The U.S. and Israel in a Rapidly Changing Middle East
Dr. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Migdal was formerly an associate professor of Government at Harvard University and senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University. Among his books are Peasants, Politics, and Revolution; Palestinian Society and Politics; Strong Societies and Weak States; State in Society; Through the Lens of Israel; The Palestinian People: A History (with Baruch Kimmerling); and, Boundaries and Belonging....
read moreJoel Migdal Visits UofT
From October 20-30 2014, the University of Toronto and Department of Political Science welcomed Joel S. Migdal to teach a two week intensive course on ‘Israel in the Global Context’. Registration for this class closed on September 21, 2014 and was only available to current students at the University of Toronto. This course examined in depth four dimensions of Israeli society and politics in a comparative and international context. The first dimension involved the complex economics of Israel, including its move towards high-tech...
read moreThe Agenda with Steve Paikin: The Path to Peace
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process was meant to come to an end in April but the parties are nowhere close to reaching an agreement. The Agenda examines the obstacles blocking the path to peace in the Middle East with guests Diana Buttu and Emanuel Adler. This interview is from April 8, 2014.
read moreIs Jewish Critique Possible?
Eva Illouz is the author of 8 books, two of which have received competitive awards from the American Sociological Association, and have been translated in 15 languages. In 2004, she was invited to deliver the Adorno Lectures in Germany, and the outstanding Research Award by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a visiting professor at PrincetonUniversity and the EHESS, and a fellow at the Wissenshafkolleg in 2008-9. In 2009, Professor Illouz was chosen by the German weekly Die Zeit as one among 12 people “most likely to shape the...
read moreIsraeli Society 2013: Striving for Cohesion in the Midst of Chaos
Professor Manuel Trajtenberg serves since 2009 as Chairman of the Budgeting and Planning Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel, after being the (first) Head of the National Economic Council at the Prime Minister Office, and chief economic advisor to the Prime Minister during 2006-2009. Trajtenberg has been a Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University since 1984. He obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University, held visiting positions at Harvard and Stanford University, is a Research Associate of the NBER in Cambridge, USA,...
read moreIsrael’s Strategic Challenges 2014
Dr. Ariel Levite is a Nonresident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Earlier he has been the Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (2002-2007), a Visiting Fellow at CISAC, Stanford University (2000-2002), Deputy Israeli National Security Advisor (Defense Policy) (1999-2000), and Head of the Bureau of International Security at the Israeli MOD. Dr. Levite has published extensively on issues of strategy, military doctrine, deterrence, arms control, proliferation, and...
read moreHigh-Tech Power or Theocracy? Why Israel Is Difficult To Understand (even to Israelis)
Carlo Strenger is an existential psychoanalyst, philosopher and public intellectual. He teaches at the School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, serves on the Terrorism Panel of the World Federation of Scientists, the scientific board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna and the Seminar for Existential Psychoanalysis in Zurich in addition to maintaining a part-time Private Practice in Psychotherapy. In the last decade his research focuses on the impact of globalisation on meaning systems, personal and group identity. He has...
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