Prof. Asif Efrat

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Prof. Asif Efrat

Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy Ph.D., Harvard University

Head of the MA Thesis track and Head of MA Program

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Research and Teaching Expertise

Diplomacy
International Relations
International Law

Asif Efrat is a professor at the Lauder School of Government. He earned an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Asif's research and teaching interests include international relations, international law, and transnational crime. He also studies international influences on public opinion, especially in times of democratic backsliding. Asif's first book, published by Oxford University Press, examines international cooperation against illicit trade: the illicit arms trade, the trade in looted antiquities, and human trafficking. His second book, published by Oxford, analyzes the political conflicts over transnational litigation. Asif's work has appeared in International Organization, the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the European Journal of International Relations, and the American Journal of Transplantation, among others. Prior to joining Reichman University, Asif taught at Cornell Law School.

Asif Efrat's Office: 309 Lauder Building
Foreign Agents? Public Attitudes toward Nongovernmental Organizations in a Backsliding Democracy (with Omer Yair), Political Studies

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

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

Do International Rankings Affect Public Opinion? (with Amnon Cavari and Omer Yair), British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Should We Sell Arms to Human Rights Violators? What the Public Thinks (with Omer Yair), Defence and Peace Economics

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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