He specializes on the politics of the Middle East, especially Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He received his undergraduate education at Oxford University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). His articles and reviews have appeared in The Middle East Quarterly, Current History, World Policy Journal, The Washington Quarterly, Commentary, Israel Affairs, and Israel Studies Forum, among others. He is currently on sabbatical in Israel where he is a visiting scholar at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University. Here is an article about his experience there. Outside the Bubble