ALEXANDRIA FACULTY

 

 

 

Joel Peters, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Government and International Affairs
peters25@vt.edu | (703) 706-8133

ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY

Education
D.Phil. International Relations, St Antony's
College, Oxford (1988)

Courses Taught and Programs:
International Politics
Global Security
Global Governance

Areas of Specialization:
Global Security
Post-Conflict Peace Building
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
European foreign policy

Joel Peters is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech specializing in the field of global security and conflict resolution. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2006 he was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) at the Ben Gurion University.  He has also taught at at the University of Reading, UK and from 1990-96 was a research fellow in the Middle East Program at the  Royal Institute of International Affairs, (Chatham House) London. His research interests and publications cover the Arab-Israeli peace process, regional cooperation (with particular reference to the Middle East and the Mediterranean) and post conflict peacebuilding.  He is the author of 2 books (Israel and Africa:  The Problematic Friendship; and Pathways to Peace:  The Multilateral Arab-Israel Peace Talks); an edited book on Israeli politics (Whither Israel) and some 30 articles, chapters in books and working papers. He is working on two books, an introductory textbook on International Relations and a book on the Israel-Palestinian peace process.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Selected Publications
Introduction to International Relations with R.J.Barry.Jones. Peter Jones and Ken Dark (Manchester University Press: 2001)

Pathways  to Peace: The Multilateral Arab-Israeli Talks (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1996),

Building Bridges:  The Multilateral Arab-Israeli Talks (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994

Co-editor (with Keith Kyle) Whither Israel:  The  Domestic Challenges  (London:  I.B.Tauris/ Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1993),  pp. 259.  Revised and updated paperback version published in 1994, pp. 281.

Israel and Africa : The Problematic Friendship  (London: British Academic Press/I.B. Tauris, 1992),

‘Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Question’ in David Newman and Mohammed Dehaji Middle East Peace and Security, (London, Routledge, Forthcoming 2006)

‘Israel and the Third World’ in Alain Dieckhoff (ed,) Contemporary Israel  (Paris: Fayard, Forthcoming 2007)

(with Orit Gal), ‘International Intervention for Conflict Management and Resolution’ in Mark A. Heller and Rosemary Hollis’ Israel and the Palestinians:  Israeli Policy Options, (London:  Royal Institute for International Affairs, 2005), pp. 73-99.

Practices and their Failure: Arab- Israeli Relations and the Barcelona Process in Emanuael Adler and Beverly Crawford The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region (University of Toronto, Forthcoming 2006)

‘Europe and Arab-Israeli Peace Process’  in Sven Behrendt and Christian-Hanelt (eds) Bound to Cooperate - Europe and the Middle East (Gutersloh:  Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, 2000) pp. 150-172.