CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICTIONS

Alexander Yakobson

Updated: Septmber 2012 

Elections and Electioneering in Rome: A Study in the Political System of the Late Republic, Historia Einzelschriften, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999.

Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein, Israel and the Family of Nations: Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights, Schocken, Tel Aviv 2003 (in Hebrew). 

French version: Israël et les nations. L’État-nation juif et les droits de l-homme, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2006.

English version: Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights, Routledge, London and New York 2009. A paperback edition appeared in August 2010.

Azar Gat with Alexander Yakobson, Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013 (Alexander Yakobson, Chapter 7: "State, national identity, ethnicity: normative and constitutional aspects", 328 – 379).

Edited Books:

Anita Shapira, Yedidia Z. Stern and Alexander Yakobson (eds.),  Nationalism and Binationalism: The Perils of Perfect Structures (Volume 1 of Contemporary Challenges to the Nation State: Global and Israeli Perspectives), Sussex Academic Press, Sussex 2013.

Anita Shapira, Yedidia Z. Stern and Alexander Yakobson (eds.), The Nation State and Religion, The Resurgence of Faith ( Volume 2 of Contemporary Challenges to the Nation State: Global and Israeli Perspectives), Sussex Academic Press, Sussex, forthcoming in June 2013.

Articles

A. Yakobson and H. M. Cotton, "Caligula's recusatio imperii", Historia 34 (1985), 497 - 503.

"Petitio et Largitio: Popular Participation in the Centuriate Assembly of the Late Roman Republic", Journal of Roman Studies 82 (1992), 32 - 52.

"Dionysius of Halicarnassus on a 'Democratic Change'  in the Centuriate Assembly" , Scripta  Classica Israelica 12 (1993), 139 -  155.

"The Secret Ballot and its Impact", Hermes 123 (1995), 426  – 442.

A. Yakobson and H. Horstkotte,  "Yes, Quaestor: A Republican Politician Versus the Power of the Clerks", Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116 (1997), 247 -  248.

 “What does a carpenter know about politics? Democracy and its justification in ‘Protagoras’“,  Zmanim 64 (Autumn 1998), 23 – 33 (in Hebrew).

H. M. Cotton and A. Yakobson, "Arcanum Imperii: The Powers of Augustus"  in: G. Clark and T. Rajak (eds.), Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, 193-209. 

“Maiestas, the Imperial Ideology and the Imperial Family: the Evidence of the senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre”, in Eutopia (Nuova Serie III, 1 -2, Roma), 2003, 75 - 108 (published in 2006).

"Il popolo Romano, il sistema e l'"élite": il dibattito continua", Studi Storici  47/2 (2006/), 377 – 393.

 “Popular Power in the Roman Republic” in: N. Resenstein and R. Morstein-Marx (eds.), A Companion to the Roman Republic, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford  2006, 383 – 400.

"Us and them: Empire, memory and identity in Claudius' speech on bringing Gauls into the Roman Senate", in D. Mendels (ed.), On Memory. An Interdisciplinary Approach, Peter Lang, Bern 2007, 19 – 36.

"Jewish Peoplehood and the Jewish State, How Unique? - A Comparative Survey", Israel Studies 13/2, 2008, 1 – 27.

“Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and ‘Just War’ in the Late

Republic” in C. Eilers (ed.)  Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World, Brill, Leiden 2009, 45 – 72.

Entries: "Elections and Voting" and "Freedom", in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome Vol. 3, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pp. 35 – 38; 230 – 232.

"The theory of "just war" in the Roman Republic – did the Romans claim that their wars were defensive?" – in Sh. Avineri (ed.), War and Peace, Shazar Centre, Jerusalem 2010, 39-58 (in Hebrew).

"The First (Roman) Emperor: image and memory", in Yuri Pines (ed.), The Birth of Empire: The State of Qin revisited, Studies in China, International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley (forthcoming).

"Joining the Jewish people: non-Jewish immigrants from the former USSR, Israeli identity and Jewish peoplehood", Israel Law Review 43/1 (2010), 218 – 239.

'Traditional political culture and the people's role in the Roman Republic", Historia 30 (2010), 282-302.

"Political stability and public order – Athens vs.  Rome", in  Stability and Crisis in the Athenian Democracy (ed. Gabriel Herman), Historia Einzelschriften 220, Steiner Verlag,   Stuttgart 2011, 139 – 156.

"Zionism and multiculturalism', Law & Business: IDC Law Review  14 (2012), 1 – 45 (in Hebrew).

'The debate on the Roman political system: the elite, the people, and the relations between them, Zmanim 117 (Winter 2012).  32 – 45 (In Hebrew).

'Sionisme: un movement national? Une forme de colonialisme?', Cités 47-48 (2011), 155 – 170.

"Political rhetoric in China and in Imperial Rome: the persuader, the ruler, the audience", Extrême-Orient, Extr ême-Occident 34 (2012), 195 – 208.

"Elections, Roman", Encyclopedia of Ancient History (eds. R. Bagnall, K.  Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. R. Huebner), Wiley-Blackwell,
Oxford  2012, 1 – 5

"National Identity and Citizenship in a Jewish Nation State" in Anita Shapira, Yedidia Z. Stern and Alexander Yakobson (eds.),  Nationalism and Binationalism: The Perils of Perfect Structures (Volume 1 of Contemporary Challenges to the Nation State: Global and Israeli Perspectives), Sussex Academic Press, Sussex 2013, 202 - 205.

"God and Religion in Modern Democratic Constitutions" in Anita Shapira, Yedidia Z. Stern and Alexander Yakobson (eds.), The Nation State and Religion, The Resurgence of Faith ( Volume 2 of Contemporary Challenges to the Nation State: Global and Israeli Perspectives), Sussex Academic Press, Sussex, forthcoming in June 2013.

Review Articles:

"Mid-Republican Rome and Popular Politics", Scripta Classica Israelica 16 (1997), 252 - 258.

"The Princess of Inscriptions:  Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Parte  and the Early Years of Tiberius' Reign", Scripta Classica Israelica 17 (1998), 206 - 224.

“The People's Voice and the Speakers' Platform: Popular Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in the Roman Forum”,  Scripta Classica Israelica 23 (2004), 201 - 212.

Reviews:

Review of: Greg Rowe, Princes and Political Cultures: The  New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor  2002 in  Scripta Classica Israelica 22 (2003), 323  -  325.

Review of: H. I. Flower, The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture, University of North Carolina Press,  Chapel Hill 2006 in Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008), 198 – 199.

Review of: J. Geiger, The First Hall of Fame: A Study of the Statues in the Forum Romanum, Brill, Leiden 2008 in Scripta Classica Israelica 24 (2010), 126 – 128.

 Review of: H. I. Flower, Roman Republics, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford 2010 in American Journal of Philology 132.1 (2011), 153 – 156

Review of: M. A. Robb, Beyond Populares and Optimates: Political Language in the Late Republic, Historia Einzelschriften 213, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart  2010 in Scripta Scripta Classica Israelica  31(2012), 212 – 214.

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Miscellaneous

"מדינת לאום דמוקרטית", יהודים וערבים בישראל במציאות משתנה (בערכית שלמה חסון וח'אלד אבו-עסבה), מכון פלורסהיימר למחקרי מדיניות, ירושלים 2004, 38 – 46.

"מיעוט לאומי במדינת לאום דמוקרטית", מעמד המיעוט הערבי במדינת הלאום היהודית (בערכית אלי רכס ושרה אוסצקי-לזר), אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, מרכז משה דיין, 2005, 19 – 26.

"A national minority in a democratic nation-state", in Elie Reckhess and Sara Azacky-Lazar (eds), The Status of the Arab Minority in the Jewish Nation State, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 2005 19 – 26 (in Hebrew).

"החדווה שבהטפת מוסר" – מאמר ביקורת של ספרה של ג'קלין רוז, השאלה של ציון: ציונות בלא נחת, תרגום מאנגלית: עודד וולקשטיין, רסלינג, תלֿאביב 2007, 203 עמודים, קתרסיס 9 (2008), 18 – 50.

"The Joy of Moral Preaching", Review of: Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion, Hebrew translation by Oded Wolkstein, Resling, Tel Aviv 2007, in Katharsis: A Critical Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences 9 (2008), pp. 18 – 50.(in Hebrew)

"מתפוררת, שמיתפוררת – החברה הישראלית מול הנבואות על התפרקותה", כיוונים חדשים 18, יולי 2008, 40 – 57. 

Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein, "Israel and the family of nations: The Jewish nation-state and human rights, Justice: The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, 46, Spring 2009, 31 – 34.

"עמדות תומכי החלוקה", עורכת: רות גביזון, שישים שנה להחלטת כ"ט בנובמבר 1947, החלטת החלוקה והמחלוקת סביבה: מקורות ועיונים, מרכז מציל"ה, ירושלים 2009, 49 -60.

"הידיעות על מותה של הדמוקרטיה הישראלית מוקדמות מדי", המרחב הציבורי, גיליון 4, חורף 2010, 167 – 174.

"ישראליות והצטרפות ללאום", אקדמיה 22 (2011), 24 – 26.

'Israeli democracy is alive, kicking and screaming (a contribution to a round table on the future of the Israeli democracy), Israel Studies Review 26.1 (2011), 12-16.

'Against all odds: the story of Israeli democracy', Justice – the International Association

of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists 49 (Fall 2011), 11 – 34.

 "החשבון הדו-לאומי: סקירת המצב בעולם, באזור ובארץ", המרחב הציבורי, גיליון 6,  קיץ 2012, 15 – 41.

The Princess of Inscriptions:  Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Parte  and the Early Years of Tiberius' Reign