About Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel
Aim and Scope
The UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies is dedicated to bridging the gap between academia and the general public. We want to make current scholarship about Israel on a wide range of topics accessible to the public and give scholars of Israel—especially younger scholars—a public platform to share their research and analyses with a wide audience. To that end, the center’s publication, Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel offers timely, research-based analysis of important contemporary issues, trends, and dynamics in Israel. Covering Israel’s society, politics, economy, and culture, Currents aims to disseminate scholarly expertise, cutting-edge research, and innovative analyses of Israel to a wide audience.
Focusing on analyses (rather than reviews) of present (rather than historic) affairs, Currents essays engage with the central issues on Israel’s agenda. Each essay approaches an issue from a theoretical, comparative, or historical perspective to offer scholarly insights on current developments.
Why contribute to Currents?
The briefs are an opportunity for scholars to showcase their research and apply it to offer fresh, new insights on Israel. Longer than an Op-Ed and shorter than an academic journal article, the briefs allow scholars to draw upon their expertise to address topical issues, and to share their research with a wider audience beyond the academy. Scholars based in Israel will have an opportunity to write for an English-language publication and thereby reach a larger audience and increase awareness of their research.
Who reads Currents?
Currents’ audience is comprised of Israel Studies scholars, journalists, and members of the general public who want to learn about various aspects of Israel from a reliable and research-based source.
How does it work?
Currents is a bi-annual publication that is freely available as a PDF download. Each issue is an essay (between 3000-5000 words), with an abstract (up to 150 words), and brief endnotes. Contributions to Currents are solicited by the editorial team and will be reviewed internally. Each issue is assigned a citable DOI.
For submissions, queries, and more information, contact Dr. Liron Lavi: laviliron@ucla.edu
Editor-in-Chief
Dov Waxman
University of California, Los Angeles
Managing Editor
Liron Lavi
University of California, Los Angeles
Editorial Board
Norman Abrams
University of California, Los Angeles
Shira Efron
RAND Corporation
Stuart Gabriel
University of California, Los Angeles
Ayelet Harel-Shalev
Ben-Gurion University
Mark Kligman
University of California, Los Angeles
David Menashri
Tel Aviv University
Steven Spiegel
University of California, Los Angeles
Asher Susser
Tel Aviv University