Joseph Kostiner participated in an International Workshop on Commerce in the Mediterranean, which was organized by Haifa University’s Center for Iranian and Gulf Studies on June 5-6, 2008. He delivered a paper jointly with Eran Segal (of Haifa University) on the development of commerce and the evolution of the pre-oil economy in the Gulf. He spoke on the Gulf Cooperation Council’s collective security efforts at a workshop on “International Relations in the Gulf,” in Doha, Qatar, organized by Georgetown University’s Center for International and Regional Studies, on June 17-18. In July he lectured on Saudi Arabia’s regional coordination efforts in a workshop on “Recent Developments In the Israeli-Palestinian Arena” held at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. His The Marginal Peace: The Policies of the Gulf States towards the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process and Israel (Hebrew) was published by the Tami Steimetz Center in August.

email: kostiner@post.tau.ac.il