Guy Ben-PoratJuly 2013
CURRICULM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Personal Details
NameGuy Ben-Porat
Date and Place of BirthSeptember 19, 1967, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Work Address Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-
Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva
84105, Israel. Tel. 972-8-6472100
e-mail:
Home Address 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
2001-2007Lecturer, Department of Public Policy and Administration, The
Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion University.
2005-present Lecturer, Air Force Academy, BGU
1999-2003Adjunct Faculty, Sapir College
1999-2002Adjunct Faculty, Department of Political Science, Tel-Aviv
University
1997-1999Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of
Political Science, Johns Hopkins University.
1997-1999Research Assistant, United States Institute of Peace, Washington
DC.
1993-1997Journalist, "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
2003-2008Teaching 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 Assistant EditorCitizenship Studies
2010 - 2013 Academic Advisor, Abraham FundInitiatives 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.
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
“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
(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 Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi)
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)
Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships
2008 Ernest-Otto Czempiel Prize, Frankfurt Peace Institute, Best Book
of Peace Research, 5000 EU
2006Israeli Political Science Association, honorable mention for best
book published in English.
2004Israeli Political Science Association, representative article for
Encounters: Political Science in translation.
2001-2002Tel-Aviv University, 10,000$, Post-doc fellowship
1996-2000Johns Hopkins University, 128,000$, Ph.D. scholarship
Scientific Publications
*since last promotion
(a)Authored Books
Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, Global Liberalism, Local Populism: peace and conflict in 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 andGuy 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 CitizenshipRoutledge/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
*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
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" Encounters1 (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 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): 307-321Q1
*18. Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner 2008 "Contemporary Dilemmas of Israeli Citizenship", 2008, Citizenship Studies12(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): 838-857Q1
*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, EthnicitiesQ1
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.
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 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, 9thMediterranean 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, 11thMediterranean 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, 13thMediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting