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Professor Dov H. LEVIN 杜拉文
Professor Dov H. Levin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2016-2018 he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Professor Levin’s main current research project is on the causes, effects, and effectiveness of partisan electoral interventions/foreign election interference, a topic on which he has published multiple scholarly articles and a new book at Oxford University Press. 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, strategic public diplomacy, alliances, and the regional causes of war and peace. Recent teaching interests include U.S. foreign policy, military and non-military foreign interventions, IR theory, and terrorism. For further information see his research website at www.dovhlevin.com
- Phone: 3917 1908
- E-mail: dovlvnhku.hk
- Office: C936
- https://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp02413
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)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/meddling-in-the-ballot-box-9780197519882?cc=hk&lang=en&
https://www.amazon.com/Meddling-Ballot-Box-Electoral-Interventions/dp/0197519881
Winner 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
- 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
- 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): 816-834https://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 Interactions 47(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 Violence 32(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 Studies 4(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 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)