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Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020 (2024)
Journal Article
Geist Pinfold, R., & Eiran, E. (2024). Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020. Journal of Global Security Studies, 9(2), Article ogae013. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogae013

Annexation attempts threaten international security and the rules-based world order. Yet, studies of annexation are rare, whilst the scant relevant literature is great-power centric. This article therefore asks why some non-great power annexations su... Read More about Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020.

The limits of Israel’s periphery doctrine: Lessons from the Caucasus and Central Asia (2019)
Journal Article
Geist Pinfold, R., & Peters, J. (2021). The limits of Israel’s periphery doctrine: Lessons from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Mediterranean Politics, 26(1), 25-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2019.1693125

Recently, Israel has resuscitated its ‘periphery doctrine’: the attempted circumvention of Arab hostility, by cultivating relations with other nearby actors. Despite the expanding literature on the periphery doctrine, no study has delineated Israel’s... Read More about The limits of Israel’s periphery doctrine: Lessons from the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically (2019)
Journal Article
Pinfold, R. G., & Smith, M. (2019). Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 45(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2019.1661083

This article examines what factors cause states to withdraw from foreign territorial interventions. Scholarly analyses of withdrawal are rare, whilst within the broader research area of territorial conflict, studies are often dichotomized into neorea... Read More about Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically.

Israel: A Nation of Contrasts and Cleavages (2018)
Book Chapter
Pinfold, R. G. (2018). Israel: A Nation of Contrasts and Cleavages. In J. Peters, & R. G. Pinfold (Eds.), Understanding Israel: Political, Societal and Security Challenges (1-9). London: Routledge