Uriel Abulof

Uriel Abulof is an associate professor of politics at Tel-Aviv University, teaching at Cornell University. Abulof studies the politics of fear, happiness and hope, legitimation, social movements, existentialism, nationalism and ethnic conflicts. Abulof published several books and edited volumes, over sixty peer-reviewed academic articles, and copious essays and op-eds. His articles have appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Political Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Political Science Review, Ethnopolitics, Society, Journal of International Relations and Development, Contemporary Politics, and International Politics. His recent books include The Mortality and Morality of Nations __ (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (Haifa University Press, 2015), Self-Determination: A Double-Edged Concept (Routledge, 2016) and Communication, Legitimation and Morality in Modern Politics (Routledge, 2017). He is currently working on three book projects: Killing Humanity: From Existential Conflict to Coexistence (on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), Abyss & Horizon: Political Existentialism and Humanity’s Midlife Crisis (on the mismatch between objective peace and prosperity and intersubjective unease), and Death, Freedom, and the Search of Meaning (on what makes us human – in and beyond politics). Abulof introduces “political existentialism” as novel approach in the social sciences. He created and directs various pertinent public projects, including Double-Edged, a Psychology Today blog, the Sapienism initiative, and the PrincetonX award-wining online course, HOPE, reviewed best online course of all times in political science and philosophy. Abulof is the recipient of the 2016 Young Scholar Award in Israel Studies.