Piki Ish-Shalom

Dr. Piki Ish-Shalom is The A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Family Chair in International Relations and Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he pursued his Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations. Currently he is a member of the Steering Committe of the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of ECPR. Formerly he was the Director of the Leonard Davis for International relations Associate Professor (2012-15). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International affairs and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both at Harvard University. In addition he was the Israel Institute Visiting Professor as well as a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University (2015-16), visiting scholar at the New School University in New York (2000-2001), at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) (2012), and at the Institute for the Human Studies (IWM) in Vienna (2001). He is the author of Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (University of Michigan Press, 2013), as well as articles in different scholarly journals such as International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics.

He is interested in issues of ethics and international relations, in the nexus between theorizing the political and politicizing the theoretical, in the political construction of social knowledge, and in exploring and practicing responsible academia.