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Guy Ben-Porat

CURRICULM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Personal Details

Name Guy Ben-Porat

Date and Place of Birth September 19, 1967, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Work Address Department of Politics and Government, Ben-

Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva

84105, Israel.

e-mail: [email protected]

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

2016 - Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-

Gurion University

2013 – 2016 Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and

Administration, The Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-

Gurion University.

Summer 2013 Visiting Scholar, Sciences Po. Paris, France.

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

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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

University

1997-1999 Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of

Political Science, Johns Hopkins University.

1997-1999 Research Assistant, United States Institute of Peace, Washington

DC.

1993-1997 Journalist, "H'Air", Tel-Aviv

Professional Activities

(a) Positions in academic administration

2013 - 2016 Chair, Department of Public Policy and Administration

2012 - 2016 Chair, Faculty Research Students committee

2011 – 2013 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

2016 – Editor, Book Series “Multiculturalism and Public Policy” Routledge

2015 - International Advisory Board, Mediterranean Politics

2014 – Editorial Board, Secularism and non-Religion

2013 - 2014 Research Group Director, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, “Policing

and Society”.

2009 – Present Assistant Editor Citizenship Studies

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2004 – Present Research Fellow, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem

2010 - 2013 Academic Advisor, Abraham Fund Initiatives Arab Society –

Police Relations Initiative

2012 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 - Research Fellow, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

(e) Membership in professional/scientific societies

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International Studies Association

European Consortium of Political Research

European International Studies Association

Israeli Political Science Association

(f) Reviewer

Comparative Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Citizenship studies, Religion

and Politics, 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

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"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)

2016 Irit Harbon Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi)

2014 Einat Zamwel Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University (with Orna Sasson-Levy)

2016 Hanan Magal, MA, Ben-Gurion University

2016 Hadar Gdalia, MA, Ben-Gurion University

In Process Adina Rothman, MA, Ben-Gurion University

In Process Yael Shmariahu, MA, Ben-Gurion University

In Process Ofir Abu (Dr.) Post-Doc (with Fany Yuval)

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In Process Michal Strier Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Haggai Katz)

In Process Assaf Malchi, Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University

In Process Yair Yassan, Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University

Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships

2016 Faculty Teaching Award

2015 University Teaching Award

2014 University Teaching Award

2014 Yonatan Shaphiro Award for best book in Israeli Studies

2014 Israeli Political Science Association Award for best book

published in 2013

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

(a) Authored Books

Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, Global Liberalism, Local Populism: peace and conflict in

Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, Syracuse University Press. (winner of the

Czempiel Prize, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, 2008).

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. (Winner of the Shapiro Best Book

Award, Israel Studies Association, 2014; and the Israeli Political Science

Association Best Book Award, 2014).

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Guy Ben-Porat, 2016 In Practice: the Secularization of Contemporary Israel,

Pardes Press (Hebrew).

(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.), 2014. Boundaries,

Identities and Changing Categories in Israelis Society, Jerusalem: Van-Leer

(Hebrew).

Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat. 2013. Special Issue Mediterranean Politics.

Uri Gopher and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.) 2013 Policing Minorities Pardes

Press (Hebrew)

Bashir Bashir, Guy Ben-Porat and Yossi Yona (eds.). 2016. Multiculturalism and

Public Policy (Hebrew), Van-Leer

(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

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

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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, 2014, “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, 2014, “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, 2016, “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:

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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

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

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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 2014 "Unpacking Secularization"

forthcoming, Ethnicities 14 (1): 91-112 Q1

29. Guy Ben-Porat 2013 “Are We There Yet? Religion, secularization

and Liberal Democracy in Israel” Mediterranean Politics 18 (2): 242-258.

30. Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat 2013 “Religion, secularization and

democracy in the Mediterranean region: Problems and prospects”

Mediterranean Politics. 18 (2): 153-169.

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31. Einat Zamwell, Orna Sasson-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat. 2014. “Voluntary

simplifiers as political consumers: Individuals practicing politics through reduced

consumption.” Journal of Consumer Culture 14(2): 199-217.

32. Guy Ben-Porat, Omri Shamir and Fany Yuval "Value for Money:

Political Consumerism in Israel." Forthcoming Journal of Consumer

Culture.

33. Ofir Abu, Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval "Race, Racism and

Policing: Responses of Ethiopian Jews in Israel to Stigmatization by the

Police.” Forthcoming Ethnicities.

(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.

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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.

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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

31. Guy Ben-Porat 2014 “Good Cops, Bad Cops? Prospects for Police Reform”,

Presented in the ECPR Joint Sessions Salamanca 2014

(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.

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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.

2013 “Jewish, Democratic and Secular?” Presented at the University of Rome,

Tore Vergata.

2014 “One Nation Under God” Presented at the CERI, Sciences Po, Paris.

2016 “Secular or Religious? Dilemmas of a Jewish Democracy” Presented at

the John Cabbot University, Rome.

Research Grants

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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 multi-

ethnic 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

2011 Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval Israel Science Foundation “Policing and

Minorities” $110,000 3 years

2012 Guy Ben-Porat, Avital Mentovich (UCLA) and Tom Taylor (Yale)

“Policing Divided Cities”, Russel Sage, 40,000$

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.

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Looking at Israel and elsewhere I am interested to learn how the changes of a

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 ethno-

cultural 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. This research

continues with an extensive study of Israeli police (ISF grant) and a comparative

study of policing in Israel and the US (Russel Sage grant).

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.