Dov Waxman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending/Defining the Nation (2006), as well as numerous articles, reviews and book chapters. Professor Waxman serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Israel Studies and was previously the associate editor of its journal, the Israel Studies Forum.