Mailing address
One Brattle Square 515
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Ehud Eiran
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-2581
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: ehud_eiran@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Ehud (Udi) Eiran is a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center’s International Security Program. He holds a B.A (Magna Cum Laude) and an LL.B from Tel Aviv University, and an M. Phil (High Pass) from Cambridge University. Eiran is a Ph.D candidate in Politics at Brandeis University. Eiran has also been affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School since 2003.
Prior to his studies, Eiran served as an officer in the Israeli Army and is currently a Reserve Major. He was a legal clerk for two Israeli Attorney Generals and Assistant to Prime Minister Ehud Barak's Foreign Policy Advisor.
Eiran was a 1997 recipient of the British Chevening Award and the 2002 winner of the Morris Abrams Award. He was also awarded a certificate of distinction in teaching from the Bok Center at Harvard University and an Outstanding Teaching Fellow award from Brandeis University.
Eiran’s op-eds have been published in numerous papers in the United States, Israel, and India, and he has been a guest on a number of television and radio programs such as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and On Point with Tom Ashbrook.
As a volunteer, Eiran has worked with Israeli and U.S. youth groups and with the Israeli Center for Psychological Support for Holocaust Survivors.
Eiran is married to Margot Rabinowitz-Eiran (MBA 02’) and the proud father of Ori, Shira, and Ella Eiran.
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Winter 2009
"Politics and the 2005 Gaza and North West Bank Compensation and Assistance Facility"
Journal Article, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, volume 14
By Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
This paper explores and analyzes the claims and assistance facility created by Israel in order to compensate and aid these relocated settlers, and makes two contributions. First, it investigates the structural features of the claims and assistance facility. Second, it explores the effect of politics on the development, construction, and implementation of the facility. Rather than creating, as in most facilities, a mechanism to redress an injury already suffered, the Israeli government developed ted a compensation mechanism for a future injury that the government itself was about to cause. This situation contributed to the politicization of the facility and put the settlers in the impossible position of wanting to prevent the injury in the first place, while still having adequate compensation should the injury be unstoppable.
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July 26, 2009
"What Israel Needs from Palestinians"
Op-Ed, The Providence Journal
By Nir Eisikovits and Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"The demand for recognition as articulated by Prime Minister Netanyahu leaves more to be desired. While he demanded recognition for Israel, he granted none to the Palestinians. If Israel's prime minister wanted the most basic aspects of his people's national story acknowledged, he should have reciprocated in kind."
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June 6, 2009
"The Two-State Trap in the Mideast"
Op-Ed, The Providence Journal
By Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program and Nir Eisikovits
"...A weak (or even worse, a failed) Palestinian state next to Israel will most likely lead not to the end of violence, but rather to its perpetuation. This is also a dangerous dichotomy, as it does not leave room for failure despite the fact that failure may come. The Palestinian national movement is deeply divided, and the Israeli public fears — based on the lessons of the withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza — that leaving the West Bank would compromise its security. The logical conclusion from presenting a binary map for the future — two states or war — when a two-state option is highly unlikely, is that the proposed frame has a great potential to destabilize the situation, rather than calm it.
November 26, 2008
"In the Name of Peace, Israelis and Palestinians Should Become European"
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations and Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...The dual identity of a supranational entity comprised of peaceful national states holds the answer for both sides' most profound concerns. For Israelis, EU membership offers physical security and permanent legitimacy. For Palestinians, membership means a territorial settlement, including a return, of sorts, of their lands through the new joint European source of security and authority over them."
December 30, 2007
"Revolution and Counter Revolution: The Israeli Supreme Court from the 1980's onward, 1980–2004"
Book Chapter
By Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Ehud Eiran reviews the changes in the Israeli Supereme court since the 1980's and places them in the broader institutional, historical, and cultural contexts in this essay.
May 2007
The Essence of Longing: General Erez Gerstein and the War in Lebanon
Book
By Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
The Essence of Longing goes beyond Gerstein's biography and a detailing of the operations he led: It is also the story of Israel's counter insurgency wars in Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s and the tale of the generation that fought there and leads the Israel Defense forces today.
May 2007
"Lords of the Earth? The 2005 Disengagement and the Israeli Settlement Project"
Book Chapter
By Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"A persuasive set of comparative essays that move us beyond the inaccurate sui generis claims routinely applied to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."—Prof. Thomas G. Weiss, Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center
Winter 2006
"Barriers to Progress at the Negotiation Table: Internal Conflicts among Israelis and among Palestinians"
Journal Article, Nevada Law Journal, volume 6
By Robert H. Mnookin, Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program and Sreemati Mitter
May 2005
"Discord 'Behind the Table': The Internal Conflict Among Israeli Jews Concerning the Future of Settlements in the West Bank and Gaza"
Journal Article, Journal of Dispute Resolution, issue 1, volume 2005
By Robert H. Mnookin and Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
