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A Plural Theory on Responsibility in International Relations (2021)
Book Chapter
Baron, I. Z. (2021). A Plural Theory on Responsibility in International Relations. In H. Hansen-Magnusson, & A. Vetterlein (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations (31-42). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429266317

This chapter offers an outline for a plural theory of responsibility. Responsibility is what someone does and who someone is. One is responsible. You are responsible. One acts responsibly. Responsibility is ontological and phenomenological, and the a... Read More about A Plural Theory on Responsibility in International Relations.

Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism (2021)
Journal Article
Baron, I., & Press-Barnathan, G. (2021). Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism. International Political Sociology, 15(3), 338-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab007

The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied yet central component of everyday International Relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through ga... Read More about Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism.

Flipping the Academic Conference, Or How We Wrote A Peer-Reviewed Journal Article In A Day (2020)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z., Havercroft, J., Kamola, I., Koomen, J., & Pritchard, A. (2020). Flipping the Academic Conference, Or How We Wrote A Peer-Reviewed Journal Article In A Day. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 45(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375419898577

Is it possible to write a publishable, peer-reviewed academic paper in a day? We attempted this task in 2016, motivated by a desire to find new ways of doing academic work in the face of our growing sense of alienation within the neoliberal academy.... Read More about Flipping the Academic Conference, Or How We Wrote A Peer-Reviewed Journal Article In A Day.

Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel (2019)
Journal Article
Kelman, A. Y., & Baron, I. Z. (2019). Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel. Contemporary Jewry, 39, 497-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-019-09305-2

Israel has unified American Jewish communal life for much of the 20th century. However, early in the 21st century, Israel may no longer serve as a source for Jewish unity but of division, and American Jews are increasingly having a difficult time tal... Read More about Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel.

Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence (2019)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z., Kamola, I. A., Havercroft, J., Murphy, J., Koomen, J., & Pritchard, A. (2019). Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence. International Studies Quarterly, 63(1), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy060

While international relations scholars make many claims about violence, they rarely define the concept. This article develops a typology of three distinct kinds of violence: direct, indirect, and pacification. Direct violence occurs when a person or... Read More about Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence.

Methodological Reflections about STAIR (2019)
Book Chapter
Baron, I. Z. (2019). Methodological Reflections about STAIR. In J. Singh, M. Carr, & R. Marlin-Bennett (Eds.), Science, technology, and art in international relations. Routledge

Diasporas and political obligation (2018)
Book Chapter
Baron, I. Z. (2018). Diasporas and political obligation. In R. Cohen, & C. Fischer (Eds.), Routledge handbook of diaspora studies (223-230). Routledge

In an essay on the state of political theory, Isaiah Berlin (1969: 7) suggests that ‘the most fundamental of all political questions’ is ‘why should anyone obey anyone else?’ Similarly, A. P. d’Entrèves (1959: 3) claims that ‘the history of political... Read More about Diasporas and political obligation.

How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times (2018)
Book
Baron, I. Z. (2018). How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times. Manchester University Press

The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order – the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel h... Read More about How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times.

The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel (2017)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2018). The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel. Journal of International Political Theory, 14(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088217741322

This article explores a question that is often assumed but rarely addressed: What does Israel provide ideationally for Diaspora Jews that serves as the basis for Diaspora/Israel relations and justifies the importance of Israel for Jewish identity? Wh... Read More about The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel.

Reading Cookbooks: Israeli Food and the International Relations of the Every Day (2016)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2016). Reading Cookbooks: Israeli Food and the International Relations of the Every Day. Arts & international affairs, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.18278/aia.1.1.4

To explore the foods of another country, people or region is one way to visit other parts of the world, to discover different tastes and customs, and perhaps in the search for key ingredients, to meet new people with ties to these lands. Yet embarkin... Read More about Reading Cookbooks: Israeli Food and the International Relations of the Every Day.

Reflexivity, Critique, and the Jewish Diaspora (2015)
Book Chapter
Baron, I. Z. (2016). Reflexivity, Critique, and the Jewish Diaspora. In J. L. Amoureux, & B. J. Steele (Eds.), Reflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Critique, and Practice (179-200). Routledge

The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries (2014)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(1), 224-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829814541834

This article is concerned with addressing the following hypothesis, originally presented in Millennium in 2001: International Relations theory does not influence other academic fields to the extent that it suggests that it should. This claim is re-ex... Read More about The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries.