Watch the event webcast recording here.   Professor Yossi Shain is the Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University where he also serves as Head of TAU’s School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, head of the Abba Eban Graduate Studies Program in Diplomacy and Director of the Frances Brody Institute for Applied Diplomacy. He is also a Full Professor of Comparative Government...

  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...