Elizabeth G. Matthews is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University San Marcos, USA. She has written a number of books and articles on world politics and US foreign policy, and is co-editor of the Routledge UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series.

David Newman is professor of Political Geography in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, and co-editor of the International Journal of Geopolitics. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. His research focuses on Geopolitics, Borders and the territorial dimensions of ethnic and national conflict and he has written extensively on topics relating to territory and borders in Israel-Palestine.

Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi holds two doctorate degrees from the University of South Carolina at Columbia and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founding director of the American Studies Center at al-Quds University, the Wasatia Movement - Palestine, and the Jerusalem Studies and Research Institute, and is the author of numerous books and academic articles in English and Arabic.