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Lecture: “Israel as a National and Liberal Model: From Marginalization to Role Model”

June 30, 2017
On June 29, 2017, the Pocitos Campus hosted a lecture titled “Israel as a National and Liberal Model: From Marginalization to Role Model,” presented by Dr. Alberto Spektorowski, professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at Tel Aviv University. The speaker provided an analysis of the State of Israel’s journey toward the consolidation of its democratic institutions. The event was organized by the university’s Department of Jewish Studies.

Spektorowski holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as a political advisor to former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, with whom he participated in the 2000 Camp David peace talks alongside Palestinian officials.

He is the author of the book The Origins of Argentina's Right-Wing Revolution (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), The Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and National Welfare (Routledge Press (2013) and Nationalizing Islam (forthcoming, State University of New York Press). He is a visiting professor at Universidad ORT Uruguay.

Interview with Dr. Spektorowski in the newspaper The Observer: When the price of peace is too high