Moshe Berent

Moshe Berent (Hebrew: משה ברנט; born February 2, 1954) is a former Lecturer (retired) in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel.

Berent received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Technion in Haifa, Master's Degree in Philosophy under Prof. Joseph Agassi at Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Political History from the University of Cambridge. Berent's mentors include the sociologist and researcher of nationalism Ernest Gellner.

Berent's research interests include Ancient Greece and Israeli national identity.

Books Moshe Berent, Joseph Agassi, Judith Buber Agassi, Israeli National Consciousness, Pinchas Sapir Development Center, 1988. Moshe Berent, Joseph Agassi, Judith Buber Agassi, Who is an Israelite, Kivunim, 1991. Moshe Berent, A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic, Israel Academic Press 2015 (translated from the 2009 Hebrew edition by Carmel Publishing House). Moshe Berent, The Jewish Cause: An Introduction to a Different Israeli History, Carmel Publishing, 2019.

Articles Moshe Berent, Conscription of Arabs in the Army as a National Interest, on the Open University website, 2012. Stateless Polis: A Response to Criticism Social Evolution and History, Volume 5, Number 1. March 2006, pp. 141–163 Greece: a polis without a state, in The Early State: Its Alternatives and Analogues, edited by Leonid E. Grinin et al. (Volgograd, Russia, 2004) p. 364-387. Philosopher of the "State of God" or a communitarian? Review of "Philosophical Theory of the State" and related essays. Bernard Bosanquet, edited by Gerald F. Gaus and William Sweet (Chicago, 2001). European Heritage 9.4 (2004) 533-535 Consensus Politics and the Modern State (with Keith Sutherland), in Keith Sutherland (Editor), Rape the Constitution? (Torverton, 2000) Anthropology and the Classics: War, Violence, and the Stateless Polis, Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000), 257–289. Stasis, or the Greek Invention of Politics History of Political Thought, XIX, 3 (1998), pp. 331–362. Stateless polis, towards a new anthropological model of the ancient Greek community.