Rob Geist Pinfold
Postdoctoral Researcher
Rob Geist Pinfold is a postdoctoral researcher at Peace Research Center Prague.
He is also a lecturer in International Peace and Security at Durham University. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and the National Security Studies Centre at the University of Haifa, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Herzl Center for Israel Studies at Charles University Prague. Currently, Rob teaches courses at the Hebrew University and Charles University.
Research focus
Rob's research intersects strategy and territorial conflict. He has worked on grand strategy in theory and practice, as well as territorial interventions and occupations, in both the Middle East and beyond.
Selected Publications
PINFOLD, Rob Geist. Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022) [forthcoming]
Pinfold R. G. (2022). Security, Terrorism, and Territorial Withdrawal: Critically Reassessing the Lessons of Israel's “Unilateral Disengagement” from the Gaza Strip. International Studies Perspectives
PINFOLD, Rob Geist (2021). ‘Territorial Withdrawal as Multilateral Bargaining: Revisiting Israel’s “Unilateral” Withdrawals from Gaza and Southern Lebanon’, The Journal of Strategic Studies 44 (3): 418-449.
PINFOLD, Rob Geist and M. L. R. Smith (2022). ‘Theorising Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 45 (4): 285-310.
BACKGROUND
Rob holds a PhD. in War Studies from King’s College London. A British-Israeli, he divides his time between the UK and Israel, with frequent stops in Prague to teach within Charles University's Department of Security Studies.