Dr. Piki Ish-Shalom is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the 2015-16 academic year he will be a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University as well as the Israel Institute Visiting Professor. He was formerly the Director of the Leonard Davis for International relations Associate Professor (2012-15). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International affairs and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both at Harvard University. In addition he was a visiting scholar at the New School University in New York, at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), and at the Institute for the Human Studies (IWM) in Vienna. He is the author of Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (University of Michigan Press, 2013), as well as articles in different scholarly journals such as International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics.