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Berlin Social Science Center, Visiting Professor

Fulbright US Senior Scholar Award

Director, Center for Jewish Studies

American Political Science Association

German Studies Association

Council of European Studies (executive committee 2020-2022)

American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Association for Jewish Studies

Association for Israel Studies

Does Military Service Make Individuals Susceptible to Political Violence? Attitudinal and Behavioral Evidence

Antisemitism and the Pogroms of Summer 1941

Populism or Patrimonialism? A Weberian Approach to 21st Century Anti-Liberalism

The Weimar/Russia Comparison Revisited

Understanding the Global Patrimonial Wave

The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust

Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust

Comparative Politics (00) by Kopstein, Jeffrey [Paperback (2000)]

Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century

Interethnic Violence

Antisemitism

Minority Voting Patterns

Jeffrey S. Kopstein is a leading professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and serves as the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. His work focuses on interethnic violence, antisemitism, minority political behavior, and the political history of Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Jewish communities in Europe and Russia. Through his research, Kopstein explores why ethnic violence occurs in some communities but not others and how political and social conditions shape these outcomes.

Before joining UCI, Kopstein taught at the University of Toronto, where he directed the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has also held visiting positions at institutions like Dartmouth College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Kopstein is the author and editor of several influential works. His acclaimed book Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust, co-authored with Jason Wittenberg, examines the local conditions that led to outbreaks of violence against Jews in Eastern Europe during World War II. He is also the editor of Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust, which brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on how political science can contribute to Holocaust studies. His forthcoming book, The Assault on the State, co-authored with Stephen E. Hanson, explores global threats to modern democratic governments.

His scholarly contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Ina Levine Invitational Scholarship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also received a Fulbright U.S. Senior Scholar Award.

At UCI, Kopstein leads the Center for Jewish Studies in developing new interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives. His mission is to foster greater understanding of Jewish history and culture while building connections between academic scholarship and the broader community. Through his research, teaching, and leadership, Kopstein continues to advance the study of ethnic relations, political violence, and collective memory on an international stage.

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Center for Jewish Studies

Trump Is Dismantling the Systems That Keep Us Safe. All Americans Will Suffer.

How antisemitism came roaring back into American life

Keynote Lecture: Antisemitism on Campus: A New Survey from the University of California

Dean's Professor of Political Science

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795974 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
Author: Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Stephen E. Hanson
Narrator: L.J. Ganser
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Release date: August 26, 2024
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary: 
What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the UK, and the US, attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not the free market and the flowering of personal liberty. Instead, the death of government agencies organized under the rule of law inevitably leads to the only realistic alternative: the rule of men. In The Assault on the State, political scientists Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein offer an impassioned plea to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. They dissect the attack on the machinery of government from its origins in post-Soviet Russia to the core powers of Western democracy. The dangers of state erosion imperil every aspect of our lives. Hanson and Kopstein outline a strategy that can reverse this destructive trend before humanity is plunged back into the pathological personalistic politics of premodern times.

The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future by Jeff...

May 1, 2024 / 4:30pm-6:00pm
Tsai Auditorium / CGIS South Building / 1730 Cambridge Street

Speakers: Jeffrey Kopstein / Nazita Lajevardi / Kassra AR Oskooii / Sabine von Mering

Chair: Eric Beerbohm

Moderator:  Melani Cammett

Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism &amp; Islamophobia

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