Gershon Shafir, Professor
Ph.D. - UC Berkeley, 1980

Areas of Specialization:
Comparative-Historical Sociology, Nationalism, Citizenship and Globalization, Middle Eastern Societies, Theory

Email Address:  gshafir@ucsd.edu
Phone number:    858-534-2575
Office location:  494 Social Science Building

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Biography:

Gershon Shafir received his B.A.s in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology from Tel Aviv University, his M.A. from the University of California, UCLA, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (1989, and updated edition 1995), Immigrants and Nationalists (1995), and the editor of The Citizenship Debates (1998) and co-editor of The New Israel: Liberalization and Peacemaking (2000). His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, etc. His current research projects include: "Decolonization and Peacemaking in South Africa and Israel/Palestine" and "Was the Yom Kippur War Unavoidable?" His major area of interest is comparative-historical sociology, with emphases on nationalism, ethnicity, and citizenship rights.

* Shafir, G. and Peled, Y., editors, The New Israel : Peacemaking and Liberalization, Boulder , Westview Press, 2000.

*Shafir, G.: The Citizenship Debates: A Reader, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

*Shafir, G.: Immigrants and Nationalists: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation in Catalonia , the Basque Country , Latvia and Estonia , New York : State University of New York Press, 1995.

*Shafir, G.: Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882 - 1914, Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, 1989.

National Insecurity
and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism
By Gershon Shafir ( Editor )

Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany. It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperation are crucial foundations for counterterror policy. 

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