Dr Nir Arielli
- Position: Associate Professor of International History
- Areas of expertise: Transnational war volunteers; the Arab-Israeli conflict; international relations in Europe and the Middle East, 1919-1948; the foreign and colonial policies of Fascist Italy; history of the Dead Sea
- Email: N.Arielli@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 0227
- Website: academia.edu
Research interests
My research thus far has focused on:
- The history of foreign war volunteering and foreign fighters
- Transnational military mobilization from the French Revolution to the present
- Pre-1948 Palestine and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
- The foreign and colonial policies of Fascist Italy
Key Publications
Books:
From Byron to Bin Laden A History of Foreign War Volunteers (Harvard University Press, 2018)
Leah Trachtman-Palchan, Between Tel Aviv and Moscow A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union, edited by Nir Arielli (I. B. Tauris, 2015)
Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins, Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era (Palgrave, 2012)
Fascist Italy and the Middle East, 1933 - 40 (Palgrave, 2010)
Articles:
‘Colonial soldiers in Italian counter-insurgency operations in Libya, 1922-32’, British Journal for Military History, 1.2 (2015), 47-66
‘When are foreign volunteers useful? Israel's transnational soldiers in the war of 1948 re-examined’, Journal of Military History, 78.2 (2014), 703-724
‘In search for meaning: foreign volunteers in the Croatian armed forces, 1991 - 1995’, Contemporary European History, 21.1 (2012), 1-17
‘Induced to volunteer? The predicament of Jewish Communists in Palestine and the Spanish Civil War’, Journal of Contemporary History, 46.4 (2011)
‘“Haifa is still burning”: Italian, German and French air raids on Palestine during the Second World War’, Middle Eastern Studies, 46.3 (2010), 331-347
Current Research
My current research project examines the human history of the Dead Sea
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