Daniel Bertrand Monk

Daniel Bertrand Monk

Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle East Studies. He is the [co] author/editor of An Aesthetic Occupation, The Global Shelter Imaginary, The Post-Conflict Environment, and Evil Paradises, as well as a number of other studies on the Israel-Palestine conflict, neoliberal spatial practices, and humanitarian reason. Monk has been awarded Mac-Arthur IPS and Woodrow Wilson Fellowships for his research on the history of strategic interaction in the Israel/Palestine conflict and its attendant spatial practices, as well as a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for his research on the reifications of peace that attend post-war state and capacity building efforts. He is also the recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations TIRS Fellowship [declined].

Daniel Bertrand Monk

An Israeli Civil War: From Public Secret to Shared Illusion

by Daniel J. Levine & Daniel Bertrand Monk | 17 August, 2023 | Featured, Security, States & Regions

For nearly three decades, a pervasive, unspoken fear of civil war created an "ugly stalemate" in Israel, a 'public secret' that pervaded its electoral politics and foreign relations. Thanks to the government's attempted "judicial overhaul," that fear is now very much in the open, Almost overnight, the Israeli public has developed a shared imaginary in which a civil war is not only thinkable, but familiar. How did this happen? What does it mean for Israeli politics? Statism and Revisionism The recent "stalemate" in Israeli politics reflects longstanding tensions within Zionist ideology. As...

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