Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, PhD
Associate Professor, Political Science & Legal Studies
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On sabbatical, AY 2023-2023
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BA, Tel-Aviv University
Research Interests
- International Relations Theory
- International Norms
- International Policy
- Transitional Justice
- The Conflict in Israel/Palestine
Employment History
- Brandeis University
Senior Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies (2021-2022)
- Wellesley College
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science (2014-2016)
- MIT
Lecturer, Department of Political Science (Spring 2014)
- Brandeis University
Lecturer, Department of Politics/ Coexistence and Conflict Program (2009-2012)
Publications
- "Democracy at Risk: Assessing Israel’s Democratic Backsliding." 2022. Middle East Brief 150, Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- "Historical Acknowledgment as an Early Conflict Negotiation Strategy: A Feasibility Study of Israel/Palestine." Negotiation Journal, Spring 2021 37(2), 163-191.
- "Conceptualizing and assessing norm strength in International Relations." with Jennifer M. Dixon. European Journal of International Relations, June 2021 27(2), 521-547.
- "Otherness and Resilience in Bilateral Relations." with Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Journal of International Relations and Development, 2020, 24, 365-380.
- “How Identity Issues Keep India and Israel Apart,” with Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, July 10, 2017.
- "Ideational Change and the Emergence of the International Norm of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions," European Journal of International Relations, 2014, 20 (3): 810-833. First published online on July 12, 2013.
- "Measuring the Impacts of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Placing the Global 'Success' of TRCs in Local Perspective," with Megan Mackenzie and Mohammed Sesay, Cooperation and Conflict, 2012, 47 (3): 386-403.
- "From Taboo to the Negotiable: The Israeli New Historians and the Changing Representation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem," Perspectives on Politics, 2007, 5 (2): 241-258.
- "Agents of Truth and Justice: Truth Commissions and the Transitional Justice Epistemic Community," in Volker Heins and David Changler (eds.), Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes. London: Routledge, 2007, 184-205.
