David Newman (political geographer)
| David Newman | |
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4 July 1956 London, UK |
| Fields | Political geography; Geopolitics |
| Institutions | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University |
| Alma mater | Durham University, University of London |
| Known for | Geopolitics, Border research, Territory in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
David Newman OBE (4 July 1956) is a British-Israeli scholar in political geography and geopolitics. He serves as professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Politics and Government and editor of the academic journal Geopolitics. In March 2010, Newman was elected Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for the period 2010–2013, and re-elected for a second period extending until 2016.
David Newman was born in London. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Queen Mary College at the University of London (1978) and a PhD in geography from the University of Durham, England (1981). In 1982 immigrated to Israel, following which he was appointed as lecturer in the Tel Aviv University Department of Geography. In 1987 he became a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1996 to 1998 he served as Director of its Hubert Humphrey Institute for Social Research. In 1988 he founded the Ben-Gurion University Department of Politics and Government, and served as its first chairperson until 2003. That year he facilitated the founding of the BGU Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS), with which he is affiliated.
From 1997 to 2003, and again from 2009 until present, Newman published a weekly op-ed column in the Jerusalem Post. Newman also published essays and opinion columns in newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Times, the Guardian, and Tikkun Magazine. His political activities have focused on the Israeli peace camp, strongly arguing for territorial withdrawal and the establishment of a Palestinian State alongside Israel as part of a Two State solution to the conflict.
From 1999 – 2014, Newman served as editor, together with Professor John Agnew from UCLA, and more recently with Prof Simon Dalby from the University of Waterloo in Canada, of the international journal Geopolitics, published quarterly by Taylor and Francis (Routledge).
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