Staff profile

Ilan Zvi Baron completed his doctorate at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 2007 where he was an E.H. Carr Scholar and recipient of an Overseas Research Scheme grant. He completed an MSc in International Relations at the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) in Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Professor Baron has held visiting positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of British Columbia, and the London School of Economics. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona D'Estudis Internacionals.

Professor Baron's research explores different ways that we experience international politics in our everyday lives. His research has addressed post-truth politics, disinformation and democracy, political responsibility, the Jewish Diaspora's relationship with Israel, and the international cultural politics of Israeli cuisine. In addition, he has written on violence, the ethics of war, identity and security, and International Relations theory.

He is currently working on a book project about responsibility that engages with dystopian and science fiction novels. This project has been supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant and a Huntington Fellowship.

• Political Responsibility
• International Political Theory
• Political Theory
• Jewish Diaspora and Zionism
• International Political Sociology
• Dystopia
• Food Politics (Israeli Cuisine)

• 2000: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia: Between January and April 2014, I was a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History, at the University of British Columbia, where I completed the my book, "Obligation in Exile" which is about the Jewish Diaspora's relationship with Israel. I also was one of the speakers at the inaugural Limmud Vancouver (http://limmudvancouver.ca).
• 2000: Visiting Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations: From July 7, 2015 to September 30, 2015, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Authored book

• Baron, I. Z. (2018). How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times. Manchester University Press
• Baron, I. Z. (2015). Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique. Edinburgh University Press; Oxford University Press
• Gunning, J., & Baron, I. Z. (2013). Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution. Hurst & Company
• Baron, I. Z. (2009). Justifying the Obligation to Die: War, Ethics, and Political Obligation with Illustrations from Zionism. Lexington Books

Book review

• Baron, I. Z. (2017). Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine. By Daniel Monterescu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 384p. $85.00 cloth, $32.00 paper. Perspectives on Politics, 15(03), 791-792. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592717001013
• Baron, I. Z. (2009). Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism by Eric Hobsbawm. Intelligence and National Security, 24(6), 570-605. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2011.586544
• Baron, I. Z. (2005). Book Review: General International Relations Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism (London: Verso, 2002, 52 pp., £8.00 pbk.). Paul Virilio, Ground Zero (London: Verso, 2002, 82 pp., £8.00 pbk.). Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (London: Verso, 2002, 154 pp., £8.00 pbk.). Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 34(1), 267-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298050340010901
• Baron, I. Z. (2003). Today (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, 296 pp., £16.99 pbk., £55.00 hbk.). Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(1), 143-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298030320010708

Chapter in book

• Baron, I. Z. (2021). A Plural Theory on Responsibility in International Relations. In H. Hansen-Magnusson, & A. Vetterlein (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations (31-42). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429266317
• Baron, I. Z. (2019). Methodological Reflections about STAIR. In J. Singh, M. Carr, & R. Marlin-Bennett (Eds.), Science, technology, and art in international relations. Routledge
• Baron, I. Z. (2018). Diasporas and political obligation. In R. Cohen, & C. Fischer (Eds.), Routledge handbook of diaspora studies (223-230). Routledge
• Baron, I. Z. (2016). Reflexivity, Critique, and the Jewish Diaspora. In J. L. Amoureux, & B. J. Steele (Eds.), Reflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Critique, and Practice (179-200). Routledge

Journal Article

• Amuso, V., & Baron, I. Z. (online). Disruptive technology and regulatory conundrums: The emerging governance of virtual currencies. Governance, 37(2), 561-578. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12783
• Baron, I. Z., & Ish-Shalom, P. (2024). Exploring the Threat of Fake News: Facts, Opinions, and Judgement. Political Research Quarterly, 77(2), 620-632. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241234839
• Baron, I., & Press-Barnathan, G. (2021). Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism. International Political Sociology, 15(3), 338-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab007
• Baron, I. Z., Havercroft, J., Kamola, I., Koomen, J., & Pritchard, A. (2020). Flipping the Academic Conference, Or How We Wrote A Peer-Reviewed Journal Article In A Day. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 45(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375419898577
• Kelman, A. Y., & Baron, I. Z. (2019). Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel. Contemporary Jewry, 39, 497-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-019-09305-2
• Baron, I. Z., Kamola, I. A., Havercroft, J., Murphy, J., Koomen, J., & Pritchard, A. (2019). Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence. International Studies Quarterly, 63(1), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy060
• Baron, I. Z. (2019). Falsifiability, the politics of evidence, and the importance of narratives. Critical Studies on Security, 7(2), 171-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2018.1441640
• Baron, I. Z. (2018). The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel. Journal of International Political Theory, 14(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088217741322
• Baron, I. Z. (2017). Response to Daniel Monterescu's review of Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique. Perspectives on Politics, 15(03), https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592717001049
• Baron, I. Z. (2016). Eating Jerusalem: Politics, Food and Identity. Jewish studies quarterly, 23(3), 267-285. https://doi.org/10.1628/094457016x14805817132455
• Baron, I. Z. (2016). Reading Cookbooks: Israeli Food and the International Relations of the Every Day. Arts & international affairs, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.18278/aia.1.1.4
• Baron, I. Z. (2015). IR has not, is not and will not take place. International Relations, 29(2), 259-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117815585888d
• Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(1), 224-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829814541834
• Baron, I. Z. (2014). Diasporic Security and Jewish Identity. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 13(2), 292-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2013.824231
• Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics. Jewish journal of sociology, 56(1/2), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.5750/jjsoc.v56i1/2.87
• Baron, I. Z. (2010). Dying for the State: The Missing Just War Question?. Review of International Studies, 36(1), 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1017/s026021050999057x
• Baron, I. Z. (2009). The Problem of Dual Loyalty. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 42(4), 1025-1044. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008423909990011

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Baron, I. Z. (2017). How to save politics in a post-truth era?