Yossi Shain

Yossi Shain (b. September 21 1956 in Israel) is an academic specializing in international relations, comparative politics and diaspora politics. Yossi received his PhD from Yale in 1988. He formerly headed of the political science department at Tel Aviv University (located in Israel). From 1999-2003, he was the "Goldman visiting Professor of Government" at Georgetown University (located in Washington DC, United States). At present he holds a dual-appointment at both Georgetown University and Tel Aviv University.

Books:
* "Kinship and Diasporas in International Politics" (Michigan University Press, 2007)
* "Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the UN and Their Homelands" (1999)
* "The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exile in the Age of the Nation State" (1989; new edition Michigan University Press, 2005) "Between States: Interim Governments and Democratic Transition (with Juan J. Linz)(Cambridge University Press 1995) Prominent papers:
* Shain, Yossi. (2002) "The Role of Diasporas in Conflict Perpetuation or Resolution." "SAIS Review." 22(2):115-144.
* Shain, Yossi & Tanja Flanagan. (2005) "The New Jewish and German Questions and the Transatlantic Alliance." "Israel Studies." 10(1):188-209.
* Shain, Yossi. (1996) "Arab-Americans in the 1990s: What Next for the Diaspora?" "The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research (Tel-Aviv)."

ee also

* Diaspora politics in the United StatesExtended Bio: Yossi Shain holds a dual appointment at Georgetown University and Tel Aviv University. At Georgetown he is Professor of comparative government and Diaspora Politics and he is the first Director of the Center for Jewish Civilization. At Tel Aviv University he is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Hartog School of Government.

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.

External links

* [http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/government/faculty/ys7/ Yossi Shain's Georgetown University homepage]
* [http://spirit.tau.ac.il/poli/faculty/shain/shain.html Yossi Shain's Tel Aviv University homepage]