Uriel Abulof is Associate Professor of Politics at Tel-Aviv University and LISD senior research fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of The Mortality of Morality of Nations (Cambridge University Press) and Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (Haifa University Press), which won Israel’s best academic book award. He studies political legitimation, social movements, nationalism and ethnic conflicts. His articles have appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Political Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Ethnic and Racial Studies and International Politics.