Global Studies Quarterly · 2026
Theorizing Digital Underdogs
Geopolitical window dependency and audience targeting in Azerbaijan’s campaign toward Israel, 2023–2024.
Read at Oxford Academic ↗International Relations · Security · Foreign Policy Analysis
EldadBen Aharon
Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Researching Israeli foreign policy, international security, Israel–Turkey relations, international memory politics and digital diplomacy.
About
Research across history and international relations
My work is actor-centred and evidence-led, combining archival research and elite oral-history interviews with international-relations analysis.
My research focuses on Israeli foreign policy, Israel–Turkey relations, international memory politics, security, and digital diplomacy. I use theory as an analytical instrument to reconstruct how political actors, institutions and historical narratives shape foreign-policy choices.
Research
Selected areas
Israeli Foreign Policy
Foreign-policy decision-making, regional strategy and Israel’s regional relations.
International Security & Intelligence
Security institutions, intelligence leadership, alliances and regional security.
International Memory Politics
Historical memory, state interests, recognition politics and international norms.
Digital & Public Diplomacy
Digital communication, audience targeting and public diplomacy.
Featured work
Recent and selected research
European Journal of International Security
Political audience and non-linear securitisation
Revisiting Israel–Iran relations and the making of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Read at Cambridge Core ↗Intelligence and National Security
Profiles in intelligence
Elite oral-history interviews on intelligence and national-security leadership, including Tamir Pardo, Danny Yatom, Efraim Halevy and Moshe Ya’alon.
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Edinburgh University Press · 2025
Israeli–Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War
The Geopolitics of Denying the Armenian Genocide
A study of clandestine diplomacy, security and international memory politics in the pivotal 1980s.
Contact
Get in touch
For research, media, speaking and academic enquiries, please contact me at PRIF.
Eldad.BenAharon@prif.org