Watch the event webcast recording here.   Derek Penslar is a comparative historian with interests in the relationship between modem Israel and diaspora Jewish societies, global nationalist movements, and post-colonial states. A native of California, he has taught at the University of Toronto since 1998, where he holds the Samuel Zacks Chair in Jewish history. He also holds the Stanley Lewis Chair in Modem Israel Studies at Oxford,...

  Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of International Organization. Among his books are Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (with Martha Finnemore), Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda, and Empire of Humanity: A History of...

  Watch the event webcast recording here. Mr Gorenberg is the author of The Unmaking of Israel (Harper Collins 2011), a provocative examination of Israeli history that describes the crisis of Israeli democracy and lays out a vision for the country’s future. “Until I read The Unmaking of Israel,” says novelist Michael Chabon, “I didn’t think it could be possible to feel more despairing, and then more terribly hopeful, about Israel.” His...

This event, which is the second of our four Bronfman Debates on the Future of Israel @ the Munk School, will focus on the future of Israeli democracy. It is no secret, or it should not be, that the condition of democracy in Israel has eroded in the last years, not only due to the stalemate of the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, but primarily due to a move in recent years from liberal democracy and institutions to a...

This event, which was the first of four “Bronfman Debates on the Future of Israel @ the Munk School,” focused on the two-state solution and one of its alternatives, an Israeli-Palestinian Confederation. With the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rapidly becoming more difficult, if not impossible, there is a growing urgency and need to think outside the box about how to bring about peaceful coexistence between Israelis and...