International Relations PhD student at the Hebrew University.
Joined November 2021
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When diplomacy becomes personal🤝
A new LSE piece examines Trump’s repeated calls to pardon Netanyahu as a case study in how leaders use personal positioning as a diplomatic tool and how President Herzog responded by turning to institutional language⬇️
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…
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Gadi Heimann, @RoniBerkowitz and @ZoharKampf of @HebrewU write on how Donald Trump has tried to make diplomacy personal blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…
When Trump decided to make it personal - our @gadiheiman @ZoharKampf new piece in @LSEUSAblog looks at how leaders switch between institutional and personal voices to pressure (or resist) each other.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…
New publication 🎉
Are diplomats just state mouthpieces? Not quite.
In our new @RIS_Journal paper, we show how diplomats navigate the personal/national boundary.
Using Goffman’s Footing, we trace a spectrum of agency in diplomatic interaction.
Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S02602105261…
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A new article by @gadiheiman , @ZoharKampf , and @RoniBerkowitz examine how diplomats’ personal agency comes through in real diplomatic interaction, offering a closer look at diplomacy as it unfolds in real time.
Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S02602105261…
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🚨New First View Article🚨
"Between the national and the personal: The interactional production of agency in diplomacy" by Roni Berkowitz , Gadi Heimann & Zohar Kampf is now available online on the RIS website. Have a read!
📄 ➡️ buff.ly/nWOedwN
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We published SIX new research articles and the first issue of volume 52 in February! An excellent way to start the year. Reminder that ALL our latest articles are online first: buff.ly/9uj6xnX
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Read what @RoniBerkowitz and I had to say about DeepSeek and the stir it caused, calling for an examination of the broader politicization of LLMs - beyond China and beyond outputs
China’s DeepSeek isn’t just about censorship. 🤖
It shows how politics shape AI at every stage — from training data to chips, talent, and geopolitics.
⬇️Read Here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/cff/2025/08/…
#AI #DeepSeek #Geopolitics
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הרבה רעש היה בזמן האחרון סביב מודל השפה שהשיקה חברת DeepSeek, והאופן שבו הוא משקף הטיה פוליטית וצנזורה סינית. מוזמנים ומוזמנות לקרוא את הבלוג שכתבו תלמידות דוקטורט שלנו, רוני ברקוביץ ויעל רם, אשר מסביר מדוע מודלים כאלה הם פוליטיים בכמה וכמה רמות. ולא, זו לא רק המצאה של הסינים...
China’s DeepSeek isn’t just about censorship. 🤖
It shows how politics shape AI at every stage — from training data to chips, talent, and geopolitics.
⬇️Read Here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/cff/2025/08/…
#AI #DeepSeek #Geopolitics
Excited to share my new blog post with @YaelRam15 for China Dialogues at @lseideas.
We explore LLM politics and how China’s DeepSeek model challenges the myth of “technical neutrality” 👇
blogs.lse.ac.uk/cff/2025/08/…
China’s DeepSeek isn’t just about censorship. 🤖
It shows how politics shape AI at every stage — from training data to chips, talent, and geopolitics.
⬇️Read Here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/cff/2025/08/…
#AI #DeepSeek #Geopolitics
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Release Announcement!📢💣
🥁🎷JASCO 🎶🪇 training & inference code + model weights are out!
Paper📜: arxiv.org/abs/2406.10970
Samples🔊: pages.cs.huji.ac.il/adiyoss-…
Code🐍: github.com/facebookresearch/…
Models🤗: huggingface.co/facebook/jasc…
@lonziks @itai_gat @FelixKreuk @adiyossLC
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NEW PUBLICATION
Authored with @PressBarnathan
In @CSP_journal - We tell the story of China’s participation in the World Bank, arguing that as the development finance regime complex changed, it affected the stability of China’s cooptation deal in the Bank.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Recently returned from the #EISAPEC2024, Grateful for the insightful discussions on:
1️⃣ The Multidimensional Meaning of the "China Threat" concept.
2️⃣ Media Control and Dynamics in Popular Culture Importations in China.
📸Tackling my fear of public speaking, one step at a time.
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression 🤝 In our new study “Performing good diplomatic relations”, @ZoharKampf @gadiheiman and me, explore how diplomats navigate their first encounters with the president. Check out the full article: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
This builds on our earlier study, "Communicating through Protocols," where we examined the creative ways in which interpersonal relations are cultivated within the highly regulated environment of diplomatic ceremonies: academic.oup.com/ips/article…
🎉I'm incredibly honored to receive the Carmon Award for outstanding research in IR, security, and the Middle East for my work on the Chinese threat narrative in the Israeli context. Many thanks to the committee for this recognition! 🙏
@HebrewU @LeonardDavisIns
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Thrilled to share that @roniberkowitz and I have been awarded the Pratt Prize in International Relations at @HebrewU for our research on how conflict-related sexual violence is portrayed and used online by state actors, focusing on the war in Ukraine.
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Today we released JASCO 🥁🎵🪇!
JASCO uses time-aligned conditions (e.g. drums, melody) as guiding controls for text-to-music generation.
📜Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.10970
🔊Samples: pages.cs.huji.ac.il/adiyoss-…
@lonziks @itai_gat @FelixKreuk @adiyossLC
Stay tuned for updates.
Even within the rigid structures of diplomatic protocols, diplomats wield creativity to convey positive signals. These findings highlight the importance of interpersonal relationships in diplomatic settings and call for a deeper examination of these dynamics in global politics.
🧐To what extent interpersonal efforts to build relations are pervasive in international politics?
🤙If you are interested in the micropolitical descriptions of elite actors in diplomatic interactions, take a look!
✍️@RoniBerkowitz Heimann & Kampf
academic.oup.com/ips/article…
Thrilled to share that my first article, a result of 2 years of ethnographic work at the President's Residence, has been published! Huge thanks to @ZoharKampf and @gadiheiman for their incredible support and collaboration. A peek into diplomatic relations-shorturl.at/32pKb
Learn more about the ongoing research project on our website friendsandfoes.huji.ac.il/
