Ronen Shoval

Visiting Fellow

Dr. Ronen Shoval is a Visiting Fellow in Jewish and Political Thought at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His work focuses on the deep interplay between theology, politics, and society.

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Dr. Ronen Shoval is a Visiting Fellow in Jewish and Political Thought at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His work focuses on the deep interplay between theology, politics, and society.

He holds a B.A. in International Relations and Humanities and an M.A. in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he completed his dissertation on political theology with honors. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy summa cum laude from Paris Nanterre University. He is Dean of the Argaman Institute in Jerusalem and, most recently, served as an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University. In 2006, he received the Begin Center Award for Outstanding Academic Research.

He is the author of Herzl’s Vision 2.0, as well as academic and popular articles on theology, politics, and society. His forthcoming book, Holiness and Society: A Socio-Political Exploration of the Mosaic Tradition, will be published by Routledge in 2024.

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The Last Fortress: A Stand for Survival

Ronen Shoval

People in Western civilization tend to think that fundamentalist Islam does not mean what it says.

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The Shoval Perspective / April 1, 2024

Into the Vortex: Unraveling the Fabric of American Extremism

Ronen Shoval

The dynamics of ideological shifts, as observed through the Overton Window theory, extend beyond national politics, permeating even the internal structures of global organizations.

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The Shoval Perspective / March 26, 2024

Art and Politics in Roger Scruton’s Conservative Philosophy

Ronen Shoval

Scruton argued that art, culture, and tradition are not only intrinsically valuable but also essential to a community’s social and moral fabric.

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The Shoval Perspective / March 18, 2024

Navigating the Fault Lines: Biden’s Missteps in Middle East Policy

Ronen Shoval

At the heart of the Biden administration’s Middle Eastern strategy lies a perilous echo of past misjudgments, reminiscent of America’s historical foreign policy blunders in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

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The Shoval Perspective / March 13, 2024

Deconstructing Myths: Between People and Nations

Ronen Shoval

National movements justify the existence of a nation-state in order to serve self-determination.

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The Shoval Perspective / March 5, 2024

The article American Jews don’t want to read

Ronen Shoval

American Jews can no longer afford to hide their heads in the sand and say, “It can’t happen here.”

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Jewish News Syndicate / February 25, 2024

After the Horror, Resolve

Ronen Shoval

The whole world must now see that when Hamas say, “Free Palestine,” it means to eradicate the Jews from Israel by any means, however brutal, however barbaric.

The European Conservative / October 24, 2023