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Author: Dr. Ben Mollov

Dr. Ben Mollov is on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences and the Program in Conflict Management at Bar-Ilan University. In addition to his interest in the Jewish political tradition, he has been specializing in interreligious and intercultural approaches to conflict management and has published in the Journal of Church and State and the International Journal of Conflict Management.

Daniel J. Elazar: Federalism, Brit, and Implications for Israeli Society

March 1, 2007 |Dr. Ben Mollov

Daniel J. Elazar saw the idea of societal partnership-rooted in the Judaic idea of brit, a key explanatory element in the Jewish political tradition-as the basis of federalism. In his view, brit as the foundation of federalism essentially concerns interaction and relationships. Elazar's approach to federalism has possible applications to contemporary schisms in Israeli society.

Managing Conflict: Can Religion Succeed Where Politics Has Failed? An Israeli Addresses a Global Peace Forum in Malaysia

November 1, 2006 |Dr. Ben Mollov

Ultimately, religion defines identity among Jews and Arabs in the Middle East, and is the basic element upon which the Jewish attachment to the Land of Israel is based. In parallel, the Arab political awakening and worldview also draws its own attachment to the same land from religious sources.

The Jewish Experience as an Influence on Hans J. Morgenthau’s Realism

April 30, 2000 |Dr. Ben Mollov

Hans J. Morgenthau was probably the foremost exponent of the school of political realism in the academic discipline of international relations in the United States and has left a permanent imprint on the thinking of both theoreticians and practitioners in the field. A product of a European education, he fled Nazi Ger many for the U.S. during the Hitler years, and had a distinguished career at the University of Chicago and the City University of New York. This article explores certain little known aspects of the Jewish experience which affected him such as the impact of searing anti Semitism, and his subsequent activism in Jewish causes.

The Role of Religion in Conflict Resolution: An Israeli Palestinian Student Dialogue

April 15, 1999 |Dr. Ben Mollov