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Professor Yossi Shain holds a dual appointment at Tel Aviv University and Georgetown University . At Tel Aviv University he is Professor of Political Science and former Head of the Hartog School of Government. At Georgetown he is Professor of comparative government and Diaspora Politics and he is the first Director of the Center for Jewish Civilization.
Professor Shain earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1988 with distinction and since 1989 he has taught Political Science at Tel Aviv University, where he served as Head of the Political Science Department from 1996 to 1999. Professor Shain held visiting appointments at Yale University, Wesleyan University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Middlebury College. He has also been a visiting Senior Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Prior to his appointment as Full Professor at Georgetown in 2002, Professor Shain was the only Israeli who was selected three consecutive times as Aaron and Cecile Goldman Visiting Professor at Georgetown.
Professor Shain won many scholarly awards including The APSA Helen Dwight Reed Award, International Fulbright, Best Book of the Year Prize by the Israeli Political Science Association, Israel's Allon fellowship for distinguished young scholars, and fellowships from the French and German governments for his work on nationalism, ethnicity and Diaspora politics. In 2003 he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, and in 2004-2005, he received a fellowship from the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector.
Professor Shain’s books include The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State (1989; new edition Michigan UP, 2005); Between States: Interim Governments and Democratic Transitions (with Juan J. Linz) (Cambridge UP 1995), Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homelands (Cambridge UP, 1999), and Kinship in International Affairs (forthcoming Michigan UP). He is also the editor of Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics (Routledge, 1991) and coeditor (with Aharon Kleiman) of Democracy: The Challenges Ahead (Macmillan, 1997). Shain is now writing a book entitled: “Who Speaks on Behalf of the Jews and with What Authority?” and is editing with Eric Langenbacher a volume on Collective Memory in International Affairs.
Professor Shain has published more than 40 articles in books and leading academic journals, including International Organization, International Affairs, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Orbis, Political Science Quarterly, Nations and Nationalism, The Journal of Democracy and Government and Opposition.
Professor Shain contributes essays and commentaries to newspapers and magazines in Israel and the US and is a regular guest on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, The News Hour and on many radio shows.
Publications:
Books:
1. Yossi Shain, The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exile in the Age of the Nation-State (Wesleyan University Press, 1989). Paper edition 1990 (Wesleyan and New England University Press), 214 pp. (Revised edition is forthcoming by Michigan University Press, 2004).
2. Yossi Shain and Juan J. Linz, Between States: Interim Governments and Democratic Transition (Two volumes: Vol. 1: Theory. Vol. 2 is edited under the name Case Studies) (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 326 pp. Paper Edition 1995.
3. Yossi Shain, Marketing the American Creed Abroad. Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homelands (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 294 pp. Paper Edition 1999.
Accepted:
1. Yossi Shain, Kinship and Diasporas in International Affairs (forthcoming, Michigan University Press 2004).
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Monographs:
1. Yossi Shain, Arab-Americans in the 1990s: What Next for the Diaspora?
(Tel-Aviv: The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, 1996), 72 pp.
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Articles:
1. Yossi Shain, “Who is a Political Exile: Defining a Field of Study for Political Science,” International Migration 25 (December 1988): 387-400.
2. Yossi Shain, “The War of Governments Against the Opposition Abroad,” Government and Opposition 24 (Summer 1989): 341-356.
3. Yossi Shain and Mark Thompson, “Political Exiles in Transitions to Democracy: The Case of the Philippines,” Journal of Developing Societies 6 (January 1990): 71-86. Reprinted in Quee-Young Kim, ed., Revolutions in the Third World (New York: Brill, 1991).
4. Yossi Shain, “Political Exiles and the Era of Transnationalism,” The Jerusalem Journal of International Relations 12 (June 1990): 19-28.
5. Yossi Shain, “The Shifting Character of Loyalty,” Comparative Politics 22 (April 1990): 323-340.
6.Yossi Shain, “Stateless Contenders and the Global Mythology,” Journal of Political Science 18 (Spring 1990): 5-32.
7.Yossi Shain and Gad Barzilai, “Israeli Democracy at a Crossroads: A Crisis of Non Governability,” Government and Opposition 26 (August 1991): 345-368.
8.Yossi Shain and Reuben Aharoni, “Players or Playing Cards: The Palestinians and the Gulf Crisis,” Journal of Political Science 19 (Summer 1991): 55-68. Reprinted in Martin Slann and Bernard Schechterman, eds., The Ethnic Nationalist Dimension in International Relations (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992), 57-70.
9.Yossi Shain and Lynn Berat, “Interim Governments in Democratic Transition: Lessons from Namibia, Hope for South Africa?” Conflict 11 (Jan-March 1991): 17-39.
10. Yossi Shain and Lynn Berat, “Provisional Governments in Democratization: The ‘International Interim Government’ Model and the Case of Namibia,” Coexistence 29(1) (January 1992): 19-40.
11. Yossi Shain and Juan Linz, “The Role of Interim Governments,” Journal of Democracy 3(1) (January 1992): 73-89.
12. Yossi Shain and Lynn Berat, “Evening the Score: Layered Legacies of the Interregnum,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe 4(1) (January-June 1993): 57-91.
13. Yossi Shain, “Marketing the Democratic Creed Abroad: US Diasporic Politics in the Era of Multiculturalism,” Diaspora 3(1) (Spring 1994): 85-111.
14. Yossi Shain, “Ethnic Diaspora and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1994/95) 109(5): 811-842. Reprinted in Demetrios J. Caraley & Bonnie B. Hartman, eds., American Leadership, Ethnic Conflict, and the New World Politics (New York: The Academy of Political Science, 1997), 113-143.
15. Yossi Shain, “Multicultural Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy 100 (Fall 1995): 69-87.
Reprinted in Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen, eds. Chapter 33, Migration Diasporas and Transnationalism (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Publishers, 1999).
16. Lynn Berat and Yossi Shain, “Retribution of Truth-Telling in South Africa? Legacies of the Transitional Phase,” Law and Social Inquiry 20(1) (Winter 1995): 163-190.
17. Yossi Shain, “Arab-Americans at a Crossroads,” Journal of Palestine Studies 25(2) (April 1996): 46-59.
18. Yossi Shain and Martin Sherman, “Dynamics of Disintegration: Diaspora, Secession and the Paradox of Nation States,” Nations and Nationalism 4(3) (July 1998): 321-346.
19. Yossi Shain and Gary Sussman, “From Occupation to State-Building: Palestinian Political Society Meets Palestinian Civil Society,” Government and Opposition 33(3) (Summer 1998): 275-306.
20. Yossi Shain, "The Mexican-American Diasporas Impact on Mexico," Political Science Quarterly 114 (4) (Winter 1999-2000): 661-691.
21. Yossi Shain, "For Ethnic Americans, The Old Country Calls,” The Foreign Service Journal 77:10 (October 2000): 17-24
22. Yossi Shain , "American Jews and the Construction of Israel's Jewish Identity," Diaspora 9:2 Fall 2000): 163-201.
23. Yossi Shain, "A renovacao da seguranco nacional judaica: um dilema revisitado," Political Internacional (Portugal) 24:3 (Outono 2001): 141-174.
24. Yossi Shain and Martin Sherman, "Diasporic Transnational Financial Flows and their Impact on National Identity," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 7:4 (Winter 2001): 1-36.
25. Yossi Shain The Role of Diasporas in Conflict Perpetuation or Resolution,” SAIS Review 22:2 (Summer-Fall 2002): 115-144.
26. Yossi Shain and Barry Bristmen, "Diaspora, Kinship and Loyalty: The Renewal of Jewish National Security," International Affairs 78:1 (January 2002): 69-96.
27. Yossi Shain and Barry Bristman, "The Jewish Security Dilemma," Orbis 46:1(Winter 2002): 47-71.
28. Yossi Shain, “Jewish Kinship at Crossroads: Lessons for Homelands and Diaspora" Political Science Quarterly 117:2 (Summer 2002): 279-309.
29. Yossi Shain and Aharon Barth, “Diasporas and International Relations Theory,” International Organization 57 (Summer 2003): 449-479.
30. Yossi Shain and Ariel I. Ahram, “The Frontiers of Loyalty: Do They Really Change?,” Orbis 47:4 (Fall 2003): 661-673. (Hebrew version in Hakeshet Hachadash, Aug. 2003)
Submitted for Publication:
1) Yossi Shain and Steve Lenzner "Jewish Voices, Jewish Influences and Neconservatism"
under review with the Policy Review
2) Yossi Shain and Tanja Flanagan"The New Jewish and German Questions and the Transatlantic Alliance" under review with Government and Opposition
Chapters in Books:
1. Yossi Shain, “Governments in Exile in the Age of Democratic Transitions,” in Yossi Shain (ed.), Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics (New York: Routledge, 1991), 1-17.
2. Yossi Shain, “The Boundaries of International Legitimation,” in Yossi Shain (ed.), Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics (New York: Routledge, 1991), 219-237.
3. Yossi Shain, “Democrats and Secessionists: Diasporas as Regime Destabilizers,” in Myron Weiner (ed.), International Migrations and Security Stability of States (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), 287-322.
4. Yossi Shain, “Minimum Claims Maximum Gains: The Advantages of Juan Linz’s Definition of Democracy,” in H.E. Chehabi and Alfred Stepan (eds.), Politics, Society and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), 45-56.
5. Yossi Shain, “The Foreign Policy Role of US Diasporas and Its Domestic Consequences,” in Philip J. Davies, ed., Representing an Imagining America (Keele University Press, 1996): 101-115.
6. Yossi Shain and Aharon Klieman, “Introduction––Democracy: The Challenges Ahead,” in Y.Shain and A. Klieman, Democracy: The Challenges Ahead (Oxford and New York: Macmillan, St. Antony’s Series and St. Martins Press, 1997), 1-16.
7. Yossi Shain, "Whose Israel? Jewish-Americans and the Transnational Battle for Jewish Identity," in A. Ben-Zvi and A. Klieman, eds., Global Politics: Essays in Honor of David Vital (London: Frank Cass, 2001), 327-366.
8. Yossi Shain and Tamar Coffman Wittes, "Peace as a Three Level Game: The Role of Diasporas in Conflict Resolution," in Thomas Ambrosio, (ed.), Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy (Wesport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002), 169-198.
9. Yossi Shain “The Jewish Question: The Old and the New,” in Jon Tirman, ed., Maze of Fear (New York: The New Press, 2004), pp. 369-400.
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Editing:
1. Yossi Shain (Ed.), Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics
(New York: Routledge, 1991), 260 pp. Paper edition 1991.
2. Yossi Shain and Aharon Klieman (Eds.), Democracy: The Challenges Ahead
(Oxford and New York: Macmillan, St. Antony’s Series, St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 237 pp.
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Other Publications:
Book Reviews:
Yossi Shain, "Reluctant Hosts: Europe and its Refugees." Review article, International Migration (September 1990): 387-389.
Yossi Shain, "The Global Migration Crisis: Challenges to States and Human Rights," by Myron Weiner, Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1995-96): 651-52.
Other Activities:
Also published journalistic and non-academic essays in Israel and the US, and appeared for commentary on numerous Israeli and American radio and television shows, including CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS (The News Hour Show) and NPR.
Latest journalistic feature essay Yossi Shain and Ze'ev Segal, "Defender of the Jews, wherever they may be," Ha'aretz, English Edition, September 6, 2002. (2300 words). Review of The Israeli Diaspora by J. Gold (Routledge 2002) (Jerusalem Post)
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