליות של השואה, שיחה מקומית.
  • Interview with Eldad Ben Aharon about MA programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the University of Amsterdam
    | 2013
    Ben Aharon, Eldad (2013): Interview with Eldad Ben Aharon about MA programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the University of Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam.
    Zur Publikation

Weitere Tätigkeiten

| 2019–2021
Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow am PRIF

| 2017–2019
Global Excellence Scholarship for Armenian Studies, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation