Uriel Abulof Ph.D.

Uriel Abulof, Ph.D., is an associate professor of politics at Tel-Aviv University, also teaching at Cornell University. He studies the politics of fear, happiness and hope, legitimation, social movements, nationalism, and ethnic conflicts, introducing political existentialism to the social sciences. Abulof is the recipient of the 2016 Young Scholar Award in Israel Studies, and leads edX online course, HOPE: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism. He also directs the blog Sapienism: Living up to Our Humanity.

Abulof’s 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), which received Israel’s best academic book award (Bahat Prize). Abulof is also the co-editor of Self-Determination: A Double-Edged Concept (Routledge) and Communication, Legitimation and Morality in Modern Politics (Routledge). He is currently working on three book projects: Killing Humanity: From Existential Conflict to Coexistence (on, and beyond, the Israeli-Palestinian clash), Abyss & Horizon: Political Existentialism and Humanity’s Midlife Crisis (on the mismatch between objective peace and prosperity and intersubjective unease), and Death, Meaning and the Search for Meaning (on what makes us human – in and beyond politics).

Abulof has published over sixty peer-reviewed articles in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Political Science, International Political Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies and International Politics.