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David Newman is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion
University (since 2010) and Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics there. He founded the Department of Politics and Government at BGU in 1998 and served as its first chairperson until 2003. He also facilitated the establishment of the Center for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) in 2003. He has been the Chief Editor of the International journal of
Geopolitics for a period of fifteen years before stepping down in 2014.
Prof. Newman obtained his PhD at the University of Durham (1981), and his BA from the
University of London (1978). His research is primarily concerned with issues of borders and settlements and is an active member of a number of border networks, including ABS, IBRU,
ABORNE and BRIT. He is currently a consortium member of the EU FP7 research project
(including 19 universities throughout Europe) entitled EUROBORDERSCAPES, the RELATE consortium of the Finnish Academy of Sciences on Territory and Nationalism; and the SSHRC
Consortium (Canadian Academy of Sciences), on Borders and Globalization.
In 2013 Prof Newman was awarded the OBE by the British Government for his efforts in promoting scientific cooperation between Israel and the UK. In addition to his academic writing,
Newman writes a weekly commentary column for the Jerusalem Post covering political, academic and Israeli-Jewish topics – as of 2014 this has reached 350 columns over a period of fifteen years.
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1. Personal Details
David Newman.
Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Department of Politics and Government,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, 84105. email: newman@bgu.ac.il
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2. Education
B.A. (Honours), 1978, Department of Geography, Queen Mary College, University of
London.
Ph.D. December, 1981. (Dunelm) University of Durham, England.
3. Employment History
Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
2010-2016.
Full Professor, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the
Negev, 2003 - Present.
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben
Gurion University of the Negev, 1996 – 2003..
Research Fellow, Center for International and Strategic Studies, York University, Ontario,
Canada, 1994-1995.
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, York University, Ontario, Canada,
1994-1995.
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Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
1993-1994.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1989 -
1995.
Lecturer, Department of Geography, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1987-1989.
Senior Research Fellow, Settlement Study Centre, Rehovot, 1984-1986. Co-Director of
Planning Evaluation project of Community (Rurban) Settlements in Israel.
Lecturer, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University, 1983-1986.
Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University, 1982-1983.
4. Professional Activities.
a) International
Member of Working Groups and Commissions, IBG, AAG, IPSA, ECPR, BRIT, IBRU,
ABS.
Reviewer of submitted manuscripts to over 30 Q1 and Q2 journals within the fields of
Political Geography, Geopolitics, Political Science, International Relations, Israel Studies, etc; (approx. 60 manuscripts since 2000)
Reviewer of research proposals for Academy of Sciences in Britain, USA, Canada, Finland etc; - approx. 15-20 reviews since 2000), ISF (in Israel), and a range of international funding agencies (Ford, Macarthur, Leverhulme, Social Science Research Councils etc;).
HUMBRIS – Israel-Britain project on the Humanities – Auspices of the British Council and the Akademia, 2012 – ongoing.
Representative of Israeli Universities (IAB – International Academic Board on Academic
Freedom) in the UK on matters relating to the Academic Boycott, 2007-2008.
Vice-President, Israel Geographical Association, 1997-1998.
Member of the Working Commission on the World Political Map of the International
Geographical Union (IGU): 1996-2000; re-elected for second term, 2000-2004; third term
2004-2008; Honorary Secretary, 2008-2012.
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Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010-2016
Representative of Ben Gurion University Foundation in the UK, 2006-2008.
Member of University Senate, October 2004-September 2006: October 2008 – ongoing.
Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, October 2004-September 2006; 2009-2010;
Chairperson (Dean) 2010-2016.
Chairperson, Steering Committee, Center for the Study of European Politics and Society,
Ben Gurion University, January 2003 – present.
Director, Distinguished Visitors Program, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1998 -
2004.
Chairperson, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer Sheva, Israel, May 1998 – July 2002.
Founder, Center for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben Gurion University,
Founder, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University.
Steering Committee, Chaim Herzog Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Diplomacy,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1996 – 2008: 2010- present.
Planning and Development Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben
Gurion University of the Negev, 1996 – 2000.
Director, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Social Research , Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1995 - 1998. c) Academic Journals
Chairperson of the International Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Borderland Studies ,
January 2009 – present.
Editor, International Journal of GEOPOLITICS (formerly, Geopolitics and International
Boundaries ), 1998 – 2014 (Frank Cass Publishers until 2004: Taylor-Francis (Routledge)
Publishers from 2005). Respnsibility for 16 years – approx. 60 issues – 500 manuscripts.
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International Editorial Advisory Board, SWISS , 1996-2012.
International Editorial Advisory Board, Geopolitics and International Boundaries , July
1996- July 1998.
Editorial Board, Town and Region (Ir V'Ezor), November 1991- 1994.
International Editorial Advisory Board, Progress in Human Geography , September 1990-
January 1999.
Editor, Geography Research Forum, 1989-1993. d) Conference Organization
Convenor, FP7 International Colloqium on Borders at the Interface – December 2014 –
Beer Sheva and Jerusalem.
Convenor, IGU (International Geographical Union) Commission on Political Geography
(CPG, Borders, Territory, Conflict (Tentative title), IGU Regional Conference, Israel, July
2010
Convenor (with M. Albert), The New Geopolitics and Changing Territorialities: Between
International Studies and Political Geography, Workshop 8, European Consortium on
Political Research (ECPR) , Department of Political Science, University of Rennes, France,
11-16 April, 2008.
Convenor, BRIT (Border Regions in Transition) VII Conference: Crossing Disciplines,
Crossing Scales, Crossing Regions , Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society
(CSEPS), Ben Gurion University, and he Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, January 2005.
Convenor, Research Workshop on Rethinking Borders, Van Leer Institute, 2004-2005.
Convenor (with V. Kolossov – Russian Academy of Sciences), Sessions of the
Commission on Political Geography (WPM) of the International Geographical Union
(IGU), University of Glasgow, August 2004.
March 2002 – Convenor of International Workshop, Geopolitical Images and Discourses:
Europe, The Mediterranean and the Middle East, as part of the Third Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European
University Institute.
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Convenor and organizer, International Seminar on The Changing World Political Map:
Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century , Ben Gurion University, March 2000.
Participant in Track II Negotiations, Middle East Regional Security, Burkles Center for
International Relations, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 1998 – present (2-
3 meetings per year).
Convenor and Organizer, International Seminar on Challenging the Nation State:
Perspectives on Citizenship and Identity , Ben Gurion University, January 1999. Funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Convenor and Co-Organizer, International Conference on Geopolitics and Globalization in a Postmodern World , Haifa and Ben Gurion Universities, January 1998. Commission of the World Political Map of the International Geographical Union (IGU).
5. Awards, Honors, Research Fellowships
(a) Honors and awards
Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to Geopolitics on behalf of BRIT, ABS, and
Taylor Francis – Presented at the ABS International Conference in Finland, June 2014.
OBE, British Government, 2013, for the Advancement of Scientific Cooperation between
Israel and the UK.
Visiting Fellow and Doctorate Adviser, Geopolitics programme, Kings College , University of London, 2010 – ongoing.
Professorial Fellow and Academic Consultant, Roehampton University, London, 2008-
2011.
Visiting Scholar, Research Programme in The Critical Junctures of Globalization , University of
Leipzig, Germany, December 10-20 th , 2007.
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London, 2007-2008.
Leverhulme Fellowship, Visiting Professor of Geopolitics, Department of Geography,
University of Bristol, UK – Academic Year 2006-2007.
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Queen Mary College, University of
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London, February 2004.
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Center for Posgraduate Studies, Yarnton,
University of Oxford, August-September, 2000.
Scholar in Residence, Center for the Study of Geopolitics, Punjab University, India,
February 2000.
Scholar in Residence, the European Foundation for Research, London School of
Economics, February 2000. Sponsored by the European Community.
Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Eclipse of the Nation State ?, Salzburg, Austria, 215-22 March,
1997.
Canada-Israel Academic Exchange, Visiting Scholar 1994-95, Department of Political
Science, York University.
Research Fellow, Jerusalem Center for Israel Studies, to write a book on Local Government in Rural Areas, 1994.
Canada-Israel Academic Exchange, Visiting Scholar 1993-94, Department of Geography,
University of Calgary.
Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Perspectives on Federalism , Salzburg, Austria, 22-29th May,
1993.
Research Fellowship, Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, for Participation in
Seminar on Israel - the Decade after Independence, August 1992.
Canadian Government Faculty Enrichment Award 1988, to the value of C$3,800.
(b) Research Grants:
June 2013 – June 2018 RELATE Center of Excellence, Finnish Academy of Sciences, 14
University consortium for project on: The Relational and Territorial Politics of
Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization
May 2013 – April 2020 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC ) of
Canada, University Consortium on Borders and Globalization Project – Total project value approx. $4 million (CAN) – proportional distribution between participating universities.
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June 2012 - June 2016: EU FP7 Border Consortium – EUROBORDERSCAPES project –
375,000 EURO (consortium of 19 universities – total project 8 million EURO)
September 2004 – December 2007: EU Partnership in Peace Program, 275,000 EURO for a three years applied project on Religious Narratives and the Peace Process in Israel
Palestine (Additional funding received from Abraham and Kahanov Foundations).
April 2004 – United States Institute of Peace (USIP), $45,000 for project on Transboundary
Projects Under Conditions of Peace. 2004-2006.
January 2003 - EUROBORDERS Comparative Research Project (consortium of eight
European Universities dealing with geopolitical and territorial issues). Director of the
Israeli research participation. 120,000 EURO.
January 2003 – January 2005 – Research Fellow in Globalization, Territoriality, and
Conflict Project. Organized by The Institute for International, Comparative, and Area
Studies (IICAS) at the University of California San Diego, and funded by a grant from the
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
October 2000 – November 2001. European Community, MEDA (Middle East Democracy
Program). 150,000 ECU for Workshops for Local Government Empowerment Amongst
Beduin Communities of the Negev.
January 1999. Friedrich Ebert Foundation. $18,000 for International Seminar on
Nationalism, Citizenship and Identity.
September 1998 - June 1999. Abraham Foundation. $12,00 (continuing) for Workshop for
Local Government Empowerment Amongst Beduin Communities of the Negev.
September 1997 - June 1998. Abraham Foundation. $12,000 for Workshop for Local
Government Empowerment Amongst Bedouin Communities of the Negev
October 1993 - April 1995 (with G. Falah). MacArthur Foundation, $95,000: Spatial
Alternatives for the Israel-Palestine Conflict .
June 1992 - December 1993 (with Y. Gradus and T. Godovich). Ministry of Housing,
150,000 shekel: The Impact of Mass Immigration on the Urban Settlement System of the
Northern Negev .
August 1991 - December 1991. Truman Research Institute, $2,000: Preparation of Working
Paper on the West Bank Settlement Process .
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February 1991 - July 1991. Ministry of Interior, IS3,000: The Municipal Structure of the
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council .
April 1990 - March 1991. Ministry of Interior, $50,000 (with L. Applebaum): The Private
Enterprise Settlement Sector .
May 1989 - January 1990. Organization of Regional Councils in Israel, IS60,000:
Preparation and Editing of Regional Council Atlas.
1988. Keren Sappir Research Award for Municipal Studies, IS5,000: Functional Problems of the Regional Councils .
1988/89. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben Gurion University, $1,000: The
Functioning of Regional Councils in Israel .
May 1988 - May 1989. Ministry of Interior, $35,000 (with L. Applebaum): Satellite
Settlements in Peripheral Regions .
1987-1989. Ford Foundation, $17,000 (with G. Falah): Managerialism, Gatekeeping and
Local Government in Israel's Mixed Towns .
December 1984 - December 1986. Ford Foundation, Israel Trustees, $30,000 (with J.
Portugali): Spatial Interaction between Israelis and Palestinians of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip .
September 1984 - September 1986. Rural Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Housing, $60,000 (with L. Applebaum): New Settlement Types in Israel .
6. Scientific Publications .
(a) Books.
NEWMAN, DAVID An Advanced Introduction to Geopolitics – Publication date 2015
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 Changing Patterns of Rural Settlement in Israel, 1967-1985.
Undergraduate course for the Open University. (In Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 The Regional Councils in Rural Areas: Reform and Change in
Local Government . Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies: Jerusalem. (In Hebrew). 144p.
NEWMAN, DAVID and AVIGDOR ORGAD. 1990 (with A. Orgad) The Regional
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Councils in Israel . Achdut Publishing House: Tel Aviv (English & Hebrew + 54 anotated maps). 235p.
APPLEBAUM, LEVIAH AND DAVID NEWMAN 1989 Between Village and Suburb:
New Settlement Types in Israel . Bialik Publishers: Jerusalem (In Hebrew). 137p.
(b) Monographs.
NEWMAN, DAVID AND LEVIAH APPLEBAUM. 1997. The Impact of Change on Rural
Local Government: Dilemmas and Problems.
The Floersheimer Institute for Policy
Studies: Jerusalem. (In Hebrew). 64pp.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 Efficiency, Functionality and the Social Construction of
Municipal Space: Reforming Rural Local Government in Israel . Negev Center for
Regional Development, Working Paper No. 7. Ben Gurion University of the Negev: Beer
Sheva. 31pp.
NEWMAN, DAVID, YEHUDAH GRADUS AND ESTHER LEVINSON. 1995. The
Impact of Mass Immigration on the Urban Settlements in a Frontier Region: the Case of the Negev , Negev Center for Regional Development, Working Paper No. 3. Ben Gurion
University of the Negev: Beer Sheva. 32p.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1995 Boundaries in Flux: The Green Line Boundary between Israel and the West Bank - Past, Present and Future . Monograph Series, Boundary and Territory
Briefings, No. 7, International Boundaries Research Unit: University of Durham, England.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1992 Colonia in Suburbia: Reflections on 25 Years of Israeli
Settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , Israeli-Palestinian Peace Research Project,
Working Paper Series, No. 18.
APPLEBAUM, LEVIAH AND DAVID NEWMAN. 1991. The Private Sector Settlements in Israel: Developmental Process and Local Government Status . The Center for
Development Studies, Rehovot, Israel (In Hebrew) 116p.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1991. Population, Settlement and Conflict: Israel and the West Bank .
Update Series in Contemporary Geographical Issues. Cambridge University Press. 64p.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1982 Jewish Settlement in the West Bank: The Role of Gush
Emunim . Occasional paper No 16, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
University of Durham. 91p.
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NEWMAN, DAVID, Editor, A Companion to Geopolitics.
Edgar Publishers- In
Preparation – Publication date 2015 (A Handbook of 32 original essays from leading exponents within the field of Geopolitics).
NEWMAN, DAVID, Editor (with Joel Peters), Companion to the Israel-Palestine
Conflict.
Routledge Publishers. 2012.
NEWMAN, DAVID (with Elizabeth Matthews and Mohammed Dajani) The Israel-
Palestine Conflict: Parallel Discourses . Routledge – Burkles Series on Middle East
Security.
NEWMAN, DAVID, Editor, 2008, Special Issue of Israel Studies : Geography, Planning and Territory in Israeli Society.
NEWMAN, DAVID and MOHAMMAD DAJANI (2006) (Eds) Israel-Palestine: Concepts
(Book I): Issues (Book II), Middle East Peace and Security Series.
Taylor & Francis
(Routledge Imprint).
NEWMAN, DAVID Chief Editor, Int. Jnl of GEOPOLITICS (quarterly peer reviewed journal, published by Taylor & Francis (Routledge imprint, SCI indexed) Editor since Vol
3 (1) (1998) – presently Vol 18 (2013) (Co-Editor: John Agnew, UCLA, 2000-2009;
Simon Dalby, Carleton, 2009-present)
KEMP, ADRIANA, DAVID NEWMAN, URI RAM and OREN YIFTACHEL. 2004.
Israelis in Conflict: Hegemonies, Identities, Challenges . Sussex University Press.
SCHOFIELD, CLIVE, DAVID NEWMAN and ALASDAIR DRYSDALE. 2002. The
Razors Edge: International Boundaries and Political Geograph: Festschrift in Honour of
Gerald H. Blake . Kluwer Law Academic: London.
KLIOT, NURIT and DAVID NEWMAN. 2000. Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth
Century: The Changing World Political Map. Frank Cass: London.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999 Territory, Boundaries and Postmodernity . Frank Cass: London.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 Postmodernity and the Territorial Discourse of Peace . Special issue of Geojournal , Vol 39 (4).
GROSSMAN, DAVID, AVINOAM MEIR and DAVID NEWMAN. 1993. Changing
Rural Systems - special issue of Geography Research Forum , Vol 13. Ben Gurion
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University Press.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1992 The Middle East and the Emerging New World Order . Special issue of Geojournal , Vol 28 (3).
NEWMAN, DAVID and SHLOMO HASSON. 1992. The Regional Councils in Israel .
Special issue of Ir V'Ezor (Town and Region) Vol 22 (In Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID and SHAUL KRAKOVER. 1990 – 1993. Geography Research
Forum , Volumes 10-12. Ben Gurion University Press.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1985. The Impact of Gush Emunim . Croom Helm: London.
NEWMAN, DAVID, EWAN ANDERSON and GERALD BLAKE. 1982. The Security of
Gulf Oil: An Introductory Bibliography.
Occasional Paper No 13, Centre for Middle
Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham. 55p.
(d) Chapters in Collective Volumes.
NEWMAN DAVID. 2013 `Gush Emunim and the Settler Movement’, In Joel Peters and
David Newman (Eds) A Companion to the Israel-Palestine Conflict.
Routledge. Chap 22, pp.
255-266.
NEWMAN DAVID. 2013 `Territory and Borders’ In Joel Peters and David Newman (Eds) A
Companion to the Israel-Palestine Conflict.
Routledge. Chap 11, pp.135-144.
NEWMAN DAVID. 2012 `Borders and Conflict Resolution’ In Thomas Wilson and Hastings
Donnan, Eds., A Companion to Border Studies, Blackwell. Chap 14, pp. 249-265.
NEWMAN DAVID. 2011 `Contemporary Research Agendas in Border Studies: An
Overview’, In Doris Wastl-Water, Ed.
Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies .
Ashgate Publishers. . Chap 2, pp.33-47.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2011 `From bilateralism to unilateralism: the changing territorial discourses of conflict resolution', In Elizabeth Matthews, David Newman and Mohammed
Dajani, Eds, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Parallel Discourses . Routledge – Burkles
Series on Middle East Security. Pp. 51-66..
NEWMAN DAVID. 2009. ` The Renaissance of a Border which Never Died: The Green Line between Israel and the West Bank’, , in A. Diener & J. Hagen (eds), Border Lines: History and Politics of Odd International Borders . Rowman & Littlefield.
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NEWMAN DAVID, AND PAASI ANSSI 2009 `Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography', In J. Agnew & V. Mamadouh
(eds) Politics: Critical Essays in Human Geography – Series on Contemporary
Foundations of Space and Place. Ashgate Publishing.
(REPRINTED from Progress in
Human Geography , 22 (2), 186-207, 1998).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2009 ‘New Geographies of Contemporary Borders’, In C. Flint (ed),
Geographic Contributions to International Studies , ( International Studies Compendium
Project.), Blackwell Publishing.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2009 ‘Theorizing Borders: New Directions in Border Studies, In D.
Wastl-Water (ed), Research Companion to Border Studies, Ashgate Publishing, UK.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2008 ‘The formation of national identities in Israel / Palestine: The
construction of spatial knowledge and the contested territorial narratives’, In N. Slocum (ed),
Promoting Conflict or Peace Through Identity. Ashgate Publishers, UK.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2008: `In the name of security – In the name of peace:
Environmental Schizophrenia and the security discourse in Israel / Palestine’, In H. Brauch et al (eds) Reconceptualising Security in an Era of Globalisation , Peace Research and
European Security Studies, AFES Press, Germany.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2008 `Change and Continuity in the Border Discourse In Israel-
Palestine', In J. Laughland & M. Korinman (eds) Israel on Israel.
Valentine Mitchell,
London. Pp. 164-183.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2006: `Colonization as Suburbanization: The Politics of the Land
Market at the Frontier’, In P. Misselwitz et al (eds), City of Collision
Birkhäuser Publishers, Basel, Switzerland, pp. 113-120.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2006: `The Resilience of Territorial Conflict in an Era of Globalization’,
In M. Kahler & B. Walter, (eds), Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization.
Cambridge University Press.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2004 `Conflict at the interface: The impact of boundaries and borders on contemporary ethno-national conflict', In C. Flint (ed) Geographies of War and Peace .
Oxford University Press.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2004. `From the international to the local in the study and representation of boundaries: Theoretical and methodological comments’, In H. Nicol & I. Townsend-Gault
(eds) Holding the Lines: Borders in a Global World . University of British Columbia Press:
Vancouver, BC.
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 2003. `The consequence or the cause? Impact on the Israel/Palestine peace process', In M. Buckley & R. Fawn (eds) Global Responses to Terrorism . Routledge:
UK.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002. `From “moribund backwater” to “thriving into the next century”: the changing research agenda of political geography’, In D. Newman, A.
Drysdale & C. Schofield (eds) The Razors Edge: International Boundaries and Political
Geography .
Festschrift in Honour of Gerald H. Blake . Kluwer law International: London.
Pp. 3-24.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002. `Boundaries’, In J. Agnew, K. Mitchell & G. Toal (eds)
A
Companion to Political Geography. Blackwell: Oxford, UK . pp. 123-137.
( Reprinted by invitation as: 2003, `Boundary Geopolitics: Towards the Theory of
Territorial Lines?', In E. Berg & H. Van Houtum (eds) Routing Borders between
Territories, Discourses and Practices . Ashate: UK. Pp. 277-292)
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002. `Controlling territory: Spatial dimensions of social and political change in Israel’, In L. Eisenberg, N. Caplan, N. Sokoloff & M. Abu Nimr (eds),
Books on Israel , Vol VI. Suny Press: Albany, NY. Pp.67-87.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002. `The political geography of an “eternal” city: ethno-territorial fragmentation in a “united” Jerusalem’, In R. Schneider-Sliwa (ed)
Local Impact of Global
Changes (Stadte im Umbruch) . Reimer Verlag: Berlin (In German). Pp. 47-71.
(English version published in R. Schneider-Sliwa (ed), Cities in Transition: Globalization,
Political Change and Urban Development , Springer, The Netherlands, 2006, pp. 43-66).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2001. `Boundaries, borders and barriers: a geographic perspective on territorial lines’, In M. Albert, D. Jacobson & Y. Lapid (eds)
Identities, Borders, Orders:
New Directions in International Relations Theory . University of Minnesota Press,
Minnesota, USA. Pp. 137-151.
HERMANN, TAMAR and DAVID NEWMAN. 2000. `A path strewn with thorns: along the difficult road of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking’, In J. Darby & R. MacGinty (eds)
Coming Out of Violence: The Problems of Building Peace . Macmillan Press: London. Pp.
107-153.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000. `Internal migration in Israel: From periphery to center – from rural to urban’, In D. J. Elazar & M. Weinfeld (eds)
Still Moving: Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective . Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, USA. Pp. 205-225.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000. `Boundaries, territory and postmodernity: towards shared or separate spaces?, In M. Pratt & J. Brown (eds) Borderlands Under Stress . Kluwer Law
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International, London. Pp. 17-34.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000. `Citizenship, identity and location: the changing discourse of
Israeli geopolitics', In K. Dodds & D. Atkinson (eds), Geopolitical Traditions: Critical
Histories of a Century of Geopolitical Thought . Routledge: London. Pp. 302-331.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999. `Territorial and geographical dimensions of the security discourse', In D. Bar-Tal, D. Jacobson & A. Klieman (eds) Concerned with Security:
Learning from the Experience of Israeli Society . JAI Press: CT. pp. 73-94.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999. `Real spaces - Symbolic spaces: Interrelated notions of territory in the Arab-Israel conflict', In P. Diehl (ed), A Road Map to War: Territorial
Dimensions of International Conflict . Vanderbilt University Press: Nashville, Tennessee. pp. 3-34.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1998. `Population as Security: the Arab-Israeli struggle for demographic hegemony', In N. Poku and D. Graham (eds), Redefining Security: Population
Movements and National Security . Greenwood Publishing Group: CN. pp.163-185.
NEWMAN, DAVID .
1998 `Metaphysical and concrete landscapes: the geopiety of homeland socialisation in the "Land of Israel"', In H. Brodsky (ed), Land and Community:
Geography in Jewish Studies . University Press of Maryland. pp.153-184.
NEWMAN, DAVID
1998 `Transforming ethnic frontiers of conflict into political frontiers of peace', In O. Yiftachel & A. Meir (eds.), Ethnic Ethnic Frontiers and Peripheries:
Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel . Westview Press: Boulder, Co. pp.17-
38.
NEWMAN, DAVID
1996 `From conflict to peace narratives: the changing discourse of
Israeli political geography', In Y. Gradus & G. Lipschitz (eds), The Mosaic of Israeli
Geography . Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press: Beer Sheba, pp.287-296.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1995. `Creating homogeneous space: the evolution of Israel's regional councils', In I. Troen & N. Lucas (eds.) Israel: The First Decade of Independence .
SUNY Press: Albany, N.Y. Pp.495-519.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994. `Demarcating a boundary of peace between Israel and the
West Bank', In W.A. Gallusser (ed.), Political Boundaries and Coexistence . Peter Lang:
Bern. Pp. 171-181.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994. `Social and political factors in the Golan settlement process', In
A. Degani and M. Inbar (Eds), Sefer Hagolan VeHahermon , Eretz Publications: Tel Aviv
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University and Ministry of Defence: Tel Aviv. (In Hebrew). Pp. 487-502.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1993. `The functional presence of an "erased" boundary: the re-emergence of the "green line" ', In C. H. Schofield & R. N. Schofield (eds.), World
Boundaries: The Middle East and North Africa . London: Routledge. Pp. 71-98.
NEWMAN, DAVID and LEVIA APPLEBAUM. 1992. `Recent exurbanisation in Israel',
In Y. Golani, S. Eldor & M. Garon (Eds.), Planning and Housing in Israel in the Wake of
Rapid Changes . Ministry of Interior & Ministry of Construction and Housing: Israel. Pp.
313-321.
APPLEBAUM, LEVIA and DAVID NEWMAN. 1991. `Between village and suburb: changes in the rural settlement pattern in Israel', Sefer Eretz Yisrael , Vol 22, 7-18. (In
Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1991. `Overcoming the psychological barrier: the role of images in war and peace', In N. Kliot & S. Waterman (eds.) The Political Geography of Conflict and
Peace . Bellhaven: London. Pp. 192-207.
NEWMAN, DAVID and TAMAR HERMANN. 1990. `The dove and the skullcap:
Secular and religious divergence in the Israeli peace camp', In C. Liebman (ed), Religious and Secular: Conflict and Accomodation between Jews in Israel . Keter: Jerusalem. Pp.
151-172.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1985. `Spatial structures and ideological change in the West Bank',
In D. Newman (Ed) The Impact of Gush Emunim: Politics and Settlement in the West
Bank . Croom Helm: London. Pp. 172-182.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1985. `Gush Emunim in society and space: Introduction', In D.
Newman (Ed) The Impact of Gush Emunim: Politics and Settlement in the West Bank .
Croom Helm: London. Pp. 1-9.
(e) Refereed Articles in Scientific Journals:
NEWMAN DAVID. 2015 (Forthcoming) Borders, Boundaries and Borderlands, The Wiley –
AAG Encyclopaedia of Geography
– Political Geography Subsection. John Wiley.
NEWMAN DAVID, 2015 (Forthcoming) `The renaissance and changing themes of
Geopolitics: Reflections on fifteen years editorship', Geopolitics, Vol 20.
NEWMAN, DAVID 2014 `Demarcating Borders' Fathom, (In Press).
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 2010. ` Contemporary Geopolitics of Israel–Palestine: Conflict
Resolution and the Construction of Knowledge’ Eurasian Geography and Economics , 51 (6),
687-694.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2008. `The academic boycott of Israel’, Israel Journal of Foreign
Affairs’
, 2 (2), 45-56.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2008. Geographic Discourses: The Changing Spatial and Territorial
Dimensions of Israeli Politics and Society, Israel Studies, Vol 13 (1) 1-15.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2006 `Borders and bordering: towards an interdisciplinary dialogue’,
European Journal of Social Theory , Vol 9 (2), 171-186.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2006 `The lines that continue to separate us: Borders in our borderless world’,
Progress in Human Geography , Vol 30 (2), 1-19.
OREN, AMI and DAVID NEWMAN 2006 ‘The territorial dimension of civil-military relations in Israel’,
Israel Affairs , Vol 13.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2005 `Occupation is the Only Alternative to a Two State Solution’
Arab World Geographer, Vol 8 (3), 49-51.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2005. `From “hitnachalut” to “hitnatkut”: The Impact of Gush
Emunim and the Settlement Movement on Israeli Society’,
Israel Studies, Vol 10 (3), 192-
224.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2005. `The Israel-Palestine conflict in the post-Arafat era: the perspective from Israel, Mediterranean Politics , Vol 10 (2), 210-217.
NEWMAN, DAVID 2004 ‘A live Research laboratory: The Israel – Palestine Conflict
Through the Writings of Israeli Political Geographers’,
Horizons in Geography, Vol 60-61
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2004. `An informed and proactive geopolitics', Progress in Human
Geography, Vol 28 (5), 626-630.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2003. `On borders and power: A Theoretical Framework', Journal of
Borderland Studies , Vol 18 (1), 13-25.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002. `Territorial identities in a deterritorialized world: From national to post-national territorial identities in Israel/Palestine’, Geojournal, Vol 53, 235-
246, 1-12.
(Reprinted by invitation: 2004, A. Kemp et al (eds) Israelis in Conflict: Hegemonies,
Identities and Challenges , Sussex University Press.)
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002 `The geopolitics of peacemaking in Israel-Palestine’, Political
Geography , Vol 21 (5), 629-646.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000. `The symbolism of space and place amongst Israelis and
Palest inians’,
The Arab World Geographer , Vol 3 (3).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000. `Rivers of discord, fire or Eden? The geopolitics of water in the Middle East - a review essay’, Progress in Human Geography , 24 (3)
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000. `Into the millenium: the study of international boundaries in an era of global and technological change’,
Boundary and Security Bulletin , Vol 7 (4), 63-72.
NEWMAN, DAVID and NURIT KLIOT. 1999. `Geopolitics and globalization: the changing world political map’,
Geopolitics , Vol 4 (1), 1-17.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999. `Forging a cross-boundary discourse: political geography and political science’,
Political Geography , Vol 18 (8), 873; 905-911.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999. `Compare and contrast’, Editorial Comment, Progress in
Human Geography , 23 (1), 1-5.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1998. `Geopolitics renaissant: territory, sovereignty and the world political map’,
Geopolitics , Vol 3 (1), 1-16.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1998. `Creating the fences of territorial separation: the discourse of
Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution’, Geopolitics and International Boundaries , Vol 2
(2), 1-35.
NEWMAN, DAVID and ANSSI PAASI. 1998. `Fences and neighbours in the post-modern world: boundary narratives in political geography', Progress in Human Geography , 22 (2),
186-207.
NEWMAN, DAVID and GHAZI FALAH. 1997. `Bridging the gap: Palestinian and Israeli discourse on autonomy and statehood', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers ,
22 (1), 111-129.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 `Shared spaces- separate spaces: the Israel-Palestine peace process', Geojournal , 39 (4), 363-375.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 `Postmodernity and the territorial discourse of peace',
Geojournal , 39 (4), 327-330.
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996, `The territorial politics of exurbanisation: reflections on thirty years of Jewish settlement in the West Bank', Israel Affairs , 3 (1), 61-85.
FALAH, GHAZI and DAVID NEWMAN. 1996. `State formation and the geography of
Palestinian self determination', Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG) ,
87 (1), 60-72.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 `Writing together separately: critical discourse and the problems of cross-ethnic coauthorship', Area , 28 (1), 1-12.
NEWMAN, DAVID and GHAZI FALAH. 1995. `The spatial manifestation of threat:
Israelis and Palestinians seek a "good" border', Political Geography , 14 (8), 689-706.
FALAH, GHAZI and DAVID NEWMAN. 1995. `Small state behaviour: On the formation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip', Canadian Geographer , 39 (3), 219-
234.
NEWMAN, DAVID and LEVIA APPLEBAUM. 1995. `Conflicting objectives for rural local government: service provision to exurban communities in Israel', Environment and
Planning B: Government and Policy , 13 (3), 253-271.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994 `Towards peace in the Middle East: the formation of state territories in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip', Geography , 79 (3), 263-268.
MCCOLL, ROBERT and DAVID NEWMAN. 1992. `States in formation: the ghetto state as typified in the West Bank and Gaza Strip', Geojournal , 28 (3), 333-346.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1992 `The Middle East and the emerging new world order
Introduction', Geojournal , 28 (3), 307-309.
HERMANN, TAMAR and DAVID NEWMAN. 1992. `Extra-Parliamentarism in Israel: A comparative study of Peace Now and Gush Emunim', Middle Eastern Studies , 28 (3),
509-530.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1992 `Religious political parties in Israel: A guide to the perplexed',
L'eylah , 33, 35-40.
APPLEBAUM, LEVIA and DAVID NEWMAN. 1991. `Private Sector Settlements at the
Municipal Divide: between the regional and local council', Ir V'Ezor (Town & Region) , 22,
52-71 (In Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID and LEVIA APPLEBAUM. 1991. `From monopoly to pluralism: the
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 1991 `Ideological and political attitudes of the religious peace camp in Israel', L'eylah , 31, 4-10.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1991 `On writing "involved" political geography', Political
Geography Quarterly , 10 (3), 195-199.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1989 `Voting patterns and the religious parties in Israel',
Contemporary Jewry , 10 (2), 65-80.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1989 `Current border settlement landscapes in Israel: a cross-regional comparison', Merhavim , 3, 63-80. (In Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID and LEVIA APPLEBAUM. 1989. `Defining the rurban settlement: planning models and functional realities in Israel', Urban Geography , 10 (3), 281-295.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1989 `The role of civilian and military presence as strategies of territorial control: The Arab-Israel conflict', Political Geography Quarterly , 8 (3), 215-227.
NEWMAN, DAVID, LEVIA APPLEBAUM and JULIA MARGULIES. 1989.
`Institutions and settlers as reluctant partners: changing power relations and the development of new settlement patterns in Israel' Journal of Rural Studies , 5 (1), 99-109.
NEWMAN, DAVID and PORTUGALI, JUVAL. 1987. `Israeli Palestinian relations as reflected in the scientific literature', Progress in Human Geography , 11 (5), 315-332.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1987 `Culture, conflict and cemeteries: lebensraum for the dead',
Journal of Cultural Geography , 7 (1), 99-115.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1986 `Gush Emunim between fundamentalism and pragmatism',
Jerusalem Quarterly , 39, 33-43.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1986 `Data collection problems and the identification of Jewish ethnic community patterns', Transactions, Institute of British Geographers , 12 (1),
113-115.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1986 `Functional change and the settlement structure in Israel: a study of political control, response and adaptation', Journal of Rural Studies , 2 (2),
127-137.
APPLEBAUM, LEVIA and DAVBID NEWMAN. 1985. `The role of the cooperative in
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Cooperation , 13 (1), 27-39.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1985 `Integration and ethnic spatial concentration: The changing distribution of the Anglo-Jewish community', Transactions, Institute of British
Geographers , 10 (3), 360-376.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1985 `Ideological change in the rural settlement structure in Israel',
Kivunim , 26, 113-124. (Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1985 `The evolution of a political landscape: Geographical and territorial implications of Jewish colonization in the West Bank', Middle Eastern Studies ,
21 (2), 192-205.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1984 `The political and national development of community settlements in Judea and Samaria', Horizons: Studies in Geography , 9/10, 37-44. (In
Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1984 `Ideological and political influences on Israeli rurban colonisation: The West Bank and Galilee mountains', Canadian Geographer , 28 (2),
142-155.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1984 `The development of the yishuv kehillati in Judea and Samaria: political process and settlement form', Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
(TESG) 75 (2) 140-150.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1981 `Gush Emunim and settlement type in the West Bank', Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies , 8 (1) 33-37.
(e) Unrefereed professional articles and publications .
NEWMAN DAVID. 2014 Israel: Domestic Politics and the Israel-Palestine Arena
IEMED Encyclopaedia of the Mediterranean
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2008. `Where is Israel? Identities Beyond Geography’,
Tikkun
Magazine,
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2006: Encyclopaedia entries in Encyclopedia of the Israeli-
Palestinian Conflict, (Lynne Reinner Publishers).
1) Gush Emunim
2) Borders
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 2004: Encyclopaedia entries in Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle
East and North Africa , 2nd Edition (Macmillan Reference, USA).
1) The Green Line;
2) Israeli settlement activity;
3) West Bank;
4) Gush Emunim;
5) Qiryat Arba;
6) Moshe Levinger.
NEWMAN, DAVID. (1996-2003; 2008-2014 ongoing) Weekly political commentary/op-ed column, Jerusalem Post. (As of 2014, approx. 420 columns – over
500,000 words)
NEWMAN, DAVID . Op-Ed Columns published in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian (UK), the Globe and Mail (Canada), Times Higher Education Supplement,
Bitter Lemons, Newsday, Jewish Chronicle, Canadian Jewish News.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2003 `Barriers or bridges? On Borders, Fences and Wall's, Tikkun
Magazine , Vol 18 (6), 54-58.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2003. `Change or continuity? The Israeli elections of January 2003’,
Mediterranean Studies , Vol 8 (2), 143-150.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2001 `From peace to war: relighting the flames of the Israel-Palestine conflict’,
Boundary and Security Bulletin , Vol 9 (3), 94-100.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2001 `Boundaries are not holy’, Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol 7 (3/4),
59-68.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000 `The lines that separate us: Borders in a borderless world’,
Tikkun Magazine , Vol 15 (3), 19-22.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999 `The task ahead’, Tikkun Magazine , 14 (4), 29-32.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999 `Along the difficult road of Israeli-Palestinian peace: the Wye
Agreement and early elections’,
Boundary and Security Bulletin , 6 (4), 62-72.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 `Demarcating an Israeli-Palestinian border: geographic considerations', Jerusalem Letter , No. 362. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 `Seeking Israel's soul', Tikkun Magazine , 12 (5), 17-20.
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 `Israeli security: reality and myth', Palestine-Israel Journal , 4,
17-24.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 `Conflicting peace discourses in Israeli society', Peace Review,
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 `The Netanyahu administration and the Middle East peace process', Boundary and Security Bulletin , Vol 4 (4), 58-67.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 `Assassinating the message of peace', Tikkun Magazine , 11 (6),
16-20.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 `Settlements and boundaries: a mutually enforcing relationship', Palestine-Israel Journal , 3 (2), 54-61.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 `The geography of a state in the making: the West Bank and
Gaza Strip', Geographical Magazine .
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 `Territorial discontinuity and Palestinian autonomy: implementing the Oslo II agreement', Boundary and Security Bulletin , 3 (4), 75-85.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1995 `Creating a geography of peace: Oslo II and the discontinuity of space', Tikkun Magazine , 10 (6), 41-44.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1995 `Separating Israelis and Palestinians: demarcating de facto boundaries', Boundary and Security Bulletin , 3 (2), 61-65.
NEWMAN, DAVID.1994 `Territorial implications of the Middle East peace process',
Boundary and Security Bulletin , 2 (3), 76-80.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994 `Religious peace movements', Encyclopaedia Judaica -
Decennial Yearbook , 1983-1993, p.307. Keter Publishers.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994 `Regional and Settlement Planning', Encyclopaedia Judaica -
Decennial Yearbook , 1983-1993, pp.214-215. Keter Publishers.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994 `Gush Emunim', Encyclopaedia Judaica - Decennial Yearbook ,
1983-1993, pp. 171-172. Keter Publishers.
APPLEABUM, LEVIA and DAVID NEWMAN. 1990. `Private initiative in the founding of new rural settlements', Proceedings of the Conference on Privatization in Local
Government , The Israel Center for Municipal Policy, Ministry of Interior: Jerusalem (In
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Hebrew), pp.27-31.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1990 `Settlement beyond the green line', Encyclopaedia of Zionism .
Herzl Press: U.S.A.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1990 `Gush Emunim', Encyclopaedia of Zionism . Herzl Press:
U.S.A.
NEWMAN, DAVID and LEVIA APPLEBAUM. 1990. `Changing patterns of rural development and organization in Israel and the emergence of ex-urban residential communities', Geographica Iugoslavica , 12, 157-164.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1989 `Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted: the peace agenda of Israel's new government' International Perspectives , 28 (2), 15-17.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1988. `Mind over matter: Images of the Arab Israel conflict', Survey of Arab Affairs , No. 14. Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1988 `Gush Emunim', Encyclopaedia Judaica - Yearbook 1986/87, pp. 249-251.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1987 `The Jewish settlement process in the territories', Monthly
Review , 34 (3-4), 58-65. (In Hebrew).
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1987 `Suburbanization: The hidden revolution in rural settlement',
Jerusalem Letter , No. 97. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1987 `Gush Emunim today' Jerusalem Viewpoint , No. 58. Jerusalem
Centre for Public Affairs.
(f) Book reviews.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2005. Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a
Globalizing World. (Y. H. Ferguson & R J. Barry Jones, eds, SUNY Press, 2002), and
Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings (J. Anderson, ed,
Routledge, 2002). Progress in Human Geography.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2005. New Borders for a Changing Europe (J. Anderson et al, Cass
Publishers, 2003), The European Legacy: Journal of International Society for the Study of
European Ideas (ISSEI), Vol 10 (5).
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 2004. Geopolitics of the World System (S. Cohen, Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002) Geography Research Forum ,
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2003 The Territorial Factor: Political Geography in a Globalising
World (G. Dijkink & H. Knippenberg (eds), Vossiuspers, University of Amsterdam Press,
2001). Political Geography,
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2003 The Middle East Water Question: Hydropolitics and the Global
Economy (J.A. Allan, London: Tauris Press, 2002), Progress in Human Geography , pp.
238-240.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2003 Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel
(A.S. Bornstein, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002 Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century (B.
Blouet, Reaktion Books, 2001). Progress in Human Geography.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2002 The Boundaries of Faith (R. Stump, Rowman & Littlefield,
2000). Political Geography, Vol 22 (4), 461-463.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 2000 The Politics of Water in the Middle East (M. Sherman,
Macmillan Press, 1999) . Political Geography.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999 Between City and Suburb: Urban Residential Patterns and
Processes in Israel (A. Gonen, Avebury Press: Aldershot, UK, 1995). Geography Research
Forum , Vol. 19, pp. 139-140.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999. Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers
(T. M. Wilson & H. Donnan, eds, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1998) and Curtains of
Iron and Gold: Reconstructing Borders and Scales of Interaction (H. Eskelinen, I. Liikanen
& J. Oksa, eds, Ashgate Publ, Aldershot, UK, 1999), Boundary and Security Bulletin , 7
(2), pp. 102-103.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1998 Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli
Discourse and Experience. (E. Ben-Ari & Y. Bilu, eds, SUNY Press: Albany, NY, 1997).
Ethnic Research Digest , No.1.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1998. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of
Israeli National Tradition. (Y. Zerubavel, Chicago University Press, 1995). Journal of
Historical Geography, pp.250-251.
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NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999 Political Geography: A New Introduction (R. Muir, MacMillan
Press, 1997): Developments in Political Geography (R. Dikshit, ed, Sage Press, 1997).
Political Geography, Vol 18, pp. 85-88.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1998 The Boundaries of Modern Iran. (Geopolitics Research Series,
University of London Press: London).
Political Geography, Vol 17, pp. 1044-1046.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 Jerusalem: the Political Geography of a City in Conflict, (M.
Dumper, The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967. Columbia University Press, 1996): To Rule
Jerusalem. (R. Friedland & R. Hecht, Cambridge University Press. 1996). Boundary and
Security Bulletin , Vol 5 (2), 92-95.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 Peace in the Middle East: the Challenge for Israel (E. Karsh, ed. Frank Cass: England).
Political Geography
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 Reordering the World: Geopolitical Perspectives on the 21st
Century. (G. J. Demko & B. W. Woods, eds. Westview Press, Boulder, Co). Geography
Research Forum,
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1995 Water Resources and Conflict in the Middle East (N.Kliot -
Routledge, 1994, 309p.) Political Geography 14 (8), 713-715.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994 Local Communities and the Israeli Polity: Conflicts of Values and Interests (E. Ben-Zadok - ed, SUNY Press, 1993, 276p.) Contemporary Jewry , Vol 14,
.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994 Town Planning Under Military Occupation (A. Coon,
Dartmouth Publishing Co, 1992) and Planning a Mixed Region in Israel (O. Yiftachel,
Avebury Publishers, 1992), Planning Perspectives , 9 (2), 210-214.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1994 Society and Settlement: Jewish land of Israel in the Twentieth
Century (A. Kellerman, SUNY Press: Albany, 1993). Annals of the Association of
American Geographers , 84 (1), 146-148.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1992 The Elections in Israel - 1988 (A. Arian & M. Shamir - eds),
Political Geography Quarterly , 11 (2), 225-227.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1990 Systematic Political Geography(M.I. Glassner & H.J. de Blij,
Wiley - revised fourth edition) Geography Research Forum , Vol 10, 109-111.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1988 The Spatial Theory of Voting: An Introduction (J.M. Enelow
& M. J. Hinch: Cambridge University Press: 1984) and An Electoral Atlas of Europe,
1968-1981 (J. Sallnow & A.John: Butterworth: 1982), Geography Research Forum , Vol 9,
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172-174.
NEWMAN, DAVID. 1987 Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective (R. D.
Dikshit: McGraw Hill: 1982) and An Introduction to Political Geography (J. R. Short:
Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1982), Geography Research Forum , Vol 8, 131-133.
7. Lectures and Presentations at Conferences and Invited Seminars .
(a) Keynote and Plenary Lectures
(5-7 September 2014) `Rethinking the securitization discourse in a borderless world',
RELATE Symposium, University of Oulu, Finland.
(20-23 July 2014) 'Border Studies – Global and regional Trends', Geopolitics in Changing
Southeast Asia: Boundaries and Borderlands', School of Tourism and Geography, Yunnan
Normal University, Kunming, China.
(9-13 June 2014) 'Boundaries and Fences in a Postmodern World – Revisiting Newman &
Paasi' Post-Cold War Borders: Global Trends and Regional Responses , Association of
Borderland Studies (ABS, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Finland, and University of St Petersburg, Russia.
(17-18 April 2014) 'Borders and Borderlands: Traditional and Critical Understandings ',
“Envisioning Peace beyond Borders: Dynamism of De-bordering and Re-bordering in East
Asia, Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University,
IPUS, Seoul, South Korea.
(6-8 November 2013) 'The Changing Agendas of Border Studies', Border Codes , Academy of Finland and University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
(13-16 November 2012) 'Where Are We Headed For? New Agendas for Border Studies',
Closing Plenary Session, Borderland Voices – Shaping a New World Order, Border
Regions in Transition (BRIT) XII, Fukuoka, Japan, and Bussan, Korea.
(1-3 April 2009) `Borders, Territory and Sovereignty: From Deterritorialization to
Reterritorialization in the post 9/11 World’, 20 th
Anniversary Conference of the
International Boundaries Research Unit, The State of Sovereignty , University of Durham,
UK.
(11-13 September 2008) `Border Narratives in Film and media’, International Conference
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Association of Borderland Studies University of Tromsø/Barents Institute, Kirkenes,
Norway.
(12-15 January 2008), ‘New Directions in Border Studies’, Border Regions in Transition
(BRIT) IX: North American and European Border Regions in Comparative Perspective:
Markets, States and Border Communities, University of Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada, and University of Western Washington, Bellingham, USA
(3-5 August 2007) ‘The Impact of National Borders in Local Spaces and Cities’,
International Conference on Cities and Borders: Border Cities, Divided Cities, Borders in
Cities, Macau, China.
(November – December, 2006): The Leverhulme Lectures in Geopolitics: Geopolitics in a
Globalised World . University of Bristol, UK.
1.
6 th
November, 2006: Territory in a Deterritorialised World
2.
13 th November, 2006: Borders in a Borderless World
3.
6 th
December, 2006: Territory and Borders in the Israel-Palestine Conflict .
(30 th -31 st March, 2006) Keynote Lecture – ‘Changing Geopolitics and Security in the
Middle East’, International Workshop on Geographic Information Technologies and the
New Middle East Security , Florida International University, Miami, USA.
(27 th
-30 th
March, 2006) Plenary Lecture - `Conceptualizing Borders: An Inter-
Disciplinary Approach’,
Lineae Terrarum – International Borders Conference , The
University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico, USA.
(4 th
-8 th
April, 2005) `The lines that continue to separate us: Borders in our borderless world,’ Annual Progress in Human Geography Lecture at the Association of American
Geographers Conference, Denver, USA.
(1 st -3 rd December) Keynote Opening Lecture : “Can we Construct a Theory of Borders”?
International Conference on Crossing Borders, Histories, theories and Identities, Centre for
Cross Border Studies, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK.
(28 th
June–3 rd
July, 2001) Keynote Opening Lecture : `Boundary Geopolitics: Why
Territorial Lines are still Important?” International Conference on: Border Regions in
Transition: Mapping Borders between Territories, Discourses and Practices . Tartu
Ulikool, University of Estonia, Estonia.
(21st-26 th February, 2000) Keynote Opening Lecture: `The role of boundaries in a
“borderless world” ‘, International Conference on
Rethinking Boundaries: Geopolitics,
Identity and Sustainability , Center for the Study of Geopolitics, Punjab University,
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Chandigarh, India.
(b) Presentation of papers at conferences/meetings:
(4-7 November, 2014) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, The Border – Source of Innovation ,
BRIT (Border Regions in Transition) XIV, Mons, Belgium.
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(29-30 June 2014) 'Planning, Suburbanization and the banality of Settlement', The
Settlements in the West Bank 1967-2014: New Perspectives . Minerva Humanities Center,
Tel Aviv University.
(17-19 December 2013) 'Demarcating Boundaries – Functional Boundaries: Thinking
Beyond the Territorial Box', Reconstructing and Deconstructing the Two State Solution ,
Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and the Academic Exchange Program of the Rabin Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
(26-27 November 2013) 'Geopolitics Renaissant -- Small States, Large States, Powerful
States in an Era of Globalization', The Jerusalem Workshop on Great Powers and
Geopolitics , International Political Science Association (IPSA) Commission on
Geopolitics, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
(30 Sep – 2 Oct 2013) 'Rethinking Traditional Notions of Borders', The Anti-Atlas of
Borders International Conference , L’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées
(AMU), Marseille, and Le Laboratoire PACTE (Université de Grenoble Alpes/CNRS), Aix en Provence, France.
(24-26 June 2013) 'The State and the Academy: Relationships and Tensions in Israel and in the World', Association of Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA).
(24-26 June 2013) 'Israel and its Mediterranean Identity – Geopolitical Self Positioning',
Association of Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA).
(24-26 June 2013) 'Changing Contours and Ideas of Conflict Resolution', Association of
Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
(13-16 November 2012) 'Creating New Borders in Israel / Palestine', Borderland Voices –
Shaping a New World Order, Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) XII, Fukuoka, Japan,
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(11-15 September, 2012) Between Securitization and Globalization – Contemporary
Border Dialectics ', Borders and Borderlands: Todays Challenges and Tomorrows
Prospects, Association of Borderland Studies (ABS), Lisbon, Portugal
(24-25 August, 2012) `Bringing Political Geography and Critical Geopolitics Together’,
Spatialising the Geo-Political – Political Geography and Geopolitics , Commission on the
World Political Map (CPG) of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Frankfurt,
Germany.
(10-11 January 2012) `The Construction of Borders', Borders and Human Rights, The 7 th
International Human Rights Researchers Workshop, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
(27-30 June 2012) 'Where to in Border Studies? Crossing the Disciplinary Borders in the
Search for Questions', Borderscapes III, Commission on the World Political Map (CPG) of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca and
Università degli Studi di Trieste , Trieste, Italy.
(20 March 2012) 'Making the Case for Humanities and Social Sciences', UK-Israel Policy
Dialogue , Tel Aviv University.
(21-23 September, 2011) `Territorial Identity and Geopolitics'
,
Commission on the World
Political Map (CPG) of the International Geographical Union (IGU),
),
IGU Political
Geography, Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev and Crimea, Ukraine.
(6-9 September, 2011) 'Reversing the Trend in Cross-Border Relations: Parallel Border
Narratives in an Era of Globalization and Securitization', Mobile Borders – Les Frontiers
Mobiles, Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) XI, Grenoble and Geneva.
(13-14 February 2011) Germany and Neighbours – Tel Aviv
(25-29 June 2011)
, Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH)
Conference,
(3-5 December 2010) 'Border Theories and Realities—Middle East, Europe and North
America ', 2nd International Symposium of the Global COE Program Reshaping Japan’s
Border Studies, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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(3-5 December 2010) 'World Views on Border Disputes and Management
',
2nd
International Symposium of the Global COE Program
Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies,
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
(13-16 September 2009) Comparative Border Research: Theoretical Perspectives’,
Borderscapes II; IGU Commission on Political Geography - University of Milano Bicocca,
The University of Palermo and the Province of Trapani, Trapani, Sicily, Italy.
(18-19 June 2009) ` Theorizing Space, Territory and Borders’ , Workshop on Critical
Junctures of Globalization , German Research Council (DFG), University of Leipzig,
Germany.
(25-28 May 2009) ` Borders and Geopolitics in Israel / Palestine: Demarcating the Borders of Conflict Resolution” , BRIT XI,
America’s South Cone and Borders of the World: Studies about the Global/local , Universidad Arturo Prat, del estado de Chile.
(29-30 April 2009) `Border Demarcation and Power Relations’ , IPSE (Identités. Politiques,
Sociétés, Espaces) Project BRIDGE:
Theorizing Borders through Analyses of Power
Relationships, Universite du Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
(10-11 March 2009) ` Boundaries and Bordering Processes Beyond the EU: Europe’s
Global Neighbourhood’,
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Workshop:
Renegotiating Boundaries I: Examining Boundaries and Bordering Processes in the
European Union.
University of Birmingham, UK
(5-7 March 2009) `
Comparative Border Research: Theoretical Perspectives’,
EUDIMENSIONS: Neighbourhood and Boundaries in a “Wider Europe” ‘, University
Alexandru Iona Cuza, Iasi, Romania.
(5 th February 2009) `The Significance of Borders in our “Borderless World” ‘,
Raumwissenschaftlichen Kolloquium, Raumwissenschaftliches Netzwerk der Leibniz-
Gemeinschaft, Berlin.
(September 2008) ‘Geopolitical Paradigms of the Past Decade: Reflections of an Editor’
(tentative title) International Conference on Critical Geopolitics, University of Durham,
UK.
(17-19 September, 2008) `Dividing Israel / Palestine: Ethno-National Borders in a Borderless
World’, The 11th ‘Lodz’ International Political Geography Conference,
Historical Regions
Divided by the Borders , Świnoujście on Usedom Island, Poland.
(1 st May 2008) ‘ Contemporary Borders Dynamics: The Impact of Globalization Processes on the Re-Closing of Borders’,
‘International Symposium on
Borders: When Fixity and
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Fluidity Meet , University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
(April 2008) Borders and Security in the Post 9/11 Era’, New Mexico State University at
Las Cruces, US Army War College Grant on Border Security
(5-6 December 2007) ‘Linking the Territories: The West Bank and Gaza as an Enclave State’,
International Symposium on Looking Out and Looking In: Towards aTtheoretical Framework of Studying Identity Politics in Enclaves, Centre for the Study of Cultural Forms of Modern
European Politics (Cultmep) and the Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence, University of
Manchester, UK.
(12-13 November 2007) ‘Low intensity crises and frozen conflicts’, International Workshop on From Early Warning to Early Action: Developing the EU’s Response to Crisis and longerterm Threats , Brussels, Belgium.
(26-27 October 2007) ‘Borders in a Borderless World: Reexamining the Territorial
Dimensions of Globalization’, International Conference on The Regional Dynamics of Global
Social Change , World Societies Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland.
(5 th
-7 th
April, 2006) ` Reversing the Trend: Closing Borders in an Era of Securitization’,
International Conference on Border Management in an Insecure World , International
Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU), University of Durham, UK.
(30 th
-31 st
March, 2006) `Demarcating Borders and Boundaries in Israel – Palestine’,
International Workshop on Geographic Information Technologies and the New Middle
East Security , Florida International University, Miami, USA.
(27 th
-30 th
March, 2006) `Territorial Reconfiguration and the Demarcation of an Israeli-
Palestinian Border’, Lineae Terrarum – International Borders Conference , The University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico, USA.
(22 nd
– 26 th
March, 2006) `From Bilateralism to Unilateralism: the Changing Territorial
Discourses of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resolution’, Seventh Mediterranean Social and
Political Research Meeting, Workshop No. 3 - Partition or Power Sharing? The
Management of Borders and Territories in the Globalized World.
European University
Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy.
(26 th
Sep-1 st
Oct, 2005) `Conceptualizing Borders’, `The Durrell School of Corfu, Seminar on Borders and Borderlands , Corfu, Greece.
(24 th
-26 th
August, 2005) `Alternative Perceptions of Security and Vulnerability amongst the Israeli Population’, Workshop on: From Conflict to Environmental Peacemaking in the
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Middle East, at WISC (World International Studies Committee), First Global International
Studies Conference, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
(24 th -26 th August, 2005) `Military, Political and Economic Security Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near and Middle East: the Case of Israel / Palestine`, WISC
(World International Studies Committee), First Global International Studies Conference,
Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey .
(4 th -6 th August, 2005) `Setting a Research Agenda for the Study of Borders’, EXLINEA
Conference, University of Joensuu, Finland .
(30 th
June – 2 nd
July, 2005), `Territorial Conflict in an Era of Globalization’ International
Conference on International Relations: Neighbourhood: Past, Present and Future ,
Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University (METU),
Ankara, Turkey .
(14 th -17 th April, 2005) `Demarcating Boundaries in Israel & Palestine: The Geopolitics of the
Separation Barrier’, Conference of the
Association for Borderlands Studies , Albuquerque,
USA.
(14 th -17 th April, 2005) `Can We Construct a Theory of Borders’, Conference of the
Association for Borderlands Studies , Albuquerque, USA.
(5 th
-9 th
April, 2005) `The Lines that Continue to Separate Us: Borders in our Borderless
World’, Progress in Human Geography Lecture, Annual Conference of the Association of
American Geographers, Denver, USA.
(11 th
-15 th
September, 2004) `The Resilience of Territory and Borders in a Deterritorialised and Borderless World', Conference on Constructing World Orders, ECPR, Fifth Pan-
European Conference, Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR), Geopolitics
Section, the Hague, Netherlands.
(15 th -21 st August), 2004) `Can we Construct a Theory of Borders'? International
Geographical Union (IGU) Congress, Commission on Political Geography, University of
Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
(11 th -14 th August, 2004) Discoursing Borders Along the Israel-Palestine "Security Barrier",
Conference on Ordering the World: Political Geographies of War and Peace, International
Geographical Union (IGU), Commission on Political Geography, pre-Congress Workshop,
University of Durham, International Boundaries Research Unit, UK.
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(2 nd -3 rd June, 2004) `Rethinking the Role of Borders in the Contemporary World', Conference on Après les frontières, avec la frontière : quelles territorialités transfrontalières, Institut de
Géographie Alpine, Université Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble.
(13 th -15 th February, 2004) ‘Creating the Separation Fence: the Emerging Israeli-Palestinian
Border Discourse’, Koli Border Forum Conference on Re-Bordering Europe, Koli,
Finland.
(16 th -19 th January, 2004) ` The Resilience of Territorial Conflict in an Era of
Globalization’, Second International Workshop on Globalization, Territoriality and
Conflict, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), la Jolla, USA.
(21-22 nd December, 2003) `Borders as Bridges or Barriers?', Plenary Session of the Annual
Conference of the Israel Geographical Association, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
(16th December, 2003) `Is it Possible to Redraw Municipal Boundaries? Reflections on
Local Government reform in Israel’, Seminar on The Fiscal and Planning Implications of
Local Government Reform, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
(25 th
-26 th
November, 2003) `Political Implications of the Yom Kippur War: Gush Emunim, and Political Protest’, Conference on Thirty Years since the Yom Kippur War, The Ben
Gurion Research Centre, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
(17 th
-18 th
November 2003) `Rethinking Notions of Territorial Security in an Era of
Globalization’, International Seminar on Can Israel be Secure within its `67 Borders?. The
Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
(20 th
October, 2003) `The Resilience of Boundaries in a “Borderless” World’, International
Symposium on Confini e Frontiere della Nuova Europa (The Limitations of Borders in the
New Europe), Universita degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca, Italy.
(26 th
-28 th
June, 2003) `The European Union and Border Conflicts: the Case of Israel /
Palestine’, The Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA)
Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
(1 st
-7 th
June, 2003), `Boundaries in a Borderless World: Some Lessons from Israel /
Palestine’, International Conference Political Geography and Geopolitics: Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow, Commission on the World Political Map (WPM) of the
International Geographical Union, Moscow, Russia.
(6 th April, 2003) `The Geopolitical Renaissance’, Israel Association for International
Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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(7th February, 2003) ` Do Borders Still Matter? `The Changing Security Discourse in
Israel-Palestine', York Center for International and Strategic Studies (YCISS) annual
Conference
(17-18 th January, 2003) Globalization, Territoriality and Conflict: Symbolic and Tangible
Dimensions of the Territorial Discourse in Israel/Palestine’, First International Workshop on Globalization, Territoriality and Conflict, University of California at San Diego
(UCSD), la Jolla, USA.
(17 th
December, 2002) `The European Union and Border Conflicts: the Case of Israel /
Palestine’, British Institute for International Studies, Annual Conference, London School of
Economics, London, UK.
(27-30 th
September, 2002) `Loosening or Tightening: Do Borders Still Exercise a Control
Function?’, Association of Borderland Studies Conference:
`Communicating Borders’
Institute of Borderland Research, University of Nijmegen, Holland.
(22-26 th
May, 2002) `Symbolic and tangible dimensions of resolving territorial and boundary disputes: the Middle East’, International Conference,
Meeting at the Borders:
Issues in Cross-Border Research , Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, GA.
(20 th
-24 th
March, 2002) `The multiple worlds of geopolitical analysis’, Third Mediterranean
Social and Political Research Meeting: Geopolitical Images and Discourses – Europe, the
Mediterranean and the Middle East , European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
(4 th
-7 th
February, 2002) `Prospects of political stability in the Middle East’, International
Symposium on Negotiating International Border Disputes , London.
(16 th -19 th December, 2001), `The symbolic and the concrete: translating territorial perceptions into political realities’, International Workshop on Symbolic and Practical
Dimensions of the Territorial Discourse in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis.
European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
(30 th November – 3 rd December, 2001) Regions in a Borderless World: the Political
Demarcation of Geographic Space, International Workshop on Regionalism and
Regionalisation in World Society , University of Bielefeld, Germany.
(17 th -18 th December, 2000) `Beyond territory and boundaries? Europe’s changing geopolitical realm’, International Conference on
Europe and the Levant: Historical
Legacies and Political Perspectives , Ben Gurion University, Israel.
(26 th -28th March, 2000) `Boundaries as spatial and social constructs in a reterritorialized world’, International Seminar on
The Changing World Political Map: Geopolitics at the
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End of the Twentieth Century , Ben Gurion University, Israel.
(13 th
-15 th
December, 1999) `Deterritorialization, Reterritorialization and the World
Political Map’, International Seminar on
Political Landscapes: On the Threshold of the 21 st
Century and Emerging Patterns , the I.G.U Commission on the World Political Map and
Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.
(4 th -7 th December, 1999) `From rural to rurban: the changing face of Israeli settlement landscapes’, Session devoted to the memory of Professor Raanan Weitz, Association of
Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Haifa University.
(25 th -28 th August, 1999) `Deterritorialisation or Reterritorialisation: the Changing Role of
Boundaries in a Globalized World’, International Conference on
Permeable Boundaries and Borders in a Globalised World: Opportunities or Old Problems?
International
Boundaries Research Unit and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
(21 st
-23 rd
July, 1999) `Boundaries, territory and identity’, International Workshop on
Boundaries and Belonging , the Henry Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington at Seattle, USA.
(20 th
-21 st
June, 1999) `Rethinking European boundaries: theoretical perspectives’,
International Seminar on: Germany in Europe: Europe in Germany , Center for German
Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
(8 th
-11 th
June, 1999) (with T. Hermann) `Along the difficult road of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking’
Moving Towards Pluralism , the Fourth International Conference of the
Ethnic Studies Network, Moscow, Russia.
(5 th
-6 th
May, 1999) `The social construction of territory in the security discourse’,
Multidisciplinary Conference on Military - Society Relationships , the Center for Multi-
Cultural Research, Haifa University, Israel.
(16 th
-17 th
April 1999) `Territorial and boundary issues in state demarcation’, Conference on
Scenarios for Relationships between and Israeli and Palestinian State , the Steinmetz center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University, Nveh Ilan, Israel.
(25 th
March 1999) `The imprint of geography and territory on the security discourse’,
Interdisciplinary Conference on Security Perspectives , Tel Aviv University, Israel.
(10 th -12 th January, 1999) `Territory, boundaries and the formation of national identity’,
International Seminar on Challenging the Nation State: Perspectives on Citizenship and
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Identity , Ben Gurion University, Israel.
(16th-23rd August,1998) `Citizenship as alternative national identity: Israel at fifty',
International Conference on Nationalisms and Identities in a Globalized World .
International Geographic Union (IGU), Commission on the World Political Map (WPM),
Maynooth, Ireland.
(15th-17th July, 1998) `Boundaries, territory and postmodernity: towards shared or separate spaces?’, International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) Conference on Borderlands
Under Stress , University of Durham, England.
(25th-29th March 1998) `Rethinking the territorial component of the security discourse',
Invited Discussant, Session on Military Geography, Association of American Geographers ,
Annual Conference, Boston, U.S.A.
(25th-29th March 1998) `Nationalism, territory and scale in Israel/Palestine', Association of American Geographers Boston, U.S.A.
(25th-30th January 1998) `Geography and Politics or Political Geography? IGU
Commision on the World Political Map: Geopolitics and Globalization in the Postmodern
World . Haifa & Beer Sheva, Israel.
(28th - 29th December 1997) `Municipal changes at the urban-rural interface', Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva.
(28th - 29th December 1997) `The political dimension of the settlement landscape',
Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Ben Gurion University, Beer
Sheva.
(10th - 13th December 1997) `Fences and neighbors in the post modern world: rethinking boundaries in political geography', International Conference on: Geopolitical Change: One
Hundred Years Since Ratzel's Political Geography , Trieste, Italy.
(5th June 1997) `Settlement or Squatting? Changes in Government Policy towards West
Bank Settlement', Conference on: From Small to Big Israel: Thirty Years Since the Six Day
War . Haifa University, Israel.
(4th June 1997) `Thirty years of West Bank settlement', Conference on: Thirty Years Since the Six Day War , Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
(16th - 18th February 1997) `On the formation of a Palestinian state', International
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Conference on Political Control of Bureaucracy in Democratic Systems , Beer Sheva,
Israel. Research Committee on Structure and Organization of Government (SOG) of the
International Political Science Association (IPSA).
(30th July - 2nd August, 1996) `Efficiency, functionality and the social construction of municipal space: Reforming local government in Israel', International Conference on
Politics and Geography of Territorial Power Sharing , Wroclaw, Poland. Commission on
Public Administration of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and the Research
Committee on Local Government of the International Political Science Association (IPSA).
(July, 1996) `Boundaries, Territory and Postmodernity: Towards Shared or Separate
Spaces?', International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU), University of Durham, England.
(24th-25th December, 1995) `Maps, maps and maps: considerations for the final territorial arrangements between Israel and the alestinians', Association of Israeli Geographers ,
Annual Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(19th-20th March, 1995) `From metaphysical to concrete landscapes: Geopiety and homeland socialisation', International Conference on Geography in Jewish Studies ,
University of Maryland, U.S.A.
(14th-18th March, 1995) (with G. Falah) `The spatial manifestation of threat', Annual
Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) , Chicago, USA.
(14th-15th October, 1994) (with G. Falah) `The dynamics of state evolution: A Palestine case study', Ontario Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers , Nipissing,
Ontario.
(24th-27th May, 1994) `Demarcating a boundary of peace between Israel and the West
Bank', International Geographical Union (IGU), Conference on Political Boundaries and
Coexistence , Basel, Switzerland.
(18th-21st, May, 1994) `Small state behaviour: on the formation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip' Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of
Geographers (CAG) , Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
(27th-31st March 1994) `Political geography and the Israel-Palestine peace process',
Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers , San Francisco, U.S.A.
(27th-30th December, 1993) `Transforming frontiers of conflict into frontiers of peace',
International Conference on Regional Development: The Challenge of the Frontier , Negev
Center for Regional Development, Beer Sheba, Israel.
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(14th-16th April, 1993) (with L. Applebaum) `Organisational and municipal functioning of rurban communities: the private sector', Joint International Workshop - The Israeli and
German Speaking Branches of the Regional Science Association , Shefayim, Israel.
(21st-22nd December, 1992) `Caricatures and the political mapping of the Arab-Israel conflict' Poster Session - Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Ben
Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.
(13th-18th September, 1992) (with L. Applebaum) `Organisational and municipal functioning of rurban communities: the private sector', International Federation for
Housing and Planning (IFHP) , 41st World Congress, Jerusalem, Israel.
(4th-18th August, 1992) `Creating Homogeneous Space: The Evolution of Israel's Regional
Councils', Second Rich Research Seminar - Israel: The Decade after Independence . Oxford
Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Yarnton, Oxford.
(6th-11th February, 1992) `Colonia in Suburbia: reflections on 25 years of the Jewish settlement process in the West Bank and implications for the peace process', Dimensions of Israeli- Palestinian Peace , Institute of International Affairs, Rome, Italy.
(15th-20th December 1991) (with L. Applebaum) `Organisational and municipal functioning of rurban communities: the private sector', International Geographical Union,
Commission on Changing Rural Systems, Harmony and Conflict in Rural and Ex-Urban
Space , held at the Ramat Rahel Conference Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
(4th-5th December, 1991) `Boundary changes as a solution to functional problems in regional councils: the case of Mate Yehuda', Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual
Conference, Tel Aviv University.
(26th-30th August 1991) `Eastern Europe and the Middle East: Regional implications of reforged alliances', International Geographical Union, Commission on the World Political
Map , held at the Institute of Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague,
Czechoslovakia.
(23rd-25th May 1991) `Small states and even smaller states: Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza', International Conference on Islands and Small States , Foundation for International
Studies and the Meditterranean Institute, University of Malta.
(14th-16th April 1991) `Political Geography and Palestine', Association of American
Geographers , Annual Conference, Miami. U.S.A.
(12th-13th December 1990) (with L. Applebaum) `The role of privatization in the development of peripheral regions', Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual
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Conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
(19th-21st November, 1990) (with L. Applebaum) `The municipal status of community and private settlements', Ninth National Conference for Local Government and Administration ,
Jerusalem, Israel.
(24th-28th September, 1990) (with L. Applebaum & Y. Golani) `Rurban communities in rural space: The changing nature of settlement planning in Israel', International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) , 40th World Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
(25th-26th June, 1990 (with L. Applebaum) `Private initiative in the founding of new rural settlements', Conference on Privatization in Local Government , The Israel Center for
Municipal Policy, Jerusalem (In Hebrew).
(7th-8th February, 1990) (with L. Applebaum) `Between village and suburb: New settlement forms in Israel', Roundtable discussion at the Israel Sociological Association ,
Annual Conference, Bar Ilan University.
(2nd-7th April, 1989) (with L. Applebaum) `Exurbanization and the development of new communities in Israel', Third World Congress of the Regional Science Association (RSA) ,
Jerusalem, Israel.
(8th-13th January, 1989) `Overcoming the psychological barrier: The role of images in war and peace' International Geographical Union, Commission on the World Political Map:
Haifa Conference on War, Peace and Geography , Haifa University, Israel.
(21st-23rd December, 1987) (with L. Applebaum) `Rural settlement of the 1980's', Poster
Session, Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Ben Gurion University.
(21st-23rd December, 1987) `The administration of rural space' Association of Israeli
Geographers , Annual Conference, Ben Gurion University.
(23rd-24th November, 1987) `Military and civilian presence as alternative means of territorial control in a conflict situation', International Geographical Union, Political
Geography Working Group , Sorbonne, Paris, France.
(1st June, 1987) (with L. Applebaum) `Between village and town: New settlement types in
Israel', Israeli Regional Science Association, Annual Conference , Settlement Study Centre,
Rehovot.
(28th-30th December, 1986) `New settlement types in Western Samaria', Field trip for participants, Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Tel Aviv University.
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(26th-30th August, 1986) (with J. Portugali) `Geography and Nationalism: Israel and the
West Bank', International Geographical Union, Political Geography Working Group , San
Sebastian, Spain.
(9th-10th December, 1985) `The location of cemeteries in Israel: an urban political problem', Association of Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Hebrew University.
(May, 1985) `Gush Emunim: Between fundamentalism and pragmatism', International
Colloquium on Radicalism and Fundamentalism in the Middle East , Truman Research
Institute, Hebrew University.
(25th-26th February, 1985) `Problems of centralisation in planning the rural landscape of the modern era', Conference on Centralisation and Dispersion in Israel , Ben Gurion
University.
(7th-10th January, 1985) `Political ideology and landscape: the West Bank colonisation process', Institute of British Geographers , Annual Conference, University of Leeds,
England.
(19th-20th December 1984) `Segregation amongst dispersion: Changes in the spatial dispersion of the Anglo-Jewish community during the twentieth century', Association of
Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, University of Haifa.
(December, 1983) `The development of the Yishuv Kehillati in Israel', Association of
Israeli Geographers , Annual Conference, Bar Ilan University.
(6th-9th July, 1980) `Gush Emunim and settlement type in the West Bank', British Society for Middle Eastern Studies , Annual Conference, Royal Holloway College, Surrey, England.
(c) Seminars at Universities and Institutions.
(28-29 February 2012) CEU Budapest
(4 th
March 2009) `
Territorial Policies and Human Rights in Israel / Palestine’
, Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
(2 nd
March 2009) ` Changing Concepts of Border and Territory in Israel / Palestine’,
Department of Geography, University College (UCL), London.
(18 th February 2009) ` The Significance of the Israeli Elections for the Arab-Israel Peace
Process’
, Jewish Policy Research Institute (JPRI), London.
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(8 th
July, 2008) ` Territorial Dimensions of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Redefining
Security Considerations’
, Royal College of Defence Studies, UK Defence Academy,
London.
(13 th
April, 2008)
`Borders and Territory in a two State Solution for Israel Palestine’,
Joint Seminar, Departments of Geography and Political Science, University of Exeter, UK.
(7 th April, 2008) ‘ Crossing Borders, Crossing Disciplines: the Renaissance of Geopolitics’,
Joint Seminar, Departments of Geography and Political Science, University of Newcastle,
UK.
(6 th April, 2008) ` Demarcating Boundaries: Geopolitical, Legal and Ethical
Considerations in the Construction of an Israeli-Palestinian Border’ , Department of
Geography and the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU), University of Durham,
UK.
(18 th
March 2008) ‘ Contemporary Geopolitical and Border Paradigms in the Social
Sciences’
, Department of Geography Seminar Series, Queen Mary College, University of
London.
(16 th
January 2008) ‘ Academic Freedoms – Academic Responsibitities: Perspectives on an
Academic Boycott’
, Library of Congress, Washington DC.
(11 th January 2008) ‘ Border Dynamics in Israel / Palestine’ , Jean Monnet Centre for
Excellence, University of Victoria, Canada.
(23-26 December 2007) Series of Four Lectures on
‘Israel at Sixty: A Critical Perspective’
,
Limmud, Conference, University of Warwick
(19 th
December 2007) ` After Annapolis: Demarcating the Borders of a Two State Solution to Israel / Palestine’
, Oriental Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany.
(18 th December 2007) ` The Agenda of Border Studies in an Era of Globalization’ ,
Globalization Research Group Seminar, University of Leipzig, Germany.
(5 th December 2007) D emarcating the Borders: the Changing Geopolitics of
Israel/Palestine, Institute for Transnational Studies, University of Manchester, UK.
(24 th
November 2007) ‘Comp arative Perspectives’
, Symposium on State Weakness in the
Balkans: Context, Comparison and Implications , The Centre for the Study of Global
Governance, London School of Economics (LSE), UK.
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(March 2007) ‘ Geopolitical and Border Changes in the Middle East’ , Mansfield College,
Oxford University
(24 th -28 th December, 2006) Lecture series on Contemporary Problems facing Israeli
Society , Limmud Conference, University of Nottingham, UK. (Topics include:
Sovereignty, Electoral Process, Planning, Minority Populations, Peace Process).
(30 th
November, 2006) ` Demarcating Boundaries: Geopolitical, Legal and Ethical
Considerations in the Construction of an Israeli-Palestinian Border’ , Department of
Geography, Cambridge University, UK.
(21 st
November, 2006) `
Boundaries, Geography and International Relations’
, WUN
Seminar, University of Bristol, UK.
(7 th
April, 2006) `
Israeli Pluralism and the Political System’
, Faculty Colloqium, Georgia
State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
(6 th
April, 2006) `The I sraeli Elections and the Future of the Israel-Palestine Peace
Process’,
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
(5 th April, 2006) `The I sraeli Elections and the Future of the Israel-Palestine Peace
Process’,
Faculty Colloqiuim, University of West Georgia, Atlanta.
(4 th
April, 2006) `The I sraeli Elections and the Future of the Israel-Palestine Peace
Process’, Broad Lecture Series, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
(3 rd
April 2006) ‘Boundaries, Territory and Geopolitics in the Israel / Palestine Conflict’
Faculty Colloqiuim, Department of Geography, Florida State University at Tallahassee.
(23 rd November, 2005) `The Israel-Palestine Conflict after the Gaza Disengagement’,
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(19 th April, 2005), `The State of the Peace Process in the post-Arafat Era’, The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salva Regina University, Newport, Rhode
Island, USA.
(18 th April, 2005), `The Role of Borders in our “Borderless World”: A Geopolitical
Approach’, The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salva Regina
University, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
(11 th April, 2005), `The Israel-Palestine Peace: Process in the Post-Arafat Era’, Seminar
Series on the Changing Geopolitical Order’, Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
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(18 th
February, 2004) ‘The Separation Fence: Security Barrier or Political Border?’, Royal
Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), London, UK.
(17 th February, 2004) ‘Geneva, the Separation fence and the Israel-Palestine Peace process’, Faculty Seminar, Kings College, University of London, UK.
(11 th
February, 2004) ‘The Separation Fence and the Border Discourse in Israel / Palestine’,
Department of Geography Faculty Seminar, University of Durham, UK.
(10 th
February, 2004) ‘The Separation Fence and the Border Discourse in Israel / Palestine’,
Department of Geography Faculty Seminar, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK.
(5 th
February, 2004) ‘Geneva, the Separation fence and the Peace Process: Does Europe have a Role to Play?’, Seminar Series on the European Union and Border Conflicts,
Department of Political Science, University of Birmingham, UK.
(3 rd
February, 2004) ‘The Impact of the Separation fence on the Israel-Palestine Peace process’, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.
(29 th
January, 2004) ‘Geneva, the Road Map and all the rest: Peace Plans ad infinitum’,
Center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington DC, USA.
(27 th
January, 2004) ‘The Separation Fence and Israeli-Palestinian Border Discourses’,
School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Washington DC, USA.
(21 st January, 2004) ‘The Israel-Palestine Peace process: Geneva, the Road Map and more’,
Von Grunebaum Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
(30 th December, 2003) `Borders in a borderless world and territory in a deterritorialized world', Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University.
(10 th
December, 2003) `The renaissance of Political geography and Geopolitics',
Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(3rd February, 2003) `Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Necessary Components in the Israel /
Palestine Conflict’, Norman Paterson School of International Relations, Carleton
University, Ottawa Canada.
(31 st
January, 2003) `The Israeli elections and the Peace process: Did they Make any
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Difference?’, Inter-University Consortium on Middle Eastern Affairs and Department of
Political Science, McGill University, Canada.
(28 th January, 2003) `The Role of a Social Scientist in Policy Making and the Public
Discourse’, Department of Geography, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
(24th January, 2003) ` The Israeli Elections and the Peace Process: Will it Make Any
Difference?’, Center for Near Eastern Studies and Department of Political Science,
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
(23rd January, 2003) `The Importance of Boundaries in a Deterritorialized World: Some
Lessons from Israel-Palestine’ , Department of Geography, University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA), USA.
(22nd January 2003) `The Israeli elections and the Democraticization Process’, Department of Sociology, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), USA.
(21st January 2003) `Geopolitics and Boundaries in the Israel / Palestine conflict’,
Department of Political Science, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), USA
(21st January 2003) `Geopolitics and Boundaries in the Israel / Palestine conflict’, San
Diego State University (SDSU), USA.
(20th January, 2003) `The Relationship between National and Administrative Boundaries in Israel / Palestine’, The Department for Urban and Media Studies, El Colegio del la
Frontera Norte (El Colef), Tijuana, Mexico
(2 nd
October, 2002) `Territorial and border issues in the Middle East’, Department of
Geography, University of Amsterdam, Holland.
(1 st
October, 2002) `Territoriality and the Claiming of Space’, Research Seminar, Institute of Borderland Studies, University of Nijmegen, Holland.
(30 th September, 2002) `Israel-Palestina geo-strategic bordering processes’, Faculty
Sympsoium, Institute of Borderland Studies, University of Nijmegen, Holland.
(6 th June, 2003) `Resolving territorial and boundary issues; the symbolic and tangible dimensions’, Leonard Davis institute of International Relations, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel. (Series of seminars on conflict resolution).
(14 th February, 2002) `Resolving territorial and boundary issues in Israel/Palestine’, Joint seminar of the Department of Law and the International Boundaries research Unit,
University of Durham, UK.
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(12 th
February, 2002) `The debate over partition: an ongoing territorial theme’, Joint seminar of the Departments of History and geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland,
UK.
(11 th
February, 2002) `Geopolitical dimensions of the Israel / Palestine conflict after
September 11 th ’, Department of International Relations, University of St. Andrews,
Scotland, UK.
(14 th
December, 2001) `Territorial Dimensions of Conflict in the Middle East’, Robert
Schuman center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
(29 th November, 2001) `A Geopolitical Analysis of the Israel/Palestine peace process’,
Institute for Global Studies, faculty of Sociology, University of Bilefeld, Germany.
(27 th
November, 2001) `Peace, Security and Terror in the Middle east’, center for Peace
Studies, Frankfurt, Germany.
(8 th
. February, 2000) `The Israel-Palestine Peace Process: A Geopolitical Analysis’, centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London, UK.
(7th . February, 2000) ` Peace and Territory: The Political Geography of the Israel-Palestine
Peace Process’, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK.
(4 th
. February, 2000) `The Israel-Palestine Peace Process: A Geopolitical Analysis’,
University College, University of London, UK.
(1 st . February, 2000) ` The Geopolitical Impact of West Bank Settlements on the Israeli
Palestinian Peace Process’, St. Anthony’s College, and the Oxford Center for Postgraduate
Hebrew Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
(31 st
January, 2000) ` The Political Geography of the Israel-Palestinian-Syria Peace Processes’,
Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK.
(31 st January, 2000) `Boundary Studies in Contemporary Geopolitics’, School of
Geography, University of Oxford, UK.
(27 th
January, 2000) `Israel at fifty: From Zionism to Post-Zionism’, Department of
International Studies, University of Milan, Italy.
(24 th
January, 2000) `Israel at fifty: From Zionism to Post-Zionism’, Department of
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Political Science, University of Trieste, Italy.
(26 th
February, 1999) `Boundaries and territory in the Israel-Palestine peace process’,
Institute of Behavioural Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
(26th April, 1998) `What is a boundary? The territorial discourse in political geography',
Faculty Seminar, Department of Geography, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
(7th April, 1998) `Shared spaces and separate spaces: A political geography of the Israel-
Palestinian peace process', Department of Geography & Center for Near Eastern Studies,
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA.
(2nd April 1998) `Rethinking geographic concepts of boundaries', Geography Department
Faculty Seminar, University of Oregon at Eugene, Oregon, USA.
(1st April 1998) `Shared Spaces or separate places: The map of Israeli-Palestinian peace',
The Savage Endowment Lecture in International Relations and Peace, University of
Oregon at Eugene, Oregon, USA.
(30th March 1998) `The political geography of the Middle East peace process', Academica
Judaica, San Francisco State University, California, USA.
(9th December 1997) `The Political Geography of the Israel-Palestine peace process',
Department of Geography, Institute of Human Geography, University of Milan, Italy.
(10th February, 1997) `Shared spaces - separate spaces: The Israel-Palestine peace process as a territorial discourse', Inter university Consortium for Arab Studies, Department of
Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
(7th February, 1997) `Fences and neighbours in a postmodern world: rethinking boundaries in political geography', Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada.
(30th January, 1997) `Geographical factors in the Israel-Palestine peace process',
Department of Geography and The Walker Institute for International Studies, University of
South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
(28th January, 1997) `Creating the map of peace: territorial considerations in the Israel-
Palestine peace process', Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University,
NY, USA.
(23rd January, 1997) `Shared spaces - separate spaces: The Israel-Palestine peace process
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Affairs, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
(15th February, 1996) `Politics and boundaries in the Israel-Palestinian relationship', The
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
(13th February 1996) `The changing meaning of borders and boundaries within the Middle
East: physical, political and conceptual demains', Centre for International and Strategic
Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.
(29th November, 1995) `Changes in the municipal map of Israel's rural sector: the regional councils', Department of Geography Faculty Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(21st November, 1995) `Creating the municipal map during the first decade of statehood: the regional councils', Faculty Seminar, The Ben Gurion Institute, Sdeh Boker.
(3rd November, 1995) `The "green line" as a default boundary for the demarcation of a
Palestinian state', Political Science Forum, Open University.
(6th March, 1995) `Whose autonomy is it anyway? Reflections on the Israel/Palestine peace process', Department of Political Science, York University, Ontario, Canada.
(2nd November, 1994) `Spatial aspects of security and threat: a geographical perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict', Center for International and Strategic Studies, York
University, Ontario, Canada.
(6th May 1994) `Boundary demarcation in the Israel-Palestine peace process', Joint
Departmental Colloquium, Department of Geography and Center for Near Eastern Studies,
UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
(7th March 1994) `Boundary demarcation between Israel and the West Bank', Faculty
Seminar, Department of Geography, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
(4th March 1994) `The political geography of the Israel-Palestine peace process', Faculty
Colloquia, Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
(4th March 1994) `The political geography of territorial demarcation in a
Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement', Inter-University Consortium for Arab Studies, McGill
University Middle East Studies Program, Montreal, Canada.
(3rd March 1994) `Demarcating Israel's boundaries: Creating the Map of Peace', The
Phillip E. Uren Memorial Lecture, Faculty of Social Sciences, Carleton University,
Ottawa, Canada.
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(2nd March 1994) `Mapping and charting an independent and viable Palestinian state'
Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, Ottawa, Canada.
(1st March 1994) `The political geography of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process' Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queens University, Kingston, Canada.
(28th February 1994) `Boundary demarcation between Israel and the West Bank', Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada.
(4th February, 1994) `Regional planning and the politics of reform in Israel', Faculty
Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
(28th January, 1994) `The geography of peace: Drawing a new map of Israel, the West
Bank and Gaza', Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
(2nd December 1993) `The political geography of peace: Israel and the West Bank' Joint
Faculty Seminar, Departments of Political Studies and Geography, Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver, Canada.
(22nd November 1993) `The geography of peace: Israel and the West Bank', Faculty
Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
(12th November 1993) `Demarcating future political boundaries: the case of the green line',
Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
(9th June 1993) `The Green Line: A real or imagined boundary?', Forum for Cultural
Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University.
(23rd February 1993) `Battle for spatial awareness: Mapping the Arab-Israeli conflict',
Geoseminar Series, Department of Geology and Geography, Hunter College of the City
University of New York, U.S.A.
(23rd February 1993) `The Political Geography of autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza',
Department of Geography and Planning, State University of New York at Albany, SUNY,
U.S.A.
(19th February 1993) `The politics of rural and municipal planning in Israel', Graduate
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA), U.S.A.
(18th February 1993) `Political Geography and the Arab-Israel conflict', Center for Near
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Eastern Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), U.S.A.
(15th February 1993) `The demaraction of Regional Councils in Israel', Public Policy
Program, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, U.S.A.
(12th February 1993) `The Political Geography of autonomy in the West Bank', Global
Studies Program, Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, U.S.A.
(11th February 1993) `The "Green Line" as a re-emerging boundary between Israel and the
West Bank', University of Northern Iowa (Department of Geography Faculty Seminar),
Cedar Falls, U.S.A.
(4th February 1992) `New settlements, social and municipal conflict in Israel: examining alternative scenarios', Department of Geography, Queen Mary College, University of
London, England.
(3rd February 1992) `Post-Madrid geopolitical realities and the Arab-Israel conflict',
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England.
(17th April 1991) `The political geography of the West Bank: Issues and problems', The
Center of Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), U.S.A.
(10th April 1991) `Assessing the effectiveness of settlement colonization in the modern era', Center for International Studies, Princeton University, U.S.A.
(6th December 1990) `Determining the municipal status of rurban communities',
Department of Geography, Haifa University.
(7th October 1988) `Israel and the West Bank: Territorial options and the 1988 elections',
Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada.
(11th October 1988) `From rural village to rurban community: Changing settlement landscapes in Israel', Department of Geography, York University, Toronto, Canada.
(12th October 1988) `Changing patterns of urban and rural evelopment in Israel',
Department of Geography, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
(19th October 1988) `The West Bank and Gaza Strip: Spatial interaction between Israelis and Palestinians', Department of Political Science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal,
Canada.
(20th October 1988) `Geography of the Arab-Israel conflict', Department of Geography,
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Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
(February 1988) `Israel and the West Bank - a Political Geographical Perspective', Series of lectures on War and Peace in Contemporary Society, Acadia University, Nova Scotia,
Canada.
(February 1988) `Politics and Geography in Israeli settlement patterns', Department of
Geography, Clark University, Worcester, U.S.A.
(February 1988) `Israel and the West Bank - a Political Geographical Perspective',
Department of Geography Colloquium Series and Department of Government and
International Studies, University of South Carolina at Columbia, U.S.A.
(February 1988) `Israel and the West Bank - a Political Geographical Perspective',
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin at Maddison, U.S.A.
(February 1988) `Electoral patterns and electoral geography in Israel', Faculty of Arts,
Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
(13th December, 1987) `Administration and rural space', Department of Geography, Ben
Gurion University.
(November 1987) `Politics and Geography in Israeli settlement patterns', Department of
Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London.
(May 1987) `Between village and suburb: New settlement forms in Israel', Department of
Geography, Hebrew University.
(18th. November, 1985) `New settlements and the problematic of the rural-urban continuum', Department of Geography, Bar Ilan University.
(Autumn, 1985) (with L. Applebaum) `Demographic and socio-economic characteristics of new communities', Settlement Study Center, Rehovot.
(January 1985) `Changing settlement patterns in Israel', Israel Society Forum, Trent Park
College, Middlesex Polytechnic, London.
(31st May 1982) `The development of the yishuv kehillati - political pawn or settlement form?', Department of Geography, Ben Gurion University.
(20th May 1982) `On Welfare Geography', Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University.

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(d) Participation in Informal international seminars and workshops .
(25 th
November, 2005) `
The Case of Israel / Palestine’
, The European Union and Border
Conflicts: The Impact of Integration and Association, Final Conference, Brussels.
(16 th -19 th June, 2005) Mideast Regional Security Dilemmas: Searching for Solutions ,
(organized by the: Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at
Los Angeles), Athens, Greece.
(29 th
-30 th
May, 2005) `The Role of the EU in the Israel / Palestine Conflict’, Workshop of the The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Impact of Integration and Association,
University of Birmingham, UK.
(17 th -20 th March, 2005) Mideast Regional Security Dilemmas: Searching for Solutions ,
(organized by the: Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at
Los Angeles), Athens, Greece.
(17 th -20 th May, 2004) Mideast Regional Security Dilemmas: Searching for Solutions ,
(organized by the: Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at
Los Angeles), Amman, Jordan.
(10 th -13 th July, 2003) `The European Union and Border Conflicts: the Case of Israel /
Palestine’, International Workshop as part of the EUROBORDERS Research Project,
University of Birmingham, UK.
(10 th -13 th May, 2003) Mideast Regional Security Dilemmas: Searching for Solutions ,
(organized by the: Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at
Los Angeles), Athens, Greece.
(4 th -7 th January, 2003) Mideast Regional Security Dilemmas: Searching for Solutions ,
(organized by the: Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at
Los Angeles), Athens, Greece.
(22 nd -26 th December, 2002) Series of four lectures on `Alternative Understandings of
Israeli Society and Politics’, Limmud Conference, University of Nottingham, UK.
(11-14 th
July, 2002) Mideast Regional Security Dilemmas: Searching for Solutions ,
(organized by the: Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at Los
Angeles), the United Nations University’s Center for Comparative Regional Integration
Studies (CRIS), Brugges, Belgium.
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(5 th -7 th May, 2002) Mideast Regional Security Dilemmas: Searching for Solutions ,
(organized by the: Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at
Los Angeles), the Royal United Services for Defence Studies (RUSI), London, UK.
(6 th -9 th January, 2002) Mideast Regional Security in a Transitional Era, (organized by the:
Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at Los Angeles),
Istanbul, Turkey.
(23 rd -26 th October, 2001) Security Dimensions of a Regional System , (organized by the:
Burkle Center for International Relations - University of California at Los Angeles),
Geneva, Switzerland.
(27 th -29 th March, 2001) Promoting Regional Security in the Middle East , Burkle Center for
International Relations - University of California at Los Angeles, Cairo, Egypt.
(28 th
-30 th
January, 2001) `The impact of the political conflict on planning and development in Jerusalem’, International Symposium on: Gerusalemme: Porta della Pace per lo
Sviluppo , Cooperazione Internazionale Sud-Sud (CISS), Palermo, Sicilia, Italy.
(1 st
-3 rd
December, 2000) International Symposium on: When Radical becomes Practical:
New Strategies for Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence.
Robert Schuman Institute for
Advanced Studies, the European University Florence, Italy.
(22 nd
-24 th
February, 1999) `The contribution of political geography to IBO’, International
Workshop on Identity, Borders, Orders , New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New
Mexico, USA.
(10th-11th May, 1998) Media and Diplomacy in the Middle East . The Herzog Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
(26th April, 1998) Society and Economy in an Era of Peace . Ben Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel.
(21st-23rd March 1998) `Geographic perspectives on boundaries and borders', Invited
Participant, International Seminar on Identities, Borders, Orders , New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A.
12th-15th March, 1998) `The Israel-Palestine Process of Conflict Resolution', INCORE
(Coming out of Violence) International Seminar , San Sebastian, Spain.
(20th October 1997) `Shared spaces or separate spaces: Israel and Palestine process of
Territorial Conflict Resolution', MURCIR (Marmara University Research Center for
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International Relations) International Workshop on Conflict Resolution in the Middle East .
Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
(March 1997) Salzburg Seminar, The Eclipse of the Nation State?
(February, 1997) `Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: changing notions of socio-spatial identities', Fifth Annual YCISS (York University Centre for International and
Security Studies) Conference on Culture, Identity and Global Security , York University,
Toronto, Canada.
(July 1996) - `Internal migration in Israel: From periphery to center - from city to suburb',
International Workshop on: The Jewish Migration Experience . The Jerusalem Center for
Public Affairs.
(June 1996) - `Demarcating an Israeli-Palestinian Boundary: A Geographic Perspective',
Workshop on: Economic and Strategic Aspects of the Peace Process in the Middle East .
Monaster Center for Economic Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and the
Center for Defense and Peace Economics, Bar Ilan University.
(February 1995) - Changing Perspectives on Security , Center for International and Security
Studies, York University, Ontario, Canada.
(May 1993) Salzburg Seminar, Perspectives on Federalism.
(December 1989) - Second International Symposium on the Role of Universities in
Developing Areas. Beer Sheva, Israel.
(May 1989) - Co-Organizer and convenor of Seminar on Developmental and Municipal
Problems in the Private Settlement Sector . Sponsored by Settlement Study Center,
Rehovot; together with Ministry of Interior - Planning and Local Government Sections.
(August/September, 1986) - International Geographical Union - Regional Conference of
Meditterranean Countries, Barcelona, Spain.
(December 1982) - Association of Israeli Geographers, Annual Conference, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev.
(July 1981) - British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, Annual Conference, University of
Durham, England.
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