Full-time Faculty members
Academic Interests:
Partisan electoral interventions, strategic public diplomacy, differences in foreign policy preferences between western and non-western publics, foreign interventions, strategic interaction
Professor Dov H. LEVIN 杜拉文
Associate Professor
Deputy Chairman, Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee (DRPC)
Academic Interests:
Partisan electoral interventions, strategic public diplomacy, differences in foreign policy preferences between western and non-western publics, foreign interventions, strategic interaction
Dov H. Levin is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Professor Levin’s research focuses mainly on two topics. The first is on partisan electoral interventions (foreign election interference). The second is on strategic public diplomacy. Other current and past research interests include, for example, military and non-military foreign interventions, differences in foreign policy preferences between western and non-western publics, alliances, and the regional causes of war and peace. Recent teaching interests include U.S. foreign policy, military and non-military foreign interventions, U.S. politics, and IR theory.
Books
- Dov H. Levin Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions(New York: Oxford University Press, hardcover & paperback 2020)
1. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/meddling-in-the-ballot-box-9780197519882?cc=hk&lang=en&2. https://www.amazon.com/Meddling-Ballot-Box-Electoral-Interventions/dp/0197519881Winner Robert Jervis & Paul Schroeder Best Book Award for 2021 by the American Political Science Association.
Winner Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output Award for Basic Research 2020-21
Articles
- Dov H. Levin “Introducing PEIG 2.0: 69 years of partisan electoral interventions” Conflict Management and Peace Science first view: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07388942241279969
- Wilfred Chow and Dov H. Levin(alphabetical listing) 2024. “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism and US Foreign Policy Attitudes” International Organization 78(1): 103-133.:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/diplomacy-of-whataboutism-and-us-foreign-policy-attitudes/9A6AAD756ED297D4EBB9E8E8B1B92ABE#article. Piece in Foreign Affairs written on findings in article (invited) https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/why-whataboutism-works
- Dov H. Levin 2023. “Is Sunlight the Best Counterintelligence Technique? The Effectiveness of Covert Operation Exposure In Blunting the Russian Intervention In the 2020 US Election” Intelligence and National Security, 38(5): 816-834:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2023.2181923?journalCode=fint20
- Dov H. Levin and Paul Musgrave 2022. “The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad”Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(5): 828-857:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027221120374
- Dov H. Levin & Tetsuro Kobayashi 2022. “The Art of Uncommitment: the costs of peacetime withdrawals from alliance commitments” European Journal of International Relations 28(3): 589-615:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540661221098221
- Dov H. Levin 2021 “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Partisan Electoral Interventions, Foreign Policy Compliance, and Voting in the U.N.” International Interactions47(3): 449-476:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050629.2021.1865946
- Dov H. Levin “Voting for Trouble? Partisan Electoral Interventions and Terrorism”, Terrorism and Political Violence32(3) (2020):489-505:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2017.1383243
- Dov H. Levin & Robert Trager “Things you can see from there you can’t see from here: Blind Spots in the American Perspective in IR and their Effects” Journal of Global Security Studies4(3) (2019): 345–357: https://academic.oup.com/jogss/article-abstract/4/3/345/5519515?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- Dov H. Levin “A Vote for Freedom? The Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions on Regime Type”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(4) (2019):839–868:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022002718770507?journalCode=jcrb
- Dov H. Levin “Partisan Electoral Interventions by the Great Powers: Introducing the PEIG Dataset”, Conflict Management and Peace Science (2019) 36(1): 88–106:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0738894216661190
- Dov H. Levin “When the Great Power Gets A Vote: The Effects of Great Power Electoral Interventions on Election Results”, International Studies Quarterly,60(2) (2016):189-202:
http://isq.oxfordjournals.org/content/60/2/189
- Dov H. Levin & Benjamin Miller. “Why Great Powers Expand in their own Neighborhood: Explaining the Territorial Expansion of the US 1819-1848”, International Interactions, 37(3) (2011): 229-262: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050629.2011.594746#.UhvTOz-LXGk
- Dov H. Levin “Why Following the Rules Matters: The Customs of War and the Case of the Texas War of Independence”, Journal of Military Ethics, 7(2) (2008): 116-135.:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15027570802094606
Book Chapters and Reviews of Literature
- Dov H. Levin 2024 “Terrorism and Foreign Interference” in Max Abrahams 2024 The Routledge Companion to Terrorism Studies. New York: Routledge, 160-165: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Terrorism-Studies-New-Perspectives-and-Topics/Abrahms/p/book/9781032454443?srsltid=AfmBOoq-96ZVx6AaAVZ8zuBk-BSR75Mh3Bz-quoYgDkL8oJJ8HCfe7ly
- Dov H. Levin 2021. “Should We Worry about Partisan Electoral Interventions? The Nature, History, and Known Effects of Foreign Interference in Elections” in Duncan Hollis and Jens Ohlin. Defending Democracies: Combatting Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age. New York: Oxford University Press Ethics, National Security and the Rule of Law series:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/defending-democracies-9780197556979?cc=hk&lang=en&
- Dov H. Levin & Carmela Lutmar “Violent Regime Change: Causes and Consequences” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. (ISA Compendium project): (2020). https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-1954
- Dov H. Levin “The Prerequisites Matter: North America’s Transition to Regional Peace”, in Carmela Lutmar and Benjamin Miller (editors) 2015.:
Regional Peacemaking and Conflict Management: A Comparative Approach(Routledge Press)
