hosted by Professor Eugene Finkel


Rob Geist Pinfold is Lecturer in International Peace and Security at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs. Alongside his role at Durham, he is a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Center Prague and Kings College London's Centre for Grand Strategy and is a Senior Fellow at Charles University's Herzl Center for Israel Studies.

Pinfold is a scholar of international security whose research intersects the study of strategy and territorial conflict. His work has been published in International Studies Perspectives, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Mediterranean Politics. His full-length book manuscript, Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.