Professor David Newman OBE holds the Chair of Geopolitics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Newman founded the Department of Politics and Government at BGU in 1998, and the Centre for the Study of European Politics (now the Simone Weil centre for European Research) in 2003. From 2010-2016, Newman served as Dean of the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and in 2013 as awarded the OBE for promoting scientific cooperation between Britain and Israel. From 1998-2014, Newman served as chief editor of the academic Journal, Geopolitics.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is Matthias Kuentzel and Russell Berman talking about the JCPOA talks in Vienna from the perspective of Germany. Kuentzel studies this relationship and sheds light on several aspects including nuclear politics, anti-Americanism in Europe, and the antisemitism of the Iranian regime.