Guy Ben-Porat
July 2013
CURRICULM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Personal Details
Name
Date and Place of Birth
Work Address
e-mail:
Home Address
Guy Ben-Porat
September 19, 1967, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Department of Public Policy and Administration, BenGurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva
84105, Israel. Tel. 972-8-6472100
gbp@som.bgu.ac.il
Ein Ofarim 10, Lehavim 85338, Israel, Tel. 972-77-4280710
Education
B.A.
1990-1994, Tel-Aviv University, Political Science and
Psychology
Ph.D.
1996-2001, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science,
Advisors: Giovanni Arrighi and Siba Grovogui, Thesis: “Globalization,
Peace, and Discontent: Israel and Northern Ireland”
Employment History
2013 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and
Administration, The Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion
University.
2007-2013 Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Policy and Administration,
The Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion
University.
Summer 2011 Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University
2008-2009
Visiting Fellow, Political Science and Jewish Studies,
University of California, Davis
2001-2007
Lecturer, Department of Public Policy and Administration, The
Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion University.
2005-present Lecturer, Air Force Academy, BGU
1999-2003
Adjunct Faculty, Sapir College
1999-2002
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Political Science, Tel-Aviv
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1997-1999
1997-1999
1993-1997
University
Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of
Political Science, Johns Hopkins University.
Research Assistant, United States Institute of Peace, Washington
DC.
Journalist, "H'Air", Tel-Aviv
Professional Activities
(a) Positions in academic administration
2012 -
Chair, Faculty Research Student committee
2011 –
Academic Director, Atidim Program, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev
2004-2006
Director, Rich Foundation Program for Master Degree in Public
Policy and administration, Ben-Gurion University
2003-2008
Teaching Committee Chair, Department of Public
Policy and administration, Ben-Gurion University
August 2003: Coordinator, "Rich" International Workshop "Economic Growth
and Inequality", Department of Public Policy and Administration,
Ben-Gurion University.
(b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions
2013 - Research Group Director, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, “Policing and
Society”.
2009 – Present
2010 - 2013
Assistant Editor Citizenship Studies
Academic Advisor, Abraham Fund Initiatives Arab Society –
Police Relations Initiative
2012
2010 Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), Florence, Italy, 12th
Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting
2011
Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), St. Gallen, Switzerland, ECPR
Joint Sessions
2009-2011 Research Group Director, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, “Religion,
Economy and Secularization.
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2010 Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), Florence, Italy, 11th Mediterranean
Social and Political Research Meeting
2009 Academic Coordinator, Senior Police Officer Course "Policing Multicultural
and Multinational States", Israeli Police Academy
2008 Academic Coordinator, Senior Police Officer Course "Policing Multicultural
and Multinational States", Israeli Police Academy
2008 Workshop Director (with Manfred Brocker) Globalization, Religion and the
State: Between Conflict and Accommodation Catholic Academy, Berlin,
Germany
2008 Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), Florence, Italy, 9th Mediterranean
Social and Political Research Meeting
2007-2009 Research Group director (with Yossi Yona and Bashir Bashir),
"Multiculturalism and public policy" Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem.
2006 Workshop director (with Eiki Berg), Florence, Italy, 7th Mediterranean
Social and Political Research Meeting
2005 Coordinator, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, International workshop:
Implementing peace agreements – Israel/Palestine, South Africa and
Northern Ireland
2004-present Research Fellow, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem.
(e)
Membership in professional/scientific societies
International Studies Association
European Consortium of Political Research
Israeli Political Science Association
(f) Reviewer
Comparative Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Citizenship studies, Crime
and Delinquency, Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Van
Leer Press
Educational activities
(a) Courses taught
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“Diversity Management.” MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration,
Ben-Gurion University.
“Religion and Public Policy.” MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration,
Ben-Gurion University.
"Managing multiculturalism: lessons from the Canadian Model", MA, Department
of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University.
"Advanced Issues in Israeli Politics", MA, Department of Public Policy and
Administration, Ben-Gurion University.
"Globalization, State and Governance", MA, Department of Public Policy and
Administration, Ben-Gurion University.
"Conflict Resolution and The Governance of Societies in Conflict", MA,
Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University.
"International Interdependence", BA, Political Science, University of California
Davis
"Global Inequality", BA, Political Science, University of California Davis
"The Arab-Israeli Conflict", BA, Political Science, University of California Davis
"Conflict Resolution", BA, Political Science, University of California Davis
"History of Modern Israel", BA, UC Davis
"Introduction to Government and Politics", BA, Tel-Aviv University
"Comparative Politics", BA, Tel-Aviv University
"Globalization and the nation state", BA, Tel-Aviv University
"Introduction to International Relations", BA, Sapir College, (also, Interdisciplinary
Center, Ben-Gurion University.
“Homo-economicus, re-thinking Economic Rationality", BA, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem
"Governing Multi-Ethnic States", MA, Carleton University, Ottawa
"Topics in International Development and Globalization",
BA, University of Ottawa
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(b) Research Students
2006
Nissim Cohen
MA
Ben-Gurion University
2007
Omri Shamir
MA Ben-Gurion University
2008
Shmuel Nili
MA Open University
2011
Dan Gurfinkel MA Ben-Gurion University (with Fany Yuval)
2009
Rafik Haj
2011
Omri Shamir Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi)
In Process
Irit Harbon Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi)
In Process
Einat Zamwel Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University (with Orna Sasson-Levy)
In Process
Michal Strier Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Haggai Katz)
Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi)
Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships
2008
Ernest-Otto Czempiel Prize, Frankfurt Peace Institute, Best Book
of Peace Research, 5000 EU
2006
Israeli Political Science Association, honorable mention for best
book published in English.
2004
Israeli Political Science Association, representative article for
Encounters: Political Science in translation.
2001-2002
Tel-Aviv University, 10,000$, Post-doc fellowship
1996-2000
Johns Hopkins University, 128,000$, Ph.D. scholarship
Scientific Publications
*since last promotion
(a) Authored Books
Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, Global Liberalism, Local Populism: peace and conflict in
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Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, Syracuse University Press
*Guy Ben-Porat, Shlomo Mizrachi, Arye Naor and Erez Tzfadia, 2008, Israel
Since 1980, Cambridge University Press
*Guy Ben-Porat, 2013, Between State and Synagogue: The Secularization of
Modern Israel, Cambridge University Press
(b) Editorship of collective volumes
Guy Ben-Porat (ed.) 2008 The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?
Palgrave Press
Eiki Berg and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.) 2008 special issue Nations and Nationalism
14(1),
*Bryan Turner and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.), 2008, special issue Citizenship Studies,
Vol.12, No.3
*Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat, 2010, special issue Totalitarian Movements and
Political Religions 11, 2
*Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner (eds.), 2011 The Contradictions of Israeli
Citizenship: Land, Religion and State Routledge
*Zeev Shavit, Orna Saason-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.), forthcoming,
Boundaries, Identities and Changing Categories in Israelis Society, Jerusalem:
Van-Leer (Hebrew).
*Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat, forthcoming, special issue Mediterranean
Politics.
Uri Gopher and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.) 2013 Policing Minorities
(Hebrew), Pardes
(c) Chapters in Collective Volumes
Guy Ben-Porat 2004 "Business and Peace: The Rise and Fall of the New
Middle East" in Ram, U. and Filk D. (eds.) The Power of Property
Jerusalem: Van-Leer
*Guy Ben-Porat 2009 "Religion and Secularism in Israel: Between Politics and
Sub-Politics", In Jeff Haynes (ed.) Religion and Politics in Europe, the Middle
East and North Africa. Secularization, Democracy and Citizenship
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Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science.
*Guy Ben-Porat 2009 “Multicultural Realities” in Mitchel C. Bard and David
Nachmias (eds.) Israel Studies: An Ethnology Jewish Virtual Library Publications
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/isdf/text/anthologycvr.html
*Omri Shamir and Guy Ben-Porat 2010 "From the Parliament to the
Market: Political Consumerism and the Fight for Sabbath" in Lyn Thomas
and Kate Soper (eds.) Shopping at the shrine: Religion and Consumerism
UK: Palgrave.
*Ofir Abu, Fany Yuval and Guy Ben-Porat 2011 "All That is Left: The
Demise of the Zionist Left Parties 1992-2009" in Asher Arian and Michal
Shamir The Elections in Israel 2008, SUNY Press
*Guy Ben-Porat 2011 “Inward Turns: Citizenship, Solidarity and
Exclusion” in Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner (eds.), The
Contradictions of Israeli citizenship: Land, Religion and State Routledge
*Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner 2011 “Contemporary Dilemmas of Israeli
Citizenship” ” in Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner (eds.), The
Contradictions of Israeli citizenship: Land, Religion and State Routledge.
* Guy Ben-Porat 2012 “Politics and Political Leaders” in David Biale (ed.)
Oxford Bibliographies – Jewish Studies.
*Guy Ben-Porat, forthcoming, “Market Economy and Secularization: Eating Pork
in Israel” in Zeev Shavit, Orna Saason-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.),
forthcoming, Boundaries, Identities and Changing Categories in Israelis Society,
Jerusalem: Van-Leer (Hebrew).
*Orna Sasson-Levi, Guy Ben-Porat and Zeev Shavit, forthcoming,
“Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Israeli Identities in Israel” in Zeev Shavit,
Orna Saason-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.), forthcoming, Boundaries, Identities
and Changing Categories in Israelis Society, Jerusalem: Van-Leer (Hebrew).
*Guy Ben-Porat, forthcoming, “Secularization and Liberalism: Parallel Lines?” in
Yochi Fischer (ed.) Secularism and Secularization , Jerusalem: Van-Leer
(Hebrew).
(d) Refereed articles
1. Guy Ben-Porat 2000 “In a State of Holiness; Rethinking Israeli
Secularism” Alternatives 25 (2), pp.223-246 Q3
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2. Guy Ben-Porat 2003 “The Ingathering; State, Capital and Assimilation
of immigrants in Israel, 1948-1960." Immigrants and Minorities V.22,
No.1, March 2003, pp.63-82.
3. Guy Ben-Porat and Amir Ben-Porat 2004 "(Un)Bounded Soccer:
Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel" International
Review of the Sociology of Sport Vol.34, No.4, pp.421-436
4. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Same Old Middle East? The New Middle East
and the Double Movement" International Relations, 19 (1):.39-62. Q2
5. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Between Power and Hegemony: Business
Communities in Peace Processes" Review of International Studies 35 (2):
325-348. Q1
6. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Grounds for Peace: Territoriality and Conflict
Resolution" Geopolitics 10 (1): 147-166 Q2
7. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Business and Peace: The Rise and Fall of the
New Middle East" Encounters 1 (1). (Israeli Political Science Association,
representative article)
8. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Netanyhau's Second Coming: A
Neoconservative Policy Paradigm" Israel Studies 10 (3): 225-245
9. Guy Ben-Porat and Shlomo Mizrachi 2005 "Political Culture,
Alternative Politics and Foreign Policy: The Case of Israel" Policy
Sciences 38: 177-194 Q1
10. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Between Peace Dividends and Peace"
Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy 6 (2): 61-73
11. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, "Markets and Fences: Illusions of Peace"
Middle East Journal 60 (2): 311-328.
12. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, "Dollar Diplomacy: Globalization, Identity
Change and Peace" Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 12 (3-4):.455-480. Q2
13. Guy Ben-Porat and Fani Yuval, 2007 "Israeli Neoconservatism: Rise
and Fall?" Israel Studies Forum 22 (1): 3-26.
14. Omri Shamir and Guy Ben-Porat 2007 "Protecting the Sabbath –
religious consumerism and public policy" Contemporary Politics 13 (1):
75-92.
15. Guy Ben-Porat 2007 "Virtuous cycles, vicious cycles: Globalization
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and peace processes in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland" Dialogue
Vol. 1, No. 2
*16. Eiki Berg and Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Partition vs. Power-Sharing"
Nations and Nationalism 14(1), 29-37 Q1
*17. Guy Ben-Porat "We are Here, They are There: Partition and
exclusion in Israel/Palestine", 2008, Citizenship Studies 12(3): 307-321 Q1
*18. Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner 2008 "Contemporary Dilemmas of
Israeli Citizenship", 2008, Citizenship Studies 12(3): 195-201. Q1
*19. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Policing Multicultural States", Policing and
Society 18( 4): 411-425. Q1
*20. Nissim Cohen and Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Business Communities and
Peace: The Cost-Benefit Calculation of Political Involvement", Peace and
Change, 33(3): 426-446. Q4
*21. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "What does Football Teach us of Globalization
and Vice Versa" Politika (Hebrew)
*22. Guy Ben-Porat and Yariv Feniger 2009 "Live and Let Buy,
Consumerism, Secularization and Liberalism", Comparative Politics,
41(3): 293-313. Q1
*23. Guy Ben-Porat and Omri Shamir, 2012, "Days of (Un)Rest", Politics
and Religion, 5: 161-186.
*24. Haynes, Jeffrey and Guy Ben-Porat 2010 “Globalization, Religion and
Secularization: Different States, Same Trajectories?’ Totalitarian Movements and
Political Religions, 11( 2): 125–132.
*25. Guy Ben-Porat and Yariv Feniger 2012 “"It Takes Two for a Culture War"
Social Science Quarterly, 9(3): 838-857 Q1
*26. Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval 2012 "Minorities in Democracy and
Policing Policy: From Alienation to Cooperation", Policing and Society 22(2):
235-252
*27. Guy Ben-Porat, Fany Yuval and Shlomo Mizrahi. 2012. “Diversity
Management and the Role of the Police”, Policy Sciences 45 (3): 243-263 Q1
*28. Guy Ben-Porat and Yariv Feniger "Unpacking Secularization"
forthcoming, Ethnicities Q1
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29. Guy Ben-Porat 2013 “Are We There Yet? Religion, secularization and
Liberal Democracy in Israel” forthcoming Mediterranean Politics
30. Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat 2013 “Religion, secularization and
democracy in the Mediterranean region: Problems and prospects”
forthcoming Mediterranean Politics
Revise and Submit
Guy Ben-Porat, Omri Shamir and Fany Yuval "Value for Money:
Political Consumerism in Israel" Under Review Policy and Society
Guy Ben-Porat, Yossi Yona and Bashir Bashir (eds.) Multiculturalism and
Public Policy (Hebrew) Under Review, Van-Leer
Books and articles in Progress
Guy Ben-Porat, Carpe Diem: Secular Entrepreneurs in the Public Sphere
Book Manuscript (Hebrew), Under Review, Van-Leer.
(e) Unrefereed Professional Articles
Guy Ben-Porat 1998 “Beyond Peace; the search for security in the Middle
East”, Book Review, Shofar, July 1998
Guy Ben-Porat 2009 Review of Lev Grinberg: "Imaginary Peace, Talk of
War" Israeli Sociology, 10, 2, pp.473-476 (Hebrew)
Lectures and Presentations
(b) Presentation of papers at conferences and meetings
1. Guy Ben-Porat, 1998, “The Ingathering; State, Capital and Assimilation
in Israel, 1948-1960", presented at the Institute for Global Studies in
Culture Power and History, Johns Hopkins April,
2. Guy Ben-Porat, 1998, “The Ingathering; State, Capital and Assimilation
in Israel, 1948-1960", Association for Israeli Studies annual meeting,
Rutgers, June 1998
3. Guy Ben-Porat, 1999 “In a State of Holiness; Rethinking Israeli
Secularism”, Association for Israeli Studies annual meeting, Washington
DC.
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4. Guy Ben-Porat, 1999 “Salt of the Earth, the Nation-State and the
Politics of Nostalgia”, Nationalism, Identity and Minority Rights, Bristol
UK
5. Guy Ben-Porat, 2002 "Globalization, Peace and Discontent",
International Studies Assocaition, New Orleans, USA.
6. Guy Ben-Porat, 2002 "Virtuous cycles, Vicious Cycles, Globalization and
Peace Processes in Israel and Northern Ireland" CISS-ISA, Brugge.
7. Guy Ben-Porat, 2003 "Between Jewish and Democratic" European Consortium
for Political Research Joint Sessions, Edinburgh, Scotland.
8. Guy Ben-Porat, 2003 "The Same Old Middle East?" CISS/ISA, Budapest.
9. Guy Ben-Porat, 2004 "Exclusions, Inclusions and Public Policy" Israeli
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Beer-Sheva
10. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005 "Grounds for Peace in Resolving Territorial Conflicts: A
Comparison of Israel / Palestine and Northern Ireland", CROSSING CULTURES,
CROSSING DISCIPLINES, CROSSING SCALES, Van-Leer, Jerusalem.
11. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005, "Between the Market and the Temple: The Struggle
over Sabbath in Israel" 37th World Congress of the International Institute of
Sociology, Stockholm.
12. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005 "Religion, Capitalism and the Public sphere: the
Struggle over Sabbath in Israel" International Society for the Sociology of
Religion, Zagreb.
13. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005 "On the politics of diversity" Van Leer Entity Event:
Diversity, Identity and Empathy Jerusalem.
14. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006 "The neoconservative revolution" Contemporary
Capitalism International Workshop, Ben-Gurion University.
15. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, "Dollar diplomacy: globalisation, identity change and
peace" ITENIBA Conference, UCD Geary Institute, Dublin, Ireland.
16. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006 "We are Here, They are There: Partition and exclusion
in Israel/Palestine" Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting,
Florence, Italy.
17. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "The New Middle East, Lessons from Northern Ireland",
International Conference on the Links Between Economics and Security, The
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Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
18. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "Religion and Secularism in Israel: Between
Politicization and de-politicization" ECPR Joint Sessions, Helsinki 2007
19. Guy Ben-Porat 2007 "Secular but Illiberal?" Association for Israeli Studies,
Raanana, Israel.
20. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "Global Liberalism, Local Populism" Seventh
International CISS Millennium Conference Bucaco, Portugal.
21. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "De-nationalization, re-nationalization and the prospects
of peace" Beyond The Nation? Critical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in
Uncertain Times Belfast, UK
22. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "policing and the multicultural challenge" Immigration,
Minorities and Multiculturalism in Democracies Montreal, Canada
23. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Policing Multicultural States" Israel Association for
Canadian Studies Jerusalem, Israel
24. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Sub-Politics and Political Consumrism in Israel: The
case of the Struugle Over the Sabbath" Globalization, Religion and the State:
Between Conflict and Accommodation Catholic Academy, Berlin, Germany (with
Omri Shamir)
25. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "It takes two for a Culture War" Florence, Italy, 9th
Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting
26. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Global Liberalism, Local Populism", San Francisco,
CA, International Studies West Association Meeting.
27. Guy Ben-Porat and Omri Shamir 2010 " Days of (un) Rest: Political
Consumerism and the Struggle over the Sabbath", Florence, Italy, 11th
Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting.
28. Guy Ben-Porat 2010 “Policing Multicultural States” Northeastern Political
Science Association.
29. Guy Ben-Porat 2011 “Religion, Secularization and the State: re-negotiating
the Political” ECPR Joints Sessions, Switzerland.
30. Guy Ben-Porat 2012 “Are We There Yet? Secularization and Liberalization in
Contemporary Israel” Florence, Italy, 13th Mediterranean Social and Political
Research Meeting
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(d) Seminar presentations at universities and institutions
2003
"The Middle East and the Double Movement" Presented at the
Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
2006
"From the New Middle East to the Separation Wall, What Went Wrong?"
presented at Singapore Management University, Singapore.
2007
"Markets and Fences: Illusions of Peace?" Presented at Tartu University,
Estonia, May 2006
2007
"Peace Dividends, Lessons from the Middle East" presented at the Institut
Barcelona D'Estudias Internacionals (IBEI), October 2007.
2008
"Farewell to the New Middle East?", presented at the Orfalea Center,
University of California, Santa Barbara, December 2008.
2009
"Farewell to the New Middle East?", Levinson Lecture, San Jose State
University, California.
2009
"Global Liberalism, Local Populism", Presented at Northeastern
University, Boston.
2010
"Live and Let Buy, Consumerism, Secularization and Liberalism",
Presented at the London School of Economics and at the Middle East
Center, St. Anthony College, Oxford.
2010
"Israeli Secularization: Liberal and Illiberal Aspects" Presented at
Helsinki's People Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey.
2011
“Paths for Peace” Presented at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
2012
“Policing and Minorities”, presented at the University of Bologna, Italy
2013
“Between State and Synagogue” Presented at the Institute for Israel and
Jewish Studies and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life,
Columbia University
2013 “Between State and Synagogue” Presented at the Jewish Studies
Department, University of Illinois, Chicago
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Research Grants
2003
Guy Ben-Porat Israel Foundations Trustees, "When Saturday comes:
Commercial activities on Saturdays", $7500, 2 years.
2004
Guy Ben-Porat, Israeli Association for Canadian Studies, "Managing
multi-ethnic states",$4800, 1 year.
2006
Guy Ben-Porat, Israeli Association for Canadian Studies, "Policing multiethnic states", $4800, 1 year.
2006
Paul Saurette and Guy Ben-Porat (research collaborator) Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council Canada "The Rhizomatic Right: The
Philosophy and Discourse of the Right in North America",$ 25,000$, 4
years.
2006
Guy Ben-Porat Internal Grant, Ben-Gurion University "Israeli
Secularism: Sources and Resources", $4500
2007
Guy Ben-Porat Israel Science Foundation "Israeli Secularism: Sources and
Resources",$75,000, 3 years.
2008
Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval Abraham Fund "The Arab Minority and
the Israeli Police" $10,000, one year
2014 Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval Israel Science Foundation “Policing and
Minorities” $110,000 3 years
Synopsis of Research
My early research has focused on the peace processes in Israel and Northern
Ireland. The research, published in 2006 (Global Liberalism, Local Populism;
Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, Syracuse University
2006), examined the influence of globalization, and the social-economic changes
it entails, on peace processes in Israel and Northern Ireland. In 2008 the book was
awarded the Ernest-Otto Czempiel Prize from the Frankfurt Peace Institute, for
the Best Book of Peace Research.
My new research has shifted "inwards" to domestic policy making but continues
to explore the relations between economic changes, the politics of conflicts and
policy making. The first research I am currently engaged in examines the impact
of economic changes on church-state relations and existing arrangements.
Looking at Israel and elsewhere I am interested to learn how the changes of a
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market society influence the relations between religious and secular and what
possibilities are there for new policies and institutions that would prevent conflict.
The research that began in 2006 has yielded several publications and a book with
Cambridge University Press.
My second field of research concerns public policy in a multicultural state and
society. This research aims to study the role of institutions as causes for ethnocultural conflicts but also as potential response for the challenges raised by
linguistic, ethnic, religious and cultural differences that translate into a variety of
challenges that Israel and other states face. A preliminary research in Canada
allowed me to study questions of policing in multicultural societies. This research
is continued in Israel and involves work with the Israeli police.
Overall, I am interested on questions of institutions as tools of policy making and
their ability to reduce conflicts within states between cultural groups. In the next
years, therefore, I plan to develop my field of study in public policy by studying
the different relations between economic changes, globalization, multiculturalism
and secularization and their relation to policy making and to further develop
research and teaching methods in diversity management.
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