He received his PhD in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was subsequently a Fulbright Scholar and a lecturer at NYU and Princeton University. Abulof studies political legitimation and violence, focusing on nationalism, democratization, nuclear proliferation, revolutions and ethnic conflicts in the Middle East, Canada, and South Africa. His first book Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (forthcoming from Haifa University Press) received Israel’s 2012 best academic book award (Bahat Prize). He recently completed his second book, The Mortality and Morality of Nations (fothcoming, Cambridge University Press).