Journal Articles by Mira Sucharov
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2014
Mira Sucharov and Brent Sasley
Drawing on our research and blogging on Israel and the Israeli-... more Mira Sucharov and Brent Sasley
Drawing on our research and blogging on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we make three claims about the role of scholar-bloggers in the social media age. First, as scholar-bloggers with some degree of ethno-national attachments related to our area of expertise, we contend that we are well positioned to issue the kinds of critiques that may resonate more deeply due to the very subjectivity that some perceive as a liability. Second, through the melding of scholarly arguments with popular writing forms, scholar-bloggers are uniquely poised to be at the forefront of public engagement and political literacy both with social media publics and with students. Third, the subjectivity hazard is an intrinsic part of any type of research and writing, whether that writing is aimed at a scholarly audience or any other, and should not be used as an argument against academic involvement in social media. Ultimately, subjectivities of both consumers and producers can evolve through these highly interactive media, a dynamic that deserves further examination.
Journal of Political Science Education, 2012
Neil Caplan, Wendy Pearlman, Brent Sasley, and Mira Sucharov
The Arab-Israeli conflict can be ... more Neil Caplan, Wendy Pearlman, Brent Sasley, and Mira Sucharov
The Arab-Israeli conflict can be a difficult topic to teach, for a variety of reasons. As such, this article represents a conversation by four scholar-teachers of the Middle East and the conflict about our approaches to teaching it. We discuss our motivations for the manner in which we teach the conflict and some of the specific tools we use to do so, including the use of history, role-playing and simulations, emphasis on narratives, and active learning instruments (such as movies and music). We also engage with each other, interspersing our own suggestions and reactions to each other's discussion. By doing so, we aim to provide an open atmosphere for others to consider how we teach the conflict, in the hopes of better understanding it.
International Journal, 2011
Brent Sasley and Mira Sucharov
The most likely solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a... more Brent Sasley and Mira Sucharov
The most likely solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a two-state solution, will entail the relocation of thousands of Israeli settlers out of the West Bank. This article starts from the premise that material incentives will be only part of the solution to how Israel will manage the movement of the settlers. An equally important set of inducements will involve identity and symbols. The article outlines three ways that the Israeli government can address the identity needs of the West Bank settlers in a post-peace scenario: by emphasizing the history of place, encouraging the frontier Zionist spirit, and recasting the public-private spatial divide. Countries interested in promoting a final peace, and in particular the Obama administration, accordingly, will have to consider shifting its policy discourse from focusing only on a settlement freeze, to helping both sides deal with the identity needs of their various domestic populations.
Non-Traditional Scholarly Writing by Mira Sucharov
Brent Sasley and Mira Sucharov, LSE The Impact Blog, August 18, 2014.
Papers by Mira Sucharov
Borders and Belonging: A Memoir, 2020
Borders and Belonging: A Memoir, 2020
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) collects and publishes data on traffic volume and... more The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) collects and publishes data on traffic volume and road accidents with casualties on non-urban roads. Through the course of 2012, the ICBS GIS sector initiated new ways to present transportation data on non-urban roads – maps on a national scale, showing specific related topics. Throughout the process the databases were reviewed and adapted to enable mapping, resulting in a series of maps describing the geospatial aspects of transportation information. New methods for analyzing data for mapping purposes were introduced and implemented, setting primacy for other possible projects. Key Categories National Mapping, State and Local Government, Transportation.
International Politics Reviews, 2015
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2013
Drawing on our research and blogging on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we make thre... more Drawing on our research and blogging on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we make three claims about the role of scholar-bloggers in the social media age. First, as scholar-bloggers with some degree of ethno-national attachments related to our area of expertise, we contend that we are well positioned to issue the kinds of critiques that may resonate more deeply due to the very subjectivity that some perceive as a liability. Second, through the melding of scholarly arguments with popular writing forms, scholar-bloggers are uniquely poised to be at the forefront of public engagement and political literacy both with social media publics and with students. Third, the subjectivity hazard is an intrinsic part of any type of research and writing, whether that writing is aimed at a scholarly audience or any other, and should not be used as an argument against academic involvement in social media. Ultimately, subjectivities of both consumers and producers can evolve through these ...
Journal of Political Science Education, 2012
International Studies Perspectives, 2010
... and Sucharov, Mira. "Collective Identity and Cognitive Confusion: Israeli Settlement Pol... more ... and Sucharov, Mira. "Collective Identity and Cognitive Confusion: Israeli Settlement Policies and the Fluid Frontier" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners, New Orleans Hilton Riverside Hotel, The Loews New ...
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Armed forces and society, 2005
The rise to the fore of realist ontologies in international relations has meant that ethical issu... more The rise to the fore of realist ontologies in international relations has meant that ethical issues have been associated more with evaluation than explanation. Yet ignoring the constitutive role of morality and ethics in structuring security policy choices leaves us without a complete understanding of the causes and consequences of international behavior. Accordingly, this article seeks to transplant the role of ethics from the realm of evaluative to empirical theory by introducing the idea of a security ethic, referring to the state’s—and by extension the military’s—normative attitudes toward the use of organized violence, including under what circumstances it is ethically permissible to use force at all, and the manner in which force can be justly employed in a given military operation. The article develops this framework by reference to the historical security outlook of the Israel Defense Forces.
Borders and Belonging: A Memoir
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Journal Articles by Mira Sucharov
Drawing on our research and blogging on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we make three claims about the role of scholar-bloggers in the social media age. First, as scholar-bloggers with some degree of ethno-national attachments related to our area of expertise, we contend that we are well positioned to issue the kinds of critiques that may resonate more deeply due to the very subjectivity that some perceive as a liability. Second, through the melding of scholarly arguments with popular writing forms, scholar-bloggers are uniquely poised to be at the forefront of public engagement and political literacy both with social media publics and with students. Third, the subjectivity hazard is an intrinsic part of any type of research and writing, whether that writing is aimed at a scholarly audience or any other, and should not be used as an argument against academic involvement in social media. Ultimately, subjectivities of both consumers and producers can evolve through these highly interactive media, a dynamic that deserves further examination.
The Arab-Israeli conflict can be a difficult topic to teach, for a variety of reasons. As such, this article represents a conversation by four scholar-teachers of the Middle East and the conflict about our approaches to teaching it. We discuss our motivations for the manner in which we teach the conflict and some of the specific tools we use to do so, including the use of history, role-playing and simulations, emphasis on narratives, and active learning instruments (such as movies and music). We also engage with each other, interspersing our own suggestions and reactions to each other's discussion. By doing so, we aim to provide an open atmosphere for others to consider how we teach the conflict, in the hopes of better understanding it.
The most likely solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a two-state solution, will entail the relocation of thousands of Israeli settlers out of the West Bank. This article starts from the premise that material incentives will be only part of the solution to how Israel will manage the movement of the settlers. An equally important set of inducements will involve identity and symbols. The article outlines three ways that the Israeli government can address the identity needs of the West Bank settlers in a post-peace scenario: by emphasizing the history of place, encouraging the frontier Zionist spirit, and recasting the public-private spatial divide. Countries interested in promoting a final peace, and in particular the Obama administration, accordingly, will have to consider shifting its policy discourse from focusing only on a settlement freeze, to helping both sides deal with the identity needs of their various domestic populations.
Non-Traditional Scholarly Writing by Mira Sucharov
Papers by Mira Sucharov
Drawing on our research and blogging on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we make three claims about the role of scholar-bloggers in the social media age. First, as scholar-bloggers with some degree of ethno-national attachments related to our area of expertise, we contend that we are well positioned to issue the kinds of critiques that may resonate more deeply due to the very subjectivity that some perceive as a liability. Second, through the melding of scholarly arguments with popular writing forms, scholar-bloggers are uniquely poised to be at the forefront of public engagement and political literacy both with social media publics and with students. Third, the subjectivity hazard is an intrinsic part of any type of research and writing, whether that writing is aimed at a scholarly audience or any other, and should not be used as an argument against academic involvement in social media. Ultimately, subjectivities of both consumers and producers can evolve through these highly interactive media, a dynamic that deserves further examination.
The Arab-Israeli conflict can be a difficult topic to teach, for a variety of reasons. As such, this article represents a conversation by four scholar-teachers of the Middle East and the conflict about our approaches to teaching it. We discuss our motivations for the manner in which we teach the conflict and some of the specific tools we use to do so, including the use of history, role-playing and simulations, emphasis on narratives, and active learning instruments (such as movies and music). We also engage with each other, interspersing our own suggestions and reactions to each other's discussion. By doing so, we aim to provide an open atmosphere for others to consider how we teach the conflict, in the hopes of better understanding it.
The most likely solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a two-state solution, will entail the relocation of thousands of Israeli settlers out of the West Bank. This article starts from the premise that material incentives will be only part of the solution to how Israel will manage the movement of the settlers. An equally important set of inducements will involve identity and symbols. The article outlines three ways that the Israeli government can address the identity needs of the West Bank settlers in a post-peace scenario: by emphasizing the history of place, encouraging the frontier Zionist spirit, and recasting the public-private spatial divide. Countries interested in promoting a final peace, and in particular the Obama administration, accordingly, will have to consider shifting its policy discourse from focusing only on a settlement freeze, to helping both sides deal with the identity needs of their various domestic populations.