Prof. Benyamin Neuberger

• Personal
• Education
• Areas of Interest
• Academic Positions
• Courses Taught
• Research Grants and Fellowships
• Field Research
• Other Professional Activities
• Membership in Professional Societies
• Membership on Editorial Boards
• List of Publications
  • Books and Monographs
  • Edited Books
  • Chapters in Books
  • Articles in Academic Journals
  • Open University Publications
  • Book Reviews
  • Research Reports
  • Encyclopedic Entries
  • Other Publications
  • Articles in Ha’aretz
• Selected Papers at Academic Conferences
 

Personal

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E-mail: bennyn@openu.ac.il

Born: Haifa, Israel; December 26, 1943
Status: Married + 3
Military Service: 1964-66
Languages: Hebrew, English, German, French



Education

1967	B.A., Economics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1967	B.A., Political Science: Hebrew University
1969	M.A., African Studies: Hebrew University
1975	Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University, New York Dissertation: “Concepts of Nationhood of Selected African Leaders,” with Prof. John Hazard and Prof. L.G. Cowan



Areas of Interest

• African Politics
• Israeli Politics
• Nationalism / Ethnic Politics / Separatism
• Religion and Politics / Church and State
• Comparative Politics
• Democratic Theory


Academic Positions

1975 - 1978	Lecturer / Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University and Department of Political Science / Bar Ilan University
1978 - 1987	Senior Lecturer of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1978 - 1987	Senior Lecturer / Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
1983 - 1985	Visiting Professor / Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
1983 - 1984	Visiting Professor / Department of Political Science, Haverford College
1987 - 1994	Associate Professor of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1987 - 1994	Associate Professor / Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
1987 - 2010	Adjunct Professor of Political Science / Department of Social Studies, Beth Berl Labor College
1988	Visiting Professor / Department of Government, University of Cape Town
1994 -	Professor of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1994 - 2002	Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
1994 - 1997	Truman Institute Fellow (Hebrew University)
1996 - 1998	Floersheimer Institute Fellow
2001	Visiting Professor, Moscow State University
2003 - 2005	Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College (Oxford)
2003 - 2005	Visiting Scholar, Yarnton Center for Jewish and Hebrew Studies (Oxford)
2007 -	Research Fellow, The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies (Tel Aviv University)
2008 -	Adjunct Professor in Political Science and International Relations, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
2011	Visiting Scholar, Brandeis University
2011 -	Research Associate, Research Institute for Policy, Political Economy and Society, The Open University of Israel
2011 -	Research Associate, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims, The Open University of Israel



Courses Taught

Political Science - General

1. Political Sociology
2. Political Change
3. Basic Problems in Modern Democratic Politics
4. Nationalism - Ideology and Politics
5. Nationalism, Racism and Fascism
6. Ethnicity, National Integration and Separatism
7. Ethnicity, Nationalism and International Conflict
8. Introduction to International Relations
9. Introduction to Political Philosophy
10. Comparative Politics
11. Church and State in Democratic Countries

African Politics

1. Anti-colonial Nationalism in Africa
2. Ethnic Politics and Separatism in Postcolonial Africa
3. Political Change in Africa
4. Postcolonial Politics in Africa
5. Africa in International Relations

Israeli Politics

1. Government and Politics in Israel
2. Israel’s Foreign Relations
3. Religion and State in Israel


Research Grants and Fellowships

1969 - 1972	Columbia University Fellowship
1976	Jewish Memorial Foundation Grant
1982	Hanan Yavor Grant for Research on Israeli-African Relations - Tel Aviv University
1983	Richard Luyt Grant - Shiloah Centre for Middle Eastern Studies - Tel Aviv University
1984 - 1985	Penn-Israel Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania
1994 - 1995	Truman Institute Fellowship - Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1994 - 2000	Netherlands Israel Research Programme (NIRP) Grant
1996	Floersheimer Institute Research Grant
2010	Research Grant - The Open University of Israel



Field Research

Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa



Other Professional Activities

1975 - 1976	Coordinator of academic course for Chairmen of Israeli Workers’ Councils, Beth Berl College
1975 - 1979 1986 - 1993	Member of the Committee for the Development of a Social Science Curriculum for Israeli High Schools, Ministry of Education
1975 - 1980	Scholar in Residence of the World Zionist Organization in Philadelphia (1975), Dayton (1976, Harrisburg (1978) and Chicago (1980)
1982 - 1983	Chairman of Social Science Committee, The Open University of Israel
1985 - 1986	Director of Teaching, The Open University of Israel
1986 - 1988	Advisor to Israeli Educational Television on Education for Democracy
1987 - 1996	Simulation games in International Relations - Command and Staff College of the IDF
1995	Director of course on “Voting and Democracy” for South African political leaders, Tel Aviv, The Institute for International Cooperation (formerly The Afro-Asian Institute)
1995	Teaching course in “Distance Education Writing”, Swaziland (Southern Africa)
1995 - 1996	Member, Advisory Committee on Civics Education in Israeli Schools, Ministry of Education (“Kremnitzer Committee”)
1997 - 1999	Member, Executive Committee of the Israeli Political Science Association
1997 - 1999	Chairman, Department of Sociology and Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1998 - 2000	Chairman, Professional Committee for the Teaching of Civics, Ministry of Education
1999 - 2000	Joint Israeli-Palestinian Committee for the Teaching of Civics and History in Israel and Palestine, The Rothschild Foundation
1999 - 2003 2006 - 2010	Head of Democracy Studies graduate program, The Open University of Israel
2000 -	Member, Executive Board - Research Committee on Ethnicity and Politics, International Political Science Association (IPSA)
2006	Academic Advisor, European Union of Jewish Students, Group visit to Rwanda (April 2006)
2007 -	Steering Committee on Inter-University African Studies in Israel
2009 -	Steering Committee - The Labor Party Archives
2011	Organizing Committee - Annual International Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
2011	Organizing Committee - Annual Workshop of Research Committee 14 of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Raanana, The Open University of Israel
2011	Steering Committee - International Workshop - International Workshop on "Holocaust and Genocide," The Israeli National Academy of Science



Membership in Professional Societies

1. Israeli Political Science Association
2. Israeli Oriental Society
3. African Studies Association (ASA)
4. American Political Science Association (APSA)
5. International Political Science Association (IPSA)
6. Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
7. International Sociological Association (ISA)
8. Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
9. Historical Society of Israel (HSI)
10. Association for Israeli Studies (AIS)


Membership on Editorial Boards

• Member, International Board, Nations and Nationalism (Blackwell/Oxford)
• Member, Editorial Board, Historia, Journal of the Historical Society of Israel
• Member, Editorial Board (until 2006), The Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism


List of Publications

Books and Monographs

1. Involvement, Invasion and Withdrawal: Quadhafi’s Libya and Chad 1969-1981 (Tel-Aviv, Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1982).
2. National Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa (Boulder/Colorado, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986).
3. Religion and Democracy in Israel (Jerusalem, The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, 1997) [English and Hebrew]
4. Israel's Relations with the Third World (1948-2008) (Tel-Aviv, The Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel-Aviv University, 2009).


Edited Books

1. Society and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1978) [Hebrew]
Government and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1987) [H]
State, Government and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1996) [H]
Africa-Islam, Christianity and Judaism [with A. Layish and Y. Gershoni] (Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, 1999) [H]


Chapters in Books

1. “A Comparative Analysis of Pan-Africanism” in R. Wright (ed.), African Philosophy - An Introduction (Washington, University Press of America, 1977), pp. 237-258 (also published in Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism).
“Federalism and Political Integration in Africa” in D. Elazar (ed.), Federalism and Political Integration (Ramat Gan, Turtledove, 1979), pp. 171-190.
3. “Israel and Germany: Moralism, Pragmatism and Moral Pragmatism” in I. Levkov (ed.), Bitburg and Beyond: Encounters in American, German and Jewish History (New York, Shapolsky Publishers, 1987), pp. 553-557.
“The Stabilization of Democracy in Germany: Lessons for Israel” in B. Susser (ed.), The Israeli Political System: Proposals for Change (Tel Aviv, 1987), pp. 43-61 [H].
“Israel and Liberal Democracy” in N. Gertz (ed.), Society and Politics in Israel (Tel Aviv, Open University of Israel, 1988), pp. 105-126 [H].
“Nationalism Compared: ANC, PLO, IRA” in H. Giliomee (ed.), The Elusive Search for Peace: South Africa, Israel and Northern Ireland (Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 54-77.
“Nationalism and its Opponents: The African Case” in H. Avni and G. Shimoni (eds.), Zionism and its Jewish Opponents (Jerusalem, Bialik, 1990), pp. 421-433 [H].
“Does Israel Have a Democratic Political Tradition?” in Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B, Vol. I (Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1990), pp. 589-596 [H].
“Early Pan-Africanism, Judaism and Zionism - W.E.B. Du-Bois” in The 1989 African Studies Association Annual Meeting Papers (Atlanta, Emory University, 1990).
“Irredentism and Politics in Africa” in N. Chasan (ed.), Irredentism in International Politics (Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991), pp. 97-110.
“Democracy and education in Israel - An Overview” in S. Levin (ed.), Political Education in Schools (Tel Aviv, Israeli Federation of Teachers, 1992), pp. 39-49 [H].
“National Self Determination - Dilemmas of a Concept” in J. Beramendi, R. Maiz and X.M. Nunez (eds.), Nationalism in Europe - Past and Present (Santiago de Compastela, Santiago de Compastela University Press, Vol. I, 1994), pp. 277-305.
“State and Nation in African Thought” in J. Hutchinson and A. Smith (eds.), Nationalism - A Reader (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 231-235.
“Trends in the political Organization of Arabs in Israel” in E. Rekhess and T. Yegnes (eds.), Arab Politics in Israel at the Crossroads (Tel Aviv, Dayan Center, 1995), pp. 27-40. [Hebrew version, 1995, pp. 35-46].
“Israel’s New Basic Laws - Discussion and Disagreement” in State, Government and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1996) pp. 238-249 [H].
“Peace and the Quality of Israeli Democracy” in T. Hermann and E. Yuchtman-Yaar (eds.), Israeli Society and the Challenge of Transition to Coexistence (Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University, 1997), pp. 122-131.
“Religion and State in Israel” in Palestine, Jordan, Israel (Jerusalem, PASSIA, 1997), pp. 100-114.
“From Idealism to Pragmatism - Israel and the Third World 1948-1992” in A. Shapira (ed.), Independence - The First Fifty Years (Jerusalem, Shazar Center, 1998), pp. 351-362.
“The Arab Vote Between Integration and Delegetimization” in E. Rekhess (ed.), The Arabs in Israeli Politics: Dilemmas of Identity (Tel Aviv, Dayan Center, 1998), pp. 31-40 [H]. [Also published in R. Gavison and D. Hacker (eds.) The Jewish-Arab Rift: A Reader, Jerusalem, The Israel Democracy Institute, 2000, pp. 133-144]
“Religion and State in Europe and Israel” in R. Hazan and M. Maor (eds.), Parties, Elections and Cleavages: Israel in Comparative Perspective (London, F. Cass, 1999), pp. 65-84.
“Social Cleavages and Political Parties” in Israel - State, Society and Politics (Jerusalem, PASSIA, 2000), pp. 19-22.
“Black Nationalism - The Jewish Dimension” in A. Layish, Y. Gershoni and B. Neuberger (eds.), Africa-Islam, Christianity and Judaism (Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, 1999), pp. 96-104 [H].
“Ethnic Groups and the State in Africa” in S. Ben-Ami, Y. Peled and A. Spektorowsky (eds.), Ethnic Challenges to the Modern State (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000), pp. 294-308.
“Democracy and Democratization in Africa” in E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Steinberg (eds.), Identity, Culture and Globalization (Leiden, Brill, 2001), pp. 193-204.
“Church and State in Europe” in N. Langenthal and S. Friedman (eds.), Conflict - Religion and State in Israel (Tel Aviv, Yedioth, 2002), pp. 336-353 [H].
“Church and State - Recent Trends in Democratic States” in M. Bar-On and Z. Zameret (eds.), On Both Sides of the Bridge - Religion and State in the Early Years of Israel (Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi, 2002), pp. 3-20 [H].
“National Self-Determination in the Middle East and North Africa” in M. Maoz and G. Sheffer (eds.), Middle Eastern Minorities and Diasporas (Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2002), pp. 41-71.
“Israel - A Liberal Democracy with Four Flaws” in Y. David (ed.), The State  of Israel: Between Judaism and Democracy (Jerusalem, The Israel Democracy Institute, 2003), pp. 361-370. [An earlier version was published in Hebrew in 2000]
“The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics - Between ‘Ethnic Democracy’ and ‘Democratic Integration’” in A. Guelke (ed.), Democracy and Ethnic Conflict (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2004), pp. 52-79.
“Education and Liberal Democracy in Israel” in Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Yarnton/Oxford, 2004), pp. 32-52.
“Les Partis Ethnoculturels en Israël” in J. Tournon and R. Maiz (eds.), Ethnicisme et Politique (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2005), pp. 161-190.
“Understanding the Twentieth Century: The Rise and Fall and Re-emergence of Totalitarian Discourse” in A. Horowitz, O. Limor, A Bar-Levav and R. Ben-Shalom (eds.), The Past and Beyond: Studies in History and Philosophy (Raanana, The Open University, 2006), pp. 317-360 [H].
“African Nationalism” in G. Delanty and K. Kumar (eds.), Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (London, Sage, 2006), pp. 513-526.
“Cleavages and Parties in Israel” in U. Cohen, E. Ben-Rafael, A Bareli and E. Ya’ar (eds.), Israel and Modernity (Tel Aviv; Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University and Yad Ben Zvi, 2006), pp. 169-210 [H].
“Moshe Sharett and Early Relations with Germany - Political Wisdom and Moral Pragmatism” in Y. Sharett (ed.), Moshe Sharett and the German Reparations Controversy (Tel Aviv, The Moshe Sharett Heritage Foundation, 2007), pp. 845-851 [H]. [Also published in Y. Sharett (ed.), A Stateman Assessed - Views and Viewpoints about Moshe Sharett (Moshe Sharett Heritage Society, 2008), pp. 197-203]
“Old and New Arab Political Elites” in E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg (eds.), New Elites in Israel (Jerusalem, Bialik Institute, 2007), pp. 410-428 [H].
“Constitutional Aspects of Relations between State and Religion” in Y. Yovel (ed.), New Jewish Time - Jewish Culture in a Secular Age, Vol. IV (Jerusalem, Keter, 2007), pp. 423-430 [H].
“The Non-Religious Parties and State-Religion Relations” [with Sigal Ben-Rafael] in Y. Yovel (ed.), New Jewish Time - Jewish Culture in a Secular Age, Vol. IV (Jerusalem, Keter, 2007), pp. 479-489 [H].
“Different Concepts of a Jewish Democratic State” in Judit Bokser-Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yossi Gorni and Raanan Rein (eds.), Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism (Leiden, Brill, 2008), pp. 375-396.
“Self-Defending Democracy in Israel” in Markus Thiel (ed.), The ‘Militant Democracy’ Principle in Modern Democracies (Ashgate Publishing, 2009), pp. 183-207.
“From Pan-Africanism in America to Sovereignty and Territorial ‘Nationbuilding’ in Post-Colonial Africa” in Ilan Rachum (ed.), Back to Politics - The Modern State, Nationality and Sovereignty (Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center, Israeli Historical Society, 2009), pp. 245-274.
“Black Zionism - The Return to Africa in Theory and Practice” in E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg (eds.), Transnationalism: Diasporas and the Advent of a New (Dis)Order (Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009), pp. 595-611.
“Autodeterminación nacional y democracia,” in L. Moreno and A. Lecours (eds.), Nacionalismo y democracia - Dicotomías, complementariedades, oposiciones (Madrid, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2009), pp.91-128. [Also in English, “National Self-Determination and Democracy,” in Luis Moreno and A. Lecours (eds.), Nationalism and Democracy - Dichotomies, Complementarities and Oppositions (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 52-79.]
44. “Die Theorie des demokratischen Friedens und der Israelisch-Arabische Konflikt,” in J. Dülffer und G. Niedhart (eds), Frieden durch Demokratie (Essen, Klartext, 2011), pp. 245-256.
45. “From Colonial Race Theory to Post-Colonial Genocide - Rwanda 1994,” in Y. Auron and I. Lubelsky (eds), Between Racism and Genocide in the Modern Era (The Open University and the Stephen Roth Institute for Research on Antisemitism and Racism of Tel Aviv University, 2011), pp. 85-102 [H].
46. “Cooperation between Church and State in Liberal Democracies,” in J. Fox (ed.), Religion, Politics, Society and the State (Paradigm Publishers, 2011), pp. 11-26.


Articles in Academic Journals

1. “Classless Society in One-Party-State Ideology in Africa,” African Studies Review, XIV, No. 2 (September 1971), pp. 287-292.
“The Concept of Democracy: African Definitions,” International Problems, XVI, Nos. 3-4 (1972), pp. 71-79 [H].
“One-Party-State Ideology in Africa: Contrasts and Contradictions,” The New East Quarterly of the Israeli Oriental Society, XXIV, No. 4 (1974), pp. 280-292 [H].
“Has the Single Party State Failed in Africa?” African Studies Review, XVII, No. 1 (April 1974), pp. 173-178.
“Racial Nationalism in Black Africa,” Wiener Library Bulletin, XXVIII, Nos. 35/36 (October 1975), pp. 50-56.
“The Concept of Balkanization,” Journal of Modern African Studies, XIII, No. 3 (Cambridge University, September 1976), pp. 523-529.
“The Western-Nation-State in African Perceptions of Nation Building,” Asian and African Studies, XI, No. 2 (Hebrew University, 1976), pp. 241-261.
“What is a Nation?: A Contribution to the Debate on the Palestinian Problem,” State Government and International Relations, No. 9 (Hebrew University, 1976), pp. 93-108 [H].
“Pan-Africanism and Comparative Nationalism,” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, IV, No. 1 (Fall 1976), pp. 100-112 (also published in R. Wright, African Philosophy: An Introduction).
“State and Nation in African Thought,” Journal of African Studies, IV, No. 2 (University of California, Summer 1977), pp. 198-205.
“Natural and Artificial Boundaries: The African View,” International Problems, XVII, No. 1 (Spring 1978), pp. 95-102.
“On Dealing with Multiethnicity in Europe and Africa,” Plural Societies, XV, No. 3 (The Hague, October 1984), pp. 239-254.
“Early African Nationalism, Judaism and Zionism: E.W. Blyden,” Jewish Social Studies, XLVII, No. 2 (Spring 1985), pp. 151-165.
“W.E.B. Du-Bois on Black Nationalism and Zionism,” Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (December 1986), pp. 139-144.
“History and African Concepts of Nationhood,” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (Spring 1987), pp. 161-179.
“Israel and the Third World,” International Problems, XXVII, Nos. 3-4 (1988), pp. 8-21 [H].
“Israel’s Democracy and Comparative Studies,” Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. I, Nos. 3-4 (Fall 1989), pp. 67-75.
“The Withdrawal ‘South of Suez’ - Great Britain and Postcolonial Africa,” Asian and African Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (July 1992), pp. 95-100.
“The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics - From Marginality to Influence,” Asian and African Studies, Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2 (July 1993), pp. 149-169.
“National Self-Determination: Dilemmas of a Concept,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1995) (Cambridge University), pp. 297-325 [also published in Hungarian in Hungarian Minority - Journal of Minority Studies, Vol. VI, No. 3 (2000)].
“Religious, National and Ethnic Cleavages in Israeli Politics,” Vostok [“The East,” Institute of Oriental Studies / The Russian Academy of Science] (January 1995), pp. 17-26 [translated from Hebrew].
“Compromise and the Way to Peace,” Aziia i Afrika Segodinia [“Asia and Africa Today,” The Scholarly Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies / The Russian Academy of Science] (May 1995), pp. 22-27 (translated from Hebrew).
“Colonialism and the Creation of Ethnicity in Africa,” Migration, No. 28 (1995), pp. 55-66.
“Black Nationalism, Jews and Zionism,” Past and Future - Journal of Jewish Education, Culture and Discourse, Vol. 2, No. 3 (April 1996), pp. 18-22.
“Religion and State in Europe and Israel,” Israel Affairs, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 1999), pp. 65-84.
“National Self-Determination - A Theoretical Perspective,” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 391-418.
“Between Ideology and Sociology - Parties in Israel 1950-2000,” State and Society [Haifa University] Vol. I, No. 1 (December 2001), pp. 79-87 [H].
“Rwanda 1994 - Nothing Short of Genocide,” Historia - The Journal of the Israeli Historical Association, No. 12 (2003), pp. 33-56 [H].
“Israel und Deutschland: Emotionen, Realpolitik und Moral,” Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, No. 15 (April 2005), pp. 14-22.
“Genocide in Rwanda - The Dark Side of Democracy?,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 2006), pp. 402-407.
“Education for Democracy in Israel: Structural Impediments and Basic Dilemmas,” International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 27 (2007), pp. 292-305.<
“Self-Defending Democracy in Israel 1948-2008,” Social Issues in Israel, No. 6 (2008), pp. 68-93 [H].
“État juif et démocratique: Essai de définition,” Les Temps Modernes, Vol. 64, Nos. 652-653 (Jan.-April 2009), pp. 19-45.
“The Amish, the Rule of Law and Freedom of Religion - The Culture of Compromise in American Democracy,” Democratic Culture, Vol. 12 (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009), pp. 145-165 [H]. Also published in English in Democratic Culture, Vol. 12 (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2011), pp. 115-140.


Open University Publications (in Hebrew)

I. Books
The Emergence of New States in Africa:


• The Ethnic Problem in Africa and the Wars of Katanga and Biafra (1980) 186 pp.
• From White Rule to Black Nationhood: Ideological Currents in Africa (1980) 142 pp.
• Government and Succession in Black Africa (1981) 130 pp.
• Anticolonial Nationalism - The Ideological Dimension (1997) 183 pp. [with E. Keren]
• Democracy, Democratization and De-democratization in Africa (2003) 116 pp.
• The Military in African Politics (2003) 80 pp.

Africa in International Relations:


• Africa in International Relations (2010) 233 pp.

Democracies and Dictatorships in the 20th Century:


• Fascism - Ideology and Politics (1983) 160 pp.
• Totalitarianism - Despotism in the Modern Era (1983) 125 pp.
• Modern Democracy: Ideological Roots and Basic Concepts (1985) 152 pp.

Government and Politics in Israel:


• Democracy in Israel - Origins and Development (1989) 145 pp. [Updated version in Russian, 1997; Updated and revised version, 1998]
• The Constitution Debate in Israel (1990) 155 pp. [Updated version in Russian, 1996; Updated and revised version, 1997]
• Knesset Supremacy or Government Rule? (1990) 141 pp. [Updated version in Russian, 1996; Updated and revised version, 1997]
• State and Religion in Israel (1994) 140 pp. [Version in Russian, 1997]
• Political Parties in Israel (1991) 220 pp. [Revised and updated version 1997, 280 pp.; Updated version in Russian, 1997]
• The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics: National Alienation and Political Integration (1991) 168 pp. [Updated version in Russian, 1997; Updated and revised version, 1998]

Democracies and Dictatorships - Ideas, Contexts, Regimes:


• Vol. I Democracies (2004) 288 pp.
• Vol. II Dictatorships (2004) 222 pp.

Genocide:


• Rwanda 1994: Genocide in the Land of a Thousand Hills (2005) 208 pp.

Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century:


• Fascist Italy (2009) 220 pp.

Arab Society in Israel:


• Parties and Elections, Leadership and Media (2010), 412 pp. [with R. Aharoni and M. Kabha]

II. Edited Books
Selected Topics in Israeli Foreign Policy:


• Diplomacy and War (1984), 625 pp.
• War and Peacemaking (1992), 650 pp.
• Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel (2004), 2 vols., 715 pp. [with I. Telem and S. Zabag]
• Foreign Policy between Confrontation and Agreements - Israel 1948-2008 (2008), 2 vols., 1125 pp. [with A. Geronik]

National Security and Democracy in Israel:


• National Security and Democracy in Israel (2007), 3 vols. [with I. Ben Ami and A. Gross-Rophe] (also Russian version)
• Primary Sources and Documents (2007) [with I. Ben Ami and A. Gross-Rophe]

National Security and Democracy (MA):


• National Security and Democracy (2007, bilingual H-E) [with I. Ben Ami and A. Gross-Rophe] [additional volume in Hebrew, 2011]

Democracy and Democratization:


• Democracy and Democratization (1998) 2 vols. [with I. Kaufman]

The Emergence of New States in Africa:


• Social and Economic Change in Africa in the Twentieth Century (2006) 255 pp. [with I. Back]

Africa and International Relations:


• Africa and International Relations (2009) 2 vols. [bilingual H-E], 672 pp.

Religion, State and Politics:


• Religion, State and Politics: Theory and Practice (2009) 2 vols. [bilingual H-E], 759 pp. [with E. Gutmann]

Democracies and Dictatorships - Comparative Politics:


• Democracies and Dictatorships - Comparative Politics: A Reader [with E. Gutmann]

III. Chapters in Books


• “Morality, Sentiments and Realism in German-Israeli Relations” in War and Peacemaking, pp. 279-290. [Also updated and revised in Foreign Policy between Confrontation and Agreements, 2008, pp. 269-283].
• “From Idealism to Pragmatism - Israel and the Third World 1948-1992” in War and Peacemaking, pp. 495-510.
• “National Security and Democracy - Tensions and Dilemmas” in Democracy and National Security in Israel, pp. 3-37.
• “Self-Defending Democracy” in Democracy and National Security in Israel, pp. 38-53.
• “Israel and its Relations with Asia, Africa and Latin America 1948-2008” in Foreign Policy between Confrontation and Agreements, 2008, pp. 1052-1079.


Book Reviews (Selected list)

1. Buitenhuijs, R., “Le Mouvement Mau Mau” (Le Haye 1971), Hamizrah Hehadash (The New East Quarterly of the Israeli Oriental Society), Vol. 24, No. 1-2.
2. Gibson, R., “African Liberation Movements” (London 1972), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. 24, No. 1-2 (1974), pp. 121-122.
3. Langley, A., “Pan-Africanism and Nationalism in West Africa” (Oxford 1973), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1975), pp. 249-250.
4. Buitenhuijs, R., “Mau Mau Twenty Years After” (The Hague 1973), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. 26, No. 3-4 (1976), pp. 317-318.
5. Shafer, B., “Faces of Nationalism” (New York 1972), Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, I, No. 3 (Hebrew University 1976), pp. 138-140.
6. Horowitz, I.L., “Genocide, State Power and Mass Murder” (New Brunswick 1976), Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, II, No. 1 (Hebrew University 1977), pp. 115-116.
7. Cervenka, Z., “The Unfinished Quest for Unity” (London 1977), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. 28, No. 3-4 (1979), pp. 317-318.
8. Drachler, J., “Black Homeland-Black Diaspora” (London 1975), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. 29, No. 1-4 (1980), pp. 262-263.
9. Joseph, R., “Radical Nationalism in Cameroun” (Oxford 1977), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. 29, No. 1-4 (1980), pp. 268-269.
10. Ottaway, D. and Ottaway, M., “Afrocommunism” (New York 1981), Hamizrah Hehadash, Vol. 23, No. 1-4 91984), pp. 60-62.
11. Damis, J., “Conflict in Northwest Africa: The Western Sahara Dispute” (Stanford 1983), American Political Science Review, Vol. 79, No. 1 (March 1985), p. 242.
12. Oz, A., “In the Land of Israel” (New York 1983), Political Psychology, VI, No. 3 (September 1985), pp. 339-342.
13. Mazrui, A. and Tidy, M., “Nationalism and New States in Africa” (London 1984), Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1986), pp. 299-300.
14. Chabal, P., “Political Domination in Africa” (Cambridge 1986), Cahiers D’Etudes Africaines, Vol. XXVII, No. 3-4 (1987), pp. 447-449.
15. Smith, A., “The Ethnic Origin of Nations” (London 1987), Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XV, No. 1-2 (1988), pp. 144-146.
16. Shafir, S., “An Outstretched Hand: German Social Democrats, Jews and Israel 1945-1967,” Problems of Judaism, Vol. 5 (Hebrew University 1989), pp. 391-395.
17. Goldman, R. and Wilson, Y. (eds.), “From Independence to Statehood: Managing Ethnic Conflict in Five African and Asian States” (London 1984), Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XVI, No. 1-2 (1989), pp. 352-355.
18. Decalo, S., “Psychoses of Power: African Personal Dictatorships” (Boulder 1989), African Studies Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (December 1989), pp. 146-147.
19. Heid, L. and Paucker, A., “Juden und deutsche Arbeiterbewegung bis 1933,” Gesher - Journal of Jewish Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 130 (1995), pp. 106-108.
20. Mosse, G., “Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism” (Hanover/NH 1993), Nations and Nationalism, Vol. I, No. 2 (1995), pp. 261-265.
21. Schlegel, D., “Der Neue Nationalismus - Ursachen, Chancen, Gefahren,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1996), pp. 155-158.
22. Schulze, K.E., Stokes, M. and Campbell, C. (eds.), “Nationalism, Nationalities and Diaspora: Identities and Rights in the Middle East” (London, 1996), Nations and Nationalism Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 1998) pp. 294-295.
23. Karsh, E. (ed.), “From Rabin to Netanyahu: Israel’s Troubled Agenda,” Politika - The Israeli Journal of Political Science and International Relations, No. 1 (June 1998), pp. 81-83 [H].
24. Lissak, M. and Kney-Paz, B. (eds.), “Israel Towards the year 2000 - Society, Politics and Culture,” Gesher, No. 137 (Summer 1998), pp. 114-115 [H].
25. Konfino, A., “The Nation as a Local Metaphor-Imperial Germany and National Memory,” Zmanim - A Historical Quarterly (Tel Aviv University), Vol. 17-18, Nos. 68-69 (Autumn-Winter 1999/2000), pp. 167-169 [H].
26. Hashim, A.B., “The Fallen State: Dissonance, Dictatorship and Death in Somalia,” African Studies Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (December 1999), pp. 220-222.
27. Maddox, G. and Welliner, T., “Colonialism and Nationalism in Africa,” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XXVI (1999), pp. 166-167.
28. Hansen, N., “Aus dem Schatten der Katastrophe: Die Deutsch-Israelischen Beziehungen in der Ära Konrad Adenauer und David Ben Gurion,” Gesher - Journal of Jewish Affairs, Vol. 49, No. 147 (2003), pp. 97-100 [H]. [Also published in German in Politische Meinung (February 2004), pp. 89-93].
29. Smith, A., “Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 2003), pp. 455-456.
30. Beissinger, M. and Young, C. (eds.), “Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Euro-Asia,” The Russian Review, Vol. 63, No. 4 (October 2004), pp. 730-732.
31. Auron, Y., “The Pain of Knowledge: Reflections on the Holocaust and Genocide in Education - In Israel and Elsewhere,” Gesher, No. 150 (Winter 2004), pp. 121-122 [H].
32. Handelman, D., “Nationalism and the Israeli State,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 2006), pp. 380-382.

Research Reports

• Early African Nationalism, Judaism and Zionism - E.W. Blyden (Tel Aviv University, The David Horowitz Institute for the Research of Developing Countries, 1984), 31 pp. Also Published in Jewish Social Studies.

Encyclopedic Entries

• “Uganda,” “Zaire,” “Madagascar,” “OAU,” Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Merhavia, Sifriat Hapoalim, 1981), pp. 6-11; 79-86; 360-361; 532-533 [H].
• “Chad,” Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (New York, Columbia University, 1992).

Other Publications

1. Speakers’ Manual of the Arab-Israel Conflict (New York 1970, 1971, 1975) [Spanish Translation “Guia de conferencias” / Buenos Aires 1977].
2. Israel: Unity in Diversity: The Challenge of National Integration in the Jewish State (New York, American Zionist Youth Foundation 1972).
3. “An Attempt to deepen Soviet Penetration in Africa,” Monthly Review (Israeli Defense Forces, April 1977), pp. 15-30 [H].
4. “The Organization of African Unity - The First 15 Years,” Monthly Review (May 1978), pp. 3-18 [H]. Also published in D. Sachs (ed.), State Versus States (Tel Aviv, Am Oved 1980), pp. 39-42 [H].
5. Types of Democratic Governments (Israeli Government Information Office, Jerusalem 1986), pp. 24 [H] [Revised and updated edition; Jerusalem Ministry of Education 1994, 30 pp.).
6. “Greater Israel and Liberal Democracy,” Israel Democracy, Vol. I, No. 4 (Israel-Diaspora Institute / Tel Aviv University 1987), pp. 30-35.
7. “Israeli Democracy - If There Be Annexation,” in A. Doron (ed.), The State of Israel and the Land of Israel (Beit Berl 1988), pp. 327-343 [H].
8. Israel’s Democracy: How Liberal? How Stable? (Cape Town, Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies 1988), 33 pp.
9. “The West German Model and Israeli Electoral reform,” Israeli Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1989), pp. 4-7.
10. “Supremacy of the Knesset or Rule by the Government - Theory and Practice,” Be’eri - Issues in Humanities, Social and Educational Sciences, Vol. 2 (Beit Berl College 1990), pp. 31-42 [H].
11. “Israel and the Third World,” Spektrum - Israel Labour Movement Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 6 (June 1990), pp. 22-23.
12. “Modern Democracy - A Comparative Perspective,” Monthly Review, No. 3 (May 1992), pp. 23-34 [H].
13. “The Political Structure of Israel: Knesset, Government, the Presidency and the Court System” in A. Konforti (ed.), Knowledge of Land and People (Jerusalem, The Jewish Agency - Department of Immigration and Absorption 1992) [Russian - translation from Hebrew].
14. “From Blyden to Mandela - Black Nationalism and the Jews,” Special Open University Supplement of Ha’aretz (July 1994) [H].
15. “Democracy and Democratization in Africa,” Israel Africa Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 2 (Winter 1994), pp. 3-4 [Also published in French].
16. Minorities in Democracies (Jerusalem, Ministry of Education, 1995), 37 pp. [H].
17. “Zwei Israelis, drei Meinungen - Israels Kurs im Friedensprozess spiegelt die Vielfalt der Parteien wider,” Der Ueberblick, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1995), pp. 11-16.
18. What is Zionism? [Russian/translated], Scholarly Discussion Series of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow 1995.
19. Zionism (Jerusalem, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1995) [Also published in German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French and Azeri. Another version published in Herzl and Zionism - Binyamin Ze’ev Herzl 1860-1904 (2004); also in Russian, German, French and Spanish].
20. “Black Nationalism, Judaism and Zionism,” Israel-Africa Bulletin (Spring 1995), pp. 3-5 [Also published in French].
21. Report on “Workshop on Course Design and Development in Distance Education” for the Staff of the Institute for Distance Education of the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) (Jerusalem, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division for International Cooperation 1995) [with M. Ganor].
22. “War and Peace,” Mosaic, No. 5 (The Open University 1996) [Editor with N. Gertz] [H].
23. “Democracy and National Security,” Mosaic, No. 3 (The Open University 1996) [Editor and Introduction] [H].
24. “Wars and Violence in Africa - Causes and Background Conditions,” Mosaic, No. 6, 1996), pp. 7-18 [H].
25. “Religion and State in Democracies,” Kol Adam, No. 21 (September 1997), pp. 2-5 [H]. [Also published in H. Adler and others (eds.) Symposium on Democracy, Vol. II (School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002) pp. 107-112].
26. “Gesellschaft und Parteien in Israel,” Das Parlament, Nr 14 (March 1998).
27. “Die politischen und rechtlichen Strukturen,” Das Parlament, Nr 14 (March 1998).
28. “Africa Between Dictatorship and Democracy - Political, Economic and Social Aspects” in International Cooperation Policies in Africa (Jerusalem, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1998), pp. 14-16 [Hebrew Version pp. 33-39].
29. “Democracy with Stains,” Panim - Quarterly for Society, Culture and Education, No. 9 (Spring 1999), pp. 104-108 [H].
30. “From Mussolini to Khomeiny - Totalitarianism in the 20th Century” in The 20th Century - A Teachers’ Guide in History (Tel Aviv, Center for Educational Technology, 2000), pp. 7-21 [H].
31. “Education for Democracy in Israel,” Special Open University Supplement of Ha’aretz (May 2000), pp. 8-11 [Revised and updated version in Academia Supplement of Ha’aretz, March 2002, pp. 28-29] [H].
32. “The Attitude towards the Arabs is the Real Test,” Sada A Tarbiya, Vol. 50 (Summer 2002), pp. 33-35 [Arabic].
33. “Staatsaufbau und politisches System in Israel,” Informationen zur Politischen Bildung, No. 278 (2003), pp. 14-24 [updated version, April 2008, pp. 29-40].
34. “National Minorities in a Democratic State” in H. Adler and others (eds.), Symposium on Democracy, Vol. IV (School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003), pp. 105-119 [H].
35. “Israel’s Democracy Has Four Flaws,” www.democracy.co.il, 5 December 2008, 3 pp. [H].
36. “Die Bedeutung der Religion im Staat Israel,” bpb: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, March 2008.
37. “Politisches System: westliche Demokratie mit Eigenheiten,” in G. Dachs, Israel - kurzgefasst (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2010), pp. 50–55.
38. “Parteienlandschaft: Spiegelbild einer komplexen Gesellschaft,” in G. Dachs, Israel - kurzgefasst (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2010), pp. 56–60.

Articles in Ha’aretz (in Hebrew)

1. “Think about the word ‘transfer’,” 20.3.2002.
2. “Our Holocaust and Others’,” 26.4.2006. Also published in the English edition, 28.4.2006.
3. “Why do they boycott us,” 22.5.2006. Also published in the English edition as “The Protocols, 21st century style,” 25.5.2006.
4. “Exemplary citizenship,” 15.9.2010.
5. “All nations are imagined,” 6.10.2010.
6. “Democracy is not majority rule,” 15.12.2010.
7. “The sexual obsession of the racists,” 12.1.2011.
8. “Between democracy and peace,” 11.2.2011. Also published in the English edition, 11.2.2011.
9. “Outrightly illegal expulsion,” 14.3.2011.

Selected Papers at Academic Conferences

1984	“National Self-Determination in Africa,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association / Los Angeles.
1986	“African Nationalism and its Opponents,” Conference on Zionism and its Opponents / Hebrew University.
1987	“Black Zionism,” Annual Meeting of the African Association for the Study of the Americas / Abidjan (The Ivory Coast).
1987	“Ethics and Foreign Policy - The Case of Tanzania,” Conference on Innovative Leadership in International Politics / Hebrew University (Davis Institute).
1987	“Israeli Democracy and Comparative Politics,” Workshop on Jewish Political Tradition at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Teaching of Judaism in Universities / Jerusalem.
1989	“Does Israel Have a Democratic Political Tradition?,” Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies / Hebrew University.
1989	“Nationalism Compared: ANC, PLO, IRA,” Conference on Ethnic Conflicts in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel / Bonn (Naumann Foundation).
1989	“W.E.B. DuBois on Judaism and Zionism,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association / Atlanta.
1991	“Ethnic Groups and the State in Africa,” Conference on “Ethno-Nationalism and Regionalism” / Hebrew University (Davis Institute).
1992	“Ethnic and Territorial Nationalism in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa,” Wiener Library Seminar on Rethinking Nationalism / Tel-Aviv University.
1992	“The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics - From Marginality to Influence,” Conference on Minorities in the Middle East / Tel-Aviv University (Dayan Center).
1993	“Nationbuilding in Multi-Ethnic Societies,” Conference on Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa / Grahamstown (South Africa).
1993	“Nationbuilding and Constitution-Making - Ethiopian Perspectives,” Conference on the Making of an Ethiopian Constitution / Addis Ababa (Inter-Africa Group).
1993	“African Nationalism and the Invention of the Past,” Conference on Ethnicity, Identity and Intervention of the Past / Hebrew University (Truman Institute).
1993	“National Self-Determination - Dilemmas of a Concept,” Conference on “Nationalism - Past and Present” / Santiago de Compostela University (Spain).
1994	“Ethnic Nationalism in Africa,” Institute of African Studies and Research Group on Nationalism / University of Cologne (Germany).
1994	“Israeli and Palestinian Nationhood - Interrelated Concepts,” World Congress of the International Sociological Association / Bielefeld (Germany).
1994	“What is Zionism?,” Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation / Moscow.
1994	“Religion and Ethnicity in Israeli Politics,” Institute of Oriental Studies (Institut Vostokovedeniia) / The Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).
1994	“Trends of Change in the Political Organization of the Israeli Arabs,” Conference on “Arab Politics in Israel at the Crossroads,” Tel Aviv University (Dayan Center).
1994	“Nation and National Identity - Concepts and Approaches,” Dayan Center Annual Seminar on Processes of Nationbuilding in the Middle East.
1995	“Democracy and Democratization in Africa,” Conference of Israel’s Ambassadors in Africa, Jerusalem (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
1995	“World War II and the Decolonization of Africa,” Conference on “Fifty Years Later: World War II and its Aftermath” / Hebrew University (Davis Institute).
1995	“The Peace Process in the Middle East in Historical Perspective,” Lecture Given to the Diplomatic Corps / Mbabane (Swaziland).
1995	“African Nationalism - The Jewish Connection” Conference on “Africa-Christianity, Islam, Judaism” / Jerusalem (Van Leer Institute).
1995	“Ethnic Groups and the State in Africa,” Conference on “The New Politics of Ethnicity,” Curiel Center for International Studies (Tel Aviv University).
1996	“Religion and State in Israel,” Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Workshop on “Religion and State - Palestine, Jordan, Israel” (Jerusalem)
1996	“‘Militant Democracy’: Extremism and the Defense of Democracy,” Conference on “Extremism in a Democratic Society” (German-Israeli Foundation, Dead Sea).
1996	“The Arab Vote and Its Impact on the Israeli Political System,” Conference on “The Arab Vote for the 14th Knesset,” The Heineman Institute for Research in the Middle East (Haifa University).
1996	“Peace and the Quality of Israel’s Democracy,” Conference on “Israeli Society and the Challenge of Transition to Coexistence,” Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research (Tel Aviv University).
1996	“The Arab Vote Between Integration and Delegitimization ,” Conference on “The Arabs in Israeli Politics: Dilemmas of Identity,” Dayan Center (Tel Aviv University).
1997	“National Security and the Limits of Liberty in Liberal Democracies,” Conference on “Ethics, Law and Communication in an Era of Political Violence and Extremism” (Haifa University).
1997	“Africa Between Dictatorships and Democracy: A Political, Economic and Social Overview,” Conference on International Development Cooperation in Africa,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ma’aleh Hahamisha).
1997	“The State and the Creation of Ethnicity - Colonial Africa and Soviet Central Asia,” Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Meeting, New York (Columbia University).
1999	“Democracy and Democratization in Africa,” International Conference on “Multiple Modernities in the Era of Globalization,” 34th World Congress of International Institute of Sociology (Tel Aviv University).
1999	“Causes of War in Africa,” International Conference on “Nationalism and National Security,” Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) on Armed Forces and Society (Ben Gurion University).
2000	“National Self-Determination: A Theoretical Discussion,” Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of nationalities (ASN), (Columbia University / New York).
2000	“Social Cleavages and Political Parties in Israel,” Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Relations (PASSIA), (Ramallah / Palestine).
2001	“How Stable is Israel’s Democracy?,” University of Bonn (Germany).
2001	“The Arab Minority in Israel - From ‘Ethnic Democracy’ to National Integration,” Research Committee in Ethnicity and Politics / IPSA (Belfast).
2002	“Ideological and Sociological Ethnic Parties in Israel,” Research Committee in Ethnicity and Politics / IPSA (Paris).
2002	“The Globalization of National Self-Determination,” Research Committee on “Democracy, Capitalism and Socialism” / IPSA (Ottawa).
2002	“The Language Problem in Africa,” Association for the Study of Language and Society (Tel Aviv).
2003	“Rwanda 1994 - Nothing Short of Genocide,” Israeli Historical Association / Shazar Center (Jerusalem).
2003	“The Arab Minority in Israel’s 2003 Elections,” Association for Israeli Studies (AIS) Annual Conference (San Diego, CA).
2003	“The Israel - South African Analogy: An Israeli Perspective,” International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Conference (Durban, South Africa).
2004	“Democracy and Education in Israel - Constraints and Dilemmas,” Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Yarnton).
2004	“Rwanda 1994 - Ethnicity, Race Theory, Genocide,” Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics (LSE).
2004	“The Arab-Israeli Conflict - War and Peace in Historical Perspective,” Matsunga Institute for Peace / University of Hawaii (Honolulu).
2004	“Colonial and Postcolonial Africa - From Pan Africanism to the Territorial Nation State,” Annual Convention of the Israeli Historical Association, Jerusalem / Shazar Centre.
2004	“From Namibia (1904) to Rwanda (1994) - Comparing Genocide in the 20th Century,” Conference on “1904 - 2004 Decontaminating the Namibian Past,” Windhoek / Namibia.
2005	“Genocide - The Dark Side of Democracy,” Symposium at the London School of Economics (LSE).
2005	“Israel and Germany - Emotions, Realpolitik and Morality,” Conference on “What We Remember and What We Would Rather Forget. Collective Reminiscence and Collective Oblivion as Factors in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation,” Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB).
2005	“Different Concepts of a Jewish Democratic State,” Conference on “International Jewish Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multi-Culturalism,” Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico City.
2005	“State and Church in Europe - Recent Trends,” Conference on “State and Religion: A Hundred Years of French Law on the Separation of Church and State - Comparative Aspects with Israel,” Bar-Ilan University.
2005	“From Diversity to Congruence - Religion and State in Europe,” Symposium on the Dynamics of Church and State Relations, The European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), Budapest (Hungary).
2005	“The Rwandan Genocide in Historical Perspective,” Symposium on the Rwandan Genocide, Yad Vashem.
2005	“On the Stability of Democracies,” Symposium on “Open Knowledge - Freedom of Spirit,” The Open University of Israel.
2006	“Parties and Elections in Israel,” Symposium on “Israel and the Future of the Middle East,” Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid.
2006	“Black Zionism - Return to Africa in Theory and Praxis,” Conference on “African Diasporas - Flows across Time and Space,” Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University.
2006	“Israel between Ethnocracy and Liberal Democracy,” Conference on “Ethnicity and Nationalism in Divided Societies,” Tel Aviv University.
2006	“The Rwandan Genocide in Comparative Perspective,” Israeli Political Science Association Annual Meeting, The Open University of Israel.
2007	“On the Stability of Israel’s Democracy,” Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin.
2007	“Israel - Democratic Nation-State, Ethnic Democracy or Ethnocracy?,” International Colloquium on Jewish Ethnicity and Nationalism - Past and Present, Moscow.
2007	“Different Concepts of Israel’s Democracy,” Annual Association of Israel Studies (AIS), The Open University of Israel, Raanana.
2008	“Israel - A Democracy with Problems and Challenges,” Conference on “Youth, Democracy and the Development of Democracy in Israel and Germany,” Landesinstitut für Schulen und Medien, Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany.
2008	“Sub-Nationalism and Democracy,” Conference on “Nationalism and Democracy,” Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid.
2008	“Protection of Minorities in Democracies - The Arab Vision Papers in Comparative Perspective,” Conference on “Strategies of Jews and Arabs in Israel - From Conflict to Dialogue,” Truman Center, Hebrew University.
2008	“Primaries or Nominating Committee - Which to Prefer?,” Conference on “Primaries or Nominating Committee - The Crisis of Party Nominations in Israel,” Natanya Academic College.
2008	“National Self-Determination, Democracy and Human Rights,” Conference on “Nationalism and Human Rights,” Human Rights Research Committee of the International Political Science Association, Bilgi University, Istanbul.
2008	“Church and State in the 21st Century Europe - Towards Accommodation and Convergence,” Conference on “Globalization, Religion and the State,” Catholic Academy, Berlin.
2009	“U.S.-African Relations - From Truman to Obama,” Conference on “Cry My Beloved Continent - Africa in the 21st Century,” Tel-Aviv University.
2009	“Cooperation between Religion and State in Liberal Democracies,” Conference on “Religion, Politics, Society and the State - Israel in Comparative Perspective,” Bar-Ilan University.
2009	“Internal Wars in Africa: Classifications, Causes, and Ways to End Them,” Conference on “Civil Wars and Rehabilitation Processes: Theories and Case Studies,” Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University.
2009	“Herzl would have turned over in his grave: Israeli Policy towards African Migrant Workers,” Conference on “Migration Studies: Local and Universal Aspects,” Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel-Aviv University.
2009	“Four Democratic Church-State Models in Europe,” International Conference on “Secularism, Nationalism and Human Rights: Law and Politics in the Middle East and Europe,” Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law.
2009	“Mussolini and the Pope: Church-State Relations in Fascist Italy,” Conference on “Fascism: Ideology, Culture and Religion,” The Open University.
2009	“Why have Mitterand, Clinton and Kofi Annan not Prevented the Genocide in Rwanda?” International Conference on “Genocide Prevention - From Local Commemoration to Global Integration,” Tel-Aviv University.
2009	“The Concept of the Democratic Peace and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Conference on “Peace through Democracy - Origin, Impact and Interpretation of a Concept,” Berlin, European Academy (Heinrich Böll Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Die Schwelle).
2009	“Nation and Nationalism in the 21st Century,” Conference on “The Nation-State and Nationalism in the 21st Century,” Israeli-Lithuanian Forum, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyya (IDC).
2010	“Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the African State,” Conference on Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the Problem of Tolerance in a Globalizing World, International Political Science Association (Research Committee 14) and Russian Political Science Association, St. Petersburg Center for Humanities and Political Studies, St. Petersburg.
2010	“On Dealing with Multi-Ethnicity in Postcolonial Africa,” Research Committee on “Ethnicity and Politics” (RC 14) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), St. Petersburg.
2011	“Constraints in Democratic Education in Israel,” Symposium on “Education and Politics,” Beth Berl Labor College.
2011	“On the Stability of Israel’s Democracy,” Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University.
2011	“The Amish, the ‘Haredim’ and the Modern State,” Association for Israeli Studies Annual Meeting, Brandeis University.
2011	“What is a Nation? Comparative Perspectives,” Symposium on “Israeli Identities,” The Open University of Israel, Raanana.
2011	“Race Theory and Genocide in Africa,” Symposium in “Racism and Genocide in the Modern Era,” Tel Aviv University.
2011	“Israel - Democratic Nation-State, Ethnic Democracy or Ethnocracy?” Research Committee on “Ethnicity and Politics” (RC 14) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Raanana/Israel.