Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University
Dov Waxman is professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies, and the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University. He is also the co-director of the university’s Middle East Center. His research focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli politics and society, U.S.-Israel relations, and American Jewry’s relationship with Israel. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. 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; and he has been a visiting fellow at Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Oxford University. He has also worked as a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. 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, 2016). He is a frequent commentator in print, on radio, and on television, and he has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.
US is unlikely to stop giving military aid to Israel
Aug 24, 2024 07:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
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Jan 30, 2024 08:42 am UTC| Insights & Views
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Oct 09, 2023 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
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Israel's democracy protests: What happens next?
Aug 22, 2023 04:23 am UTC| Politics
The massive pro-democracy protests that shook Israel since January 2023, when its right-wing government introduced so-called judicial reforms, have quieted down for a while. The countrys legislature is on a break. But the...
Israel suspends formal annexation of the West Bank, but its controversial settlements continue
Aug 14, 2020 15:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Editors note: In a historic agreement announced by President Trump on Aug. 13, Israel has suspended its plan to formally annex parts of the contested West Bank territory, in exchange for establishing full diplomatic...
Netanyahu's meeting with Trump: Good for Israeli-Palestinian peace?
Feb 16, 2017 00:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
At their meeting at the White House today, U.S. President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold back on settlements for a little bit. There are now more than 400,000 Israelis living in...