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Benyamin Neuberger

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The Open University of Israel Department of Sociology Political Science and Communication 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107
Office:09-7781704 Mobile:050-2427212 Email:[email protected]

Areas of Interest
  • African politics
  • Israeli politics
  • Nationalism / Ethnic politics / Separatism
  • Religion and politics / Church and state
  • Comparative politics
  • Democratic theory

Benyamin Neuberger was born in Israel in 1943. He completed his BA  in political science and economics and an MA in African studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D degree in political science from Columbia University in New York. His Ph.D. thesis was “Concepts of Nationhood of Selected African Leaders.”
For thirty years he taught in the Department of African and Middle Eastern Studies at Tel-Aviv University. From 1977 until his retirement as full professor (emeritus) in 2012, he was a faculty member at The Open University of Israel. Since then, he has been teaching at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya.
 Prof. Neuberger has taught and conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Oxford University, Brandeis University, University of Cape Town, University of Swaziland, and Moscow State University. He has published widely on Israeli politics, African politics, Israeli democracy, the theory of democracy, and nationalism.

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1975
PhD, Political Science, Columbia University, New York
1969
M.A., African Studies, The: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1967
BA, Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1967
BA, Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012
Snowden Fellow, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
2012 -
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
2011 -
Research Associate, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims, The Open University of Israel
2011 -
Research Associate, Institute for Policy Analysis, The Open University of Israel
2011
Visiting Scholar, Brandeis University
2008 -
Adjunct Professor in Political Science and International Relations, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
2007 -
Research Fellow, The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies (Tel Aviv University)
2003 - 2005
Visiting Scholar, Yarnton Center for Jewish and Hebrew Studies (Oxford)
2003 - 2005
Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College (Oxford)
2001
Visiting Professor, Moscow State University
1996 - 1998
Floersheimer Institute Fellow
1994 - 1997
Truman Institute Fellow (Hebrew University)
1994 - 2002
Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
1994 - 2012
Professor of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1988
Visiting Professor, Department of Government, University of Cape Town
1987 - 2010
Adjunct Professor of Political Science,  Department of Social Studies, Beth Berl Labor College
1987 - 1994
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
1987 - 1994
Associate Professor of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1983 - 1984
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Haverford College
1983 - 1985
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
1978 - 1987
Senior Lecturer,  Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
1978 - 1987
Senior Lecturer of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1975 - 1978
Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University and Department of Political Science / Bar Ilan University
2014
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Israel Political Science Association
2012
Snowden Fellowship - Elizabethtown College, PA
2010
Research Grant - The Open University of Israel
1996
Floersheimer Institute Research Grant
1994 - 2000
Netherlands Israel Research Programme (NIRP) Grant
1994 - 1995
Truman Institute Fellowship - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1984 - 1985
Penn-Israel Fellowship - University of Pennsylvania
1983
Richard Luyt Grant - Shiloah Centre for Middle Eastern Studies - Tel Aviv University
1982
Hanan Yavor Grant for Research on Israeli-African Relations - Tel Aviv University
1976
Jewish Memorial Foundation Grant
1969 - 1972
Columbia University Fellowship
2011 - 2012
Steering Committee - International Workshop - International Workshop on “Holocaust and Genocide,” The Israeli National Academy of Science
2011
Organizing Committee - Annual Workshop of Research Committee 14 of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Raanana, The Open University of Israel
2011
Organizing Committee - Annual International Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
2009 - 2014
Steering Committee - The Labor Party Archives​
2007 - 2014
Steering Committee on Inter-University African Studies in Israel
2006
Academic Advisor, European Union of Jewish Students, Group visit to Rwanda
2000 - 2014
Member, Executive Board - Research Committee on Ethnicity and Politics, International Political Science Association (IPSA)
2006 - 2010
Head of Democracy Studies graduate program, The Open University of Israel
1999 - 2000
Joint Israeli-Palestinian Committee for the Teaching of Civics and History in Israel and Palestine, The Rothschild Foundation
1998 - 2000
Chairman, Professional Committee for the Teaching of Civics, Ministry of Education
1997 - 1999
Chairman, Department of Sociology and Political Science, The Open University of Israel
1997 - 1999
Member, Executive Committee of the Israeli Political Science Association
1995 - 1996
Member, Advisory Committee on Civics Education in Israeli Schools, Ministry of Education (“Kremnitzer Committee”)
1995
Teaching course in “Distance Education Writing”, Swaziland (Southern Africa)
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)
1987 - 1996
Simulation games in International Relations - Command and Staff College of the IDF
1986 - 1988
Advisor to Israeli Educational Television on Education for Democracy
1985 - 1986
Director of Teaching, The Open University of Israel
1982 - 1983
Chairman of Social Science Committee, The Open University of Israel
1975 - 1980
Scholar in Residence of the World Zionist Organization in Philadelphia (1975), Dayton (1976, Harrisburg (1978) and Chicago (1980)
1986 - 1993
Member of the Committee for the Development of a Social Science Curriculum for Israeli High Schools, Ministry of Education
1975 - 1976
Coordinator of academic course for Chairmen of Israeli Workers’ Councils, Beth Berl College

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"מהי דמוקרטיה ומהי דמוקרטיה יציבה", מדעי החברה שכדאי לדעת, אוניברסיטת תל אביב, 2021

Rwanda 1994: Genocide in the “Land of a Thousand Hills” (Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing, 2017) 

Israel's Relations with the Third World (1948-2008) (Tel-Aviv, The Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel-Aviv University, 2009).

Religion and Democracy in Israel (Jerusalem, The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, 1997) [English and Hebrew]

National Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa (Boulder/Colorado, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986).

Involvement, Invasion and Withdrawal: Quadhafi’s Libya and Chad 1969-1981 (Tel-Aviv, Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1982).

Africa-Islam, Christianity and Judaism [with A. Layish and Y. Gershoni] (Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, 1999) [H]

State, Government and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1996) [H]

Government and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1987) [H]

Society and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1978) [Hebrew]

“The Occupied Territories and the Deterioration of Israel’s Democracy,” (Carmelion, Digital Publishing, 2018), pp. 64-70.  

“From Liberal Nationalism to Extreme Nationalism in Israel,” in Daniel Bar-Tal (ed.), How Much Does it Cost Us – this Conflict (Carmel Digital Publishing, 2018), pp. 35-38.​

“From Liberal Democracy to Ethnocracy: Different Conceptions of Israel's Democracy,” in Eliezer Ben-Rafael et. al. (eds.), Handbook of Israel - Major Debates (De Gruyter, Oldenbourg 2016), pp. 705-740.

“Das politische System,” in Gisela Dachs (ed.), Länderbericht Israel (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Bonn 2016), pp. 314-333.

“Kurdish Nationalism in Comparative Perspective,” in Ofra Bengio (ed.), Kurdish Awakening - Nationbuilding in a Fragmented Homeland (Texas University Press, 2014), pp. 15-35.

“Israel Should Encourage a Greater Understanding of the Universality of Genocide,” in M. Haerens (ed.), Global Viewpoints: Genocide (Cengage Learning, Independence, KY, 2012), pp. 41-45.

“Cooperation between Church and State in Liberal Democracies,” in J. Fox (ed.), Religion, Politics, Society and the State (Paradigm Publishers, 2011), pp. 11-26.

“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].

“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.

“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.]

“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.

“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.

“Self-Defending Democracy in Israel” in Markus Thiel (ed.), The ‘Militant Democracy’ Principle in Modern Democracies (Ashgate Publishing, 2009), pp. 183-207.

“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.

“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].

“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].

“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].

“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 and Mizkar no. 49 (Sept. 2016), pp. 26–29.

“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].

“African Nationalism” in G. Delanty and K. Kumar (eds.), Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (London, Sage, 2006), pp. 513-526.

“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].

“Les partis ethnoculturels en Israël” in J. Tournon and R. Maiz (eds.), Ethnicisme et politique (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2005), pp. 161-190.

“Education and Liberal Democracy in Israel” in Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Yarnton/Oxford, 2004), pp. 32-52.

“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.

“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]

“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.

“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].

“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].

“Democracy and Democratization in Africa” in E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Steinberg (eds.), Identity, Culture and Globalization (Leiden, Brill, 2001), pp. 193-204.

“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.

“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].

“Social Cleavages and Political Parties” in Israel - State, Society and Politics (Jerusalem, PASSIA, 2000), pp. 19-22.

“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.

“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]

“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.

“Religion and State in Israel” in Palestine, Jordan, Israel (Jerusalem, PASSIA, 1997), pp. 100-114.

“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.

“Israel’s New Basic Laws - Discussion and Disagreement” in State, Government and Politics (Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1996) pp. 238-249 [H].

“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].

“State and Nation in African Thought” in J. Hutchinson and A. Smith (eds.), Nationalism - A Reader (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 231-235.

“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.

“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].

“Irredentism and Politics in Africa” in N. Chasan (ed.), Irredentism in International Politics (Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991), pp. 97-110.

“Early Pan-Africanism, Judaism and Zionism - W.E.B. Du-Bois” in The 1989 African Studies Association Annual Meeting Papers (Atlanta, Emory University, 1990).

“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].

“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].

“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.

“Israel and Liberal Democracy” in N. Gertz (ed.), Society and Politics in Israel (Tel Aviv, Open University of Israel, 1988), pp. 105-126 [H].

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 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.

Federalism and Political Integration in Africa” in D. Elazar (ed.), Federalism and Political Integration (Ramat Gan, Turtledove, 1979), pp. 171-190.

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).

"The Development and Gradual Decline of Israel's Democracy",  Israel Studies, 2021 (forthcoming)

“Journalism, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Democracy in Israel,” Conflict & Communication Online, Vol. 20 / No. 1 (April 2021), with Keren-Miriam Adam.

"Israel's Unstable Democracy in Comparative Perspective", Israel Affairs (Abingdon, OX: Routlege, Francis and Taylor, 2020), 1-21, [online] https://doi.org/10,1080/13537121.2020.1832325

Israel’s Unstable Democracy in Comparative Perspective,” Israel Affairs (Routledge, published online 14 Oct. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2020.1832325

“Democratic and Non-Democratic Roots of Israeli Politics,” Israel Studies Review, Vol. 34, Issue 2, Autumn 2019, pp. 1-20.

“Civil Wars and Genocide in Africa,” Politika 2017, also online http://davis.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/davisinst/files/Symposium_2016.pdf pp. 8–15.

“The Image of the Amish in the New York Times versus the Image of the Haredim in Ha'aretz (1980-2-010),” Conflict and Communication Online, Vol. 13, No.1 (2014), pp. 1-17.

“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.

“État juif et démocratique: Essai de définition,” Les temps modernes, Vol. 64, Nos. 652-653 (Jan.-April 2009), pp. 19-45.

“Self-Defending Democracy in Israel 1948-2008,” Social Issues in Israel, No. 6 (2008), pp. 68-93 [H].

“Education for Democracy in Israel: Structural Impediments and Basic Dilemmas,” International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 27 (2007), pp. 292-305.

“Genocide in Rwanda - The Dark Side of Democracy?” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 2006), pp. 402-407.

“Israel und Deutschland: Emotionen, Realpolitik und Moral,” Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, No. 15 (April 2005), pp. 14-22.

“Rwanda 1994 - Nothing Short of Genocide,” Historia - The Journal of the Israeli Historical Association, No. 12 (2003), pp. 33-56 [H].

“Between Ideology and Sociology - Parties in Israel 1950-2000,” State and Society [Haifa University] Vol. I, No. 1 (December 2001), pp. 79-87 [H].

“National Self-Determination - A Theoretical Perspective,” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 391-418.

“Religion and State in Europe and Israel,” Israel Affairs, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 1999), pp. 65-84.

“Black Nationalism, Jews and Zionism,” Past and Future - Journal of Jewish Education, Culture and Discourse, Vol. 2, No. 3 (April 1996), pp. 18-22.

“Colonialism and the Creation of Ethnicity in Africa,” Migration, No. 28 (1995), pp. 55-66.

“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).

“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].

“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)].

“The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics - From Marginality to Influence,” Asian and African Studies, Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2 (July 1993), pp. 149-169.

“The Withdrawal ‘South of Suez’ - Great Britain and Postcolonial Africa,” Asian and African Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (July 1992), pp. 95-100.

“Israel’s Democracy and Comparative Studies,” Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. I, Nos. 3-4 (Fall 1989), pp. 67-75.

“Israel and the Third World,” International Problems, XXVII, Nos. 3-4 (1988), pp. 8-21 [H].

“History and African Concepts of Nationhood,” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (Spring 1987), pp. 161-179.

“W.E.B. Du-Bois on Black Nationalism and Zionism,” Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (December 1986), pp. 139-144.

“Early African Nationalism, Judaism and Zionism: E.W. Blyden,” Jewish Social Studies, XLVII, No. 2 (Spring 1985), pp. 151-165.

“On Dealing with Multiethnicity in Europe and Africa,” Plural Societies, XV, No. 3 (The Hague, October 1984), pp. 239-254.

“Natural and Artificial Boundaries: The African View,” International Problems, XVII, No. 1 (Spring 1978), pp. 95-102.

“State and Nation in African Thought,” Journal of African Studies, IV, No. 2 (University of California, Summer 1977), pp. 198-205.

“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).

“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].

“The Western-Nation-State in African Perceptions of Nation Building,” Asian and African Studies, XI, No. 2 (Hebrew University, 1976), pp. 241-261.

“The Concept of Balkanization,” Journal of Modern African Studies, XIII, No. 3 (Cambridge University, September 1976), pp. 523-529.

“Racial Nationalism in Black Africa,” Wiener Library Bulletin, XXVIII, Nos. 35/36 (October 1975), pp. 50-56.

“Has the Single Party State Failed in Africa?” African Studies Review, XVII, No. 1 (April 1974), pp. 173-178.

“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].

“The Concept of Democracy: African Definitions,” International Problems, XVI, Nos. 3-4 (1972), pp. 71-79 [H].

“Classless Society in One-Party-State Ideology in Africa,” African Studies Review, XIV, No. 2 (September 1971), pp. 287-292.

From Military Government to the Vision Papers: The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics (2016), 119 pp.

 Israeli Democracy: Roots, Development, Crises, Flaws (2016), 135 pp.

Africa in International Relations (2011) 233 pp.

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

Fascist Italy (2009) 220 pp.

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

Democracies and Dictatorships - Ideas, Contexts, Regimes: Vol. I Democracies (2004) 288 pp.

Democracies and Dictatorships - Ideas, Contexts, Regimes:Vol. II Dictatorships (2004) 222 pp.

The Military in African Politics (2003) 80 pp.

Democracy, Democratization and De-democratization in Africa (2003) 116 pp.

Anticolonial Nationalism - The Ideological Dimension (1997) 183 pp. [with E. Keren]

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]

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]

11. Democracy in Israel - Origins and Development (1989) 145 pp. [Updated version in Russian, 1997; Updated and revised version, 1998]

Modern Democracy: Ideological Roots and Basic Concepts (1985) 152 pp.

Totalitarianism - Despotism in the Modern Era (1983) 125 pp.

Fascism - Ideology and Politics (1983) 160 pp.

Government and Succession in Black Africa (1981) 130 pp.

From White Rule to Black Nationhood: Ideological Currents in Africa (1980) 142 pp.

The Ethnic Problem in Africa and the Wars of Katanga and Biafra (1980) 186 pp.

Alon Gal et al. (eds), “In the Democratic Way: On the Historical Sources of the Israeli Democracy,” Kivunim Hadashim No. 33 (December 2015), pp. 194–198 [Hebrew]

Ben-Yehuda, N., “Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism,” Israel Studies Review, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Summer 2013), pp. 160-162.

Handelman, D., “Nationalism and the Israeli State,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 2006), pp. 380-382.

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].

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.

Smith, A., “Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 2003), pp. 455-456.

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].

Maddox, G. and Welliner, T., “Colonialism and Nationalism in Africa,” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XXVI (1999), pp. 166-167.

Hashim, A.B., “The Fallen State: Dissonance, Dictatorship and Death in Somalia,” African Studies Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (December 1999), pp. 220-222.

Confino, 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].  

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].

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].

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.

Schlegel, D., “Der Neue Nationalismus - Ursachen, Chancen, Gefahren,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1996), pp. 155-158.

Mosse, G., “Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism” (Hanover/NH 1993), Nations and Nationalism, Vol. I, No. 2 (1995), pp. 261-265.

Heid, L. and Paucker, A., “Juden und deutsche Arbeiterbewegung bis 1933,” Gesher - Journal of Jewish Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 130 (1995), pp. 106-108.

Decalo, S., “Psychoses of Power: African Personal Dictatorships” (Boulder 1989), African Studies Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (December 1989), pp. 146-147.

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“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.

“Blyden,” The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, (Wiley and Sons, Wiley Online Library, 5 vols), 2015.

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2018 - “The Phenomenon of the ‘Big Man’ in Africa” - Conference on “Strong Leaders in Asia and the World,” University of Haifa

2018 - “Modernization and Ethnic Mobilization in African Cities” - Conference on “Nationalism in Times of Uncertainty,” Graz University, Austria

2018 - “Israel’s Declaration of Independence – Democratic or not?” -  Conference on “The Long 1948,” Ra’anana, The Open University of Israel

2017 - “Solving the Arab/Palestinian - Israeli/Jewish Conflict 1917-2017: Constitutional Designs” - in Conference on Democratization and Constitutional Design in Divided Societies, International Political Science Association, University of Cyprus, Nicosia

 -2016 “Civil Wars and Genocide in Africa” - Conference on Citizens in Intra-state Conflicts, the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel

2016 - “The Amish and Freedom of Religion: Compromise in American Democracy” - Conference on Continuity and Change in Amish Society, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, USA

2015 - “Liberal Nationalism, Integral Nationalism and Religion”  - Conference on Old and New Religions and National Aspects in Contemporary Antisemitism, Kantor Center, Tel-Aviv University International Seminar, Israel

2015 -  “Territorial Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts within States” - Conference on Rethinking Territoriality Between Independence and Interdependence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

2014 - “The Murder of the Herero in German South West Africa: The First Genocide in the Twentieth Century” - International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, Ra’anana – The Open University of Israel

2013 - “From Colonial Race Theory to Postcolonial Genocide,” School of History, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).

2013 - “Indigenous Discourse and Response: The Palestinian Minority and the Jewish Majority in Israel, Research Committee on “Ethnicity and Politics,” (R14)  The International Political Science Association (IPSA) , Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

2013 - “Cuba in Africa During the Cold War,” International Conference on “Cuba: Myth and Reality - Culture, History, Politics,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2013 - “The Israeli Elections 2013: What's New, What Directions?,” School of Political Science, Haifa University

2012 - “Ultra-Orthodox Communities and the Modern State: The Israeli Haredim and the American Amish,” Annual Snowden Lecture, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.

2011 - “Fascism, Racism, and Sexism,” Conference on “Democracy, Feminism, and Human Rights,” The College of Administration, Rishon Lezion.

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.

2011 - “Race Theory and Genocide in Africa,” Symposium in “Racism and Genocide in the Modern Era,” Tel Aviv University.

2011 - “What is a Nation? Comparative Perspectives,” Symposium on “Israeli Identities,” The Open University of Israel, Raanana.

2011 - “The Amish, the ‘Haredim’ and the Modern State,” Association for Israeli Studies Annual Meeting, Brandeis University.

2011 - “The Role of Religion in Contemporary Europe,” Conference on “Challenges of Democracy: Eruption and Erosion,” Jerusalem, Van Leer Institute.

2011 - “On the Stability of Israel’s Democracy,” Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University.

2011 - “Constraints in Democratic Education in Israel,” Symposium on “Education and Politics,” Beth Berl Labor College.

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

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.

“The majority does (not) define democracy,” Open University News No. 7 (April 2017) pp. 10-13

“Different Concepts of a Jewish Democratic State,” Ba'shaar, http:/www.bashaar.org.il/New_Seriesasp?cType=13 (2014

“The Refusal to Serve in the Military - The Case of the Amish,” Ma'arachot,  IDF 2014, No. 455, pp. 48-51.

“The Struggles of the Amish in Education,” Panim - Quarterly for Society, Culture and Education (The Israeli Teachers Association) No. 65. (Tel Aviv, 2014) pp. 84-92.

“Parteienlandschaft: Spiegelbild einer komplexen Gesellschaft,” in G. Dachs, Israel - kurzgefasst (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2010), pp. 56–60. [updated version, 2013, pp. 65-71and 2016, pp. 75–81].

“Politisches System: Westliche Demokratie mit Eigenheiten,” in G. Dachs, Israel - kurzgefasst (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2010), pp. 50–55. [updated version, 2013, pp. 56-64 and 2016, pp. 64–67].

“Die Bedeutung der Religion im Staat Israel,” bpb: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, March 2008. Also in Themenheft 2016, Bad Nauheim: Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit  (2016), pp. 56–58.

“Israel’s Democracy Has Four Flaws,” www.democracy.co.il, 5 December 2008, 3 pp. [H].

“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].

“Staatsaufbau und politisches System in Israel,” Informationen zur Politischen Bildung, No. 278 (2003), pp. 14-24 [updated version, April 2008, pp. 29-40].

“The Attitude towards the Arabs is the Real Test,” Sada A Tarbiya, Vol. 50 (Summer 2002), pp. 33-35 [Arabic].

“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].

“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].

“Democracy with Stains,” Panim - Quarterly for Society, Culture and Education, No. 9 (Spring 1999), pp. 104-108 [H].

“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].

“Die politischen und rechtlichen Strukturen,” Das Parlament, Nr 14 (March 1998).

“Gesellschaft und Parteien in Israel,” Das Parlament, Nr 14 (March 1998).

“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].

“Wars and Violence in Africa - Causes and Background Conditions,” Mosaic, No. 6, 1996), pp. 7-18 [H].

“Democracy and National Security,” Mosaic, No. 3 (The Open University 1996) [Editor and Introduction] [H].

“War and Peace,” Mosaic, No. 5 (The Open University 1996) [Editor with N. Gertz] [H].

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].

“Black Nationalism, Judaism and Zionism,” Israel-Africa Bulletin (Spring 1995), pp. 3-5 [Also published in French].

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].

What is Zionism? [Russian/translated], Scholarly Discussion Series of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow 1995.

“Zwei Israelis, drei Meinungen - Israels Kurs im Friedensprozess spiegelt die Vielfalt der Parteien wider,” Der Überblick, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1995), pp. 11-16.

Minorities in Democracies (Jerusalem, Ministry of Education, 1995), 37 pp. [H].

“Democracy and Democratization in Africa,” Israel Africa Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 2 (Winter 1994), pp. 3-4 [Also published in French].

“From Blyden to Mandela - Black Nationalism and the Jews,” Special Open University Supplement of Ha’aretz (July 1994) [H].

“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].

“Modern Democracy - A Comparative Perspective,” Monthly Review, No. 3 (May 1992), pp. 23-34 [H].

“Israel and the Third World,” Spectrum: Israel Labour Movement Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 6 (June 1990), pp. 22-23.

“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].

“The West German Model and Israeli Electoral reform,” Israeli Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1989), pp. 4-7.

Israel’s Democracy: How Liberal? How Stable? (Cape Town, Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies 1988), 33 pp.

“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].

“Greater Israel and Liberal Democracy,” Israel Democracy, Vol. I, No. 4 (Israel-Diaspora Institute / Tel Aviv University 1987), pp. 30-35.

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“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].

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