Storrs, CT (Special to Informed Comment) – Late in Trump’s presidency, a flurry of US activity reinforced the Trump administration’s total fidelity to Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli government and its US supporters. But underlying these policy moves is a shared Trump/Netanyahu belief that the threat and use of military force is the best and often […]
Jeremy Pressman

Jeremy Pressman is an associate professor of political science and director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. His third book is “The sword is not enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the limits of military force” (Manchester University Press, 2020). He has held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Sydney, the UConn Humanities Institute, and as a Fulbright Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Pressman is on twitter @djpressman. He also co-directs, with Erica Chenoweth, the Crowd Counting Consortium, a public and scholarly project that tallies protests in the United States.