Research Areas: Legitimacy & Legitimation in International Relations / Conflict Resolution, Populism in/and Foreign Policy, Regional Integration, Transnational Politics in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
 

 

 

Main Publications: 

Wajner, Daniel F., “Exploring the Foreign Policy of Populist Regimes: (Latin) America First,” Journal of International Relations and Development 24:3 (2021), 651–680.

Kacowicz, Arie M., Exequiel Lacowsky, Keren Sasson, & Daniel F. Wajner, Unintended Consequences of Peace? Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows (Cambridge University Press, July 2021).

Haftel, Yoram, Daniel F. Wajner, & Dan Eran, “The Short and Long(er) of It: The Effect of Hard Times on Regional Institutionalization,” International Studies Quarterly (2020), 808–820.

Kacowicz, Arie M., Exequiel Lacowsky, & Daniel F. Wajner, “Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows in the Americas,” Latin American Research Review 55:4 (2020), 727–741.

Wajner, Daniel F. “‘Battling’ for Legitimacy: Analyzing Performative Contests in the ‘Gaza Flotilla’ Paradigmatic Case”. International Studies Quarterly 63:4 (2019), 1035–1050.

Wajner, Daniel F. “Learning for Legitimacy: The Gaza Flotilla Case of Meaningful Learning in Foreign-Policy Strategic Planning.” Foreign Policy Analysis 15:4 (2019), 548–569.

Wajner, Daniel F. and Luis Roniger, “Transnational Identity Politics in the Americas: Reshaping ‘Nuestramerica’ as Chavismo’s regional legitimation strategy”. Latin American Research Review 54:2 (2019), 458–475.

Wajner, Daniel F. and Arie M. Kacowicz, “The Quest for Regional Legitimation: Analyzing the Arab League’s legitimizing role in the Arab Spring”. Regional and Federal Studies 28:3 (2018), 489–521.

Wajner, Daniel F., “Grassroots Diplomacy in Battles for Legitimacy: The Transnational Advocacy Network for the Brazilian Recognition of the Palestinian State”, Diplomacy and Statecraft 18:1 (2017), 128–51.