Professor Guy Ben Porat
Visiting Faculty Member
Professor Guy Ben Porat is a distinguished scholar in political science and international relations, having earned his doctorate in political science and government from Johns Hopkins University. His doctoral dissertation, titled “Globalization, Peace, and Discontent: Israel and Northern Ireland,” laid the foundation for his book, Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, which received the Ernst-Otto Czempiel award from the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. His other areas of research include international relations, comparative politics, the relationship between religion and state and processes of secularization in Israel, and the relationship between the police and minorities in Israel and the global community. His research on the impact of economic and demographic changes on religious and secular identities in Israel won awards from the Association for Israel Studies and the Israeli Political Science Association. Guy is a full professor in the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he served as department head from 2018 to 2022. In his work at the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev, Guy teaches topics in government, policy, and local government, with a focus on the Negev, and is involved in shaping the Mandel Program for Senior Executive Leadership in the Negev.
