Dr Jeremy Pressman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeremy Pressman is an Associate Professor of political science at the University of Connecticut (United States). He is author of Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics (Cornell University Press, 2008) and co-author of Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace (Brookings, 1997). Pressman has published articles in the Boston Review, International Security, Security Studies, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Pressman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His website is at http://anacreon.clas.uconn.edu/~pressman/
While at the USSC, Pressman will evaluate the U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1967. The research begins with cataloguing and categorizing U.S. behavior in relation to both moments of Arab-Israeli conflict and the multiple diplomatic initiatives. This recounting of U.S. policy will set the stage for assessing the efficacy of the policies and comparing U.S. justifications for political and military involvement over time. This work on U.S. policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict is part of a larger project that analyzes the use of military force and diplomacy by Arab actors, Israel, and the major external power, the United States.
