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Professor Dov Waxman specializes in International Relations and Middle East politics, especially concerning Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has been a visiting fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, a visiting scholar at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a visiting fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and the co-author of the forthcoming book Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Perspectives, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, The Washington Quarterly, The Middle East Quarterly, Current History, World Policy Journal, Israel Studies, and Israel Affairs, among others. He was the Associate Editor of the scholarly journal Israel Studies Forum from 2005-2010, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Israel Studies. Professor Waxman is also a faculty member of the Political Science and the Middle Eastern Studies programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations (POL 2240)
The Modern Middle East (POL / HIS 3086)
Selected Publications (click for full text)
“The Israel Lobbies: A Survey of the Pro-Israel Community in the United States,” Israel Studies Forum 25, 1 (2010): 5-28.
“From Jerusalem to Baghdad? Israel and the War in Iraq,” International Studies Perspectives 10, 1 (February 2009), pp. 1-17.
Waxman, Dov and Peleg, Ilan. “Neither Ethnocracy nor Bi-Nationalism: In Search of the Middle Ground,” Israel Studies Forum 23, 2 (Fall 2008), pp. 55-73.
Waxman, Dov and Rynhold, Jonathan. “Ideological Change and Israel’s Disengagement from Gaza,” Political Science Quarterly 123, no. 1 (2008), pp. 1-27.
Peleg, Ilan and Waxman, Dov. “Losing Control? A Comparison of Majority-Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 13, 3 (2007), pp. 431-463.
"Between Victory and Defeat: Israel after the War with Hizballah," The Washington Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1 (Winter 2006-07): 27-43.
"Israel's Dilemma: Unity or Peace?" Israel Affairs, vol. 12, no. 2 (April 2006).
"From Controversy to Consensus: Cultural Conflict and the Israeli Debate Over Territorial Withdrawal," Israel Studies, vol. 13, no. 2: 73-96
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