Prof. Asif Efrat

Contemplating Conquest: Public Opinion on the Forcible Seizure of Territory (with Amnon Cavari and Omer Yair), PS: Political Science & Politics

Conspiracy Thinking and Belief in Partisan Conspiracy Theories: A Moderating Effect of Partisan Congruence? (with Omer Yair, Shira Hebel-Sela, and Amnon Cavari), Political Psychology 47:2 (2026), e70131

Polarized Public Agenda in Times of Crisis (with Amnon Cavari), Journal of European Public Policy 33:1 (2026), 159-188

Do International Rankings Affect Public Opinion? (with Amnon Cavari and Omer Yair), British Journal of Politics and International Relations 27:1 (2025), 349-368

Foreign Agents? Public Attitudes toward NGOs in a Backsliding Democracy (with Omer Yair), Political Studies 73:1 (2025), 218-239

Conspiracy Thinking and Electoral Trust during Tumultuous Times: The Case of Israel (with Omer Yair and Amnon Cavari), International Journal of Public Opinion Research 36:2 (2024), edae014

Should We Sell Arms to Human Rights Violators? What the Public Thinks" (with Omer Yair), Defence and Peace Economics 35:6 (2024), 694-712

Intolerant Justice: Conflict and Cooperation on Transnational Litigation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023

International Rankings and Public Opinion: Compliance, Dismissal, or Backlash? (with Omer Yair), Review of International Organizations 18:4 (2023), 607-629

How Alive is the Anti-Death Penalty Norm? Evidence from the British and French Treatment of ISIS Foreign Fighters (with Daphne Richemond-Barak). Journal of Global Security Studies 8:1 (2023), ogac030

How to Handle Offending Troops Abroad: The U.S. Military’s Legal Strategy during the Cold War, Armed Forces and Society 49:2 (2023), 489-506

"Facing U.S. Extraterritorial Pressure: American Troops in Foreign Courts during the Cold War," Journal of Politics 84:1 (2020), 242-257.

Troop Crime in Peacetime: Criminality and Accountability of U.S. Troops Worldwide during the Cold War," Armed Forces & Society 48:3 (2022): 657-678"

"Defending Core Values: Human Rights and the Extradition of Fugitives" (with Abraham Newman), Journal of Peace Research 57:4 (2020), 581-596.

"Intolerant Justice: Ethnocentrism and Transnational-Litigation Frameworks" (with Abraham Newman), Review of International Organizations 15:1 (2020), 271-299.

"Assessing Mutual Trust among EU Members: Evidence from the European Arrest Warrant," Journal of European Public Policy 26:5 (2019), 656-675.

"Cultural Intolerance and Aversion to Foreign Judgments in the American States" (with Abraham Newman), Asian Journal of Law and Economics 9:2 (2018), 1-15.

"Value-free Extradition? Human Rights and the Dilemma of Surrendering Wanted Persons to China" (with Marcello Tomasina), Journal of Human Rights 17:5 (2018), 605-621.

"Divulging Data: Domestic Determinants of International Information Sharing" (with Abraham Newman), Review of International Organizations 13:3 (2018), 395-419.

"Resisting Cooperation against Crime: Britain's Extradition Controversy, 2003-2015," International Journal of Law, Crime, and Justice 52:1 (2018), 118-128.

"Legal Traditions and Nonbinding Commitments: Evidence from the UN's Model Commercial Legislation," International Studies Quarterly 60:4 (2016), 624-635.

"Deciding to Defer: The Importance of Fairness in Resolving Transnational Jurisdictional Conflicts" (with Abraham Newman), International Organization 70:2 (2016), 409-441.

"Promoting Trade through Private Law: Explaining International Legal Harmonization," Review of International Organizations 11:3 (2016), 311-336.

"Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption" (with David Leblang, Steven Liao, and Sonal Pandya), International Studies Quarterly 59:3 (2015), 615-628.

"Professional Socialization and International Norms: Physicians against Organ Trafficking," European Journal of International Relations 21:3 (2015), 647-671.

"Do Human Rights Violations Hinder Counterterrorism Cooperation? Evidence from the FBI's Deployment Abroad," Review of International Organizations 10:3 (2015), 329-349.

"Global Efforts against Human Trafficking: The Misguided Conflation of Sex, Labor, and Organ Trafficking," International Studies Perspectives 17:1 (2016), 34-54.

"Cross-national Interviewing at International Conferences: How to Make the Most of a Unique Research Opportunity," International Studies Perspectives 16:3 (2015), 302-311.

"The Politics of Combating the Organ Trade: Lessons from the Israeli and Pakistani Experience," American Journal of Transplantation 13:7 (2013), 1650-1654 [Journal ranked no. 1 in transplantation and no. 2 in surgery].

"Combating the Kidney Commerce: Civil Society against Organ Trafficking in Pakistan and Israel," British Journal of Criminology 53:5 (2013), 764-783.

"The Rise and Decline of Israel's Participation in the Global Organ Trade: Causes and Lessons," Crime, Law and Social Change 60:1 (2013), 81-105.

Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder: International Cooperation against Illicit Trade. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012

"Getting Governments to Cooperate against Looting: Insights from the American and British Experience," Journal of Art Crime 8 (2012), 31-44.

"Toward Internationally Regulated Goods: Controlling the Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons," International Organization 64:1 (2010), 97-131.

"A Theory of Internationally Regulated Goods," Fordham International Law Journal 32:5 (2009), 1466-1523.

Protecting against Plunder: The United States and the International Efforts against Looting of Antiquities (2009). Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers.

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