Bio
Rob Geist Pinfold is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
Rob Geist Pinfold is an Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe, where he teaches on the Arab-Israel conflict. He is also a Lecturer in International Security at King's College London, a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Center Prague, and a Senior Fellow at Charles University's Herzl Center for Israel Studies.
Rob is a scholar of international security whose research intersects the study of grand strategy and territorial conflict. Regionally, he focuses on war and conflict in the contemporary Middle East. His work has been published in academic journals, such as the
Journal of Global Security Studies, International Studies Perspectives, the Journal of Strategic
Studies, Survival and
Global Policy. His full-length book manuscript,
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Alongside his academic outputs, he has published in
Foreign Policy and
War on the Rocks, and has also provided regular commentary to
France 24, al Jazeera, and the
BBC.
