Dov Waxman

Dov Waxman is Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies at Northeastern University and the co-director of its Middle East Center. An expert on Israel, his research focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli foreign policy, U.S.-Israel relations, and American Jewry’s relationship with Israel. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and his B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University. He has previously taught at the City University of New York, Bowdoin College, and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He has been a visiting fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, the Avraham Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University. He has also worked as a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. He is the author of three books: The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (Palgrave, 2006), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (with Ilan Peleg, Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). His articles have been published in journals such as Political Science Quarterly, The Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, International Studies Perspectives, The Washington Quarterly, Dissent, and World Policy Journal. He is a frequent contributor to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, and a regular guest commentator on Al Jazeera America.