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

June 30, 2017
On June 29, 2017, the lecture “Israel as a National and Liberal Model: From Marginalization to Exemplar” was held at the Pocitos Campus, 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, alongside Palestinian officials, in the Camp David peace talks in 2000.

He is the author of the books *The Origins of Argentina’s Revolution of the Right* ( 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 El Observador: When the Price of Peace Is Too High