University of Tehran Published jointly with Iranian World Studies Association Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies 2588-3119 3 2 2019 04 01 Israel Advocacy in the Academic Field: The Case of Terrorism Studies 409 444 74963 10.22059/wsps.2020.286488.1111 EN Elham Kadkhodaee Assistant Professor of West Asian Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2019 01 03 Research on the special relationship between the United States and Israel has usually been focused on strategic aspects, whilst fewer scholars have focused on non-material dimensions of the relationship. In addition, the existing research is mostly confined to the political and decision-making realms, with very few excursions into the academic arena. The current article aims to fill this lacuna through the study of pro-Israel academic discourse in America, focusing on the specific case of the field of terrorism studies. Critical discourse analysis of pro-Israel academic texts in this field is carried out to reveal the discourse, themes and arguments used to build this ideational pillar of the special relationship and move towards a common identity between the US and Israel. The common ingroup identity model (CIIM) is used to describe the process through which a common identity is constructed. The article concludes that defining the Self, defining the Other, and defining the norms are the three main strategies employed in the studied texts to achieve this goal. https://wsps.ut.ac.ir/article_74963_28242fcff9089545b697da25eae0617f.pdf