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Reuven Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy, University of Haifa

This Chair is concerned with issues of national security that contain spatial

expressions, such as natural resources and their distribution, population spread,

physical infrastructure, and environmental elements. The Chair publishes

position papers, offers consultation to senior decision makers, initiates research

projects, holds study days and conferences, publishes books and scholarly works,

and assists research students in the fields listed above. It likewise engages in the

dissemination of these materials in high schools and academic institutions.

The Late Reuven Chaikin (1918-2004)

Reuven Chaikin was born in Tel Aviv, and became a senior partner in the Somekh-

Chaikin accounting firm. He evinced deep interest in geography and geopolitics,

and offered generous assistance in these areas to the University of Haifa.

May his memory be blessed.

Holder of the Reuven Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy:

Arnon Soffer

Style Editor:

Ofra Perri

Cartography Editor:

Noga Yoselevich

Printed in Israel in July 2011

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ISBN 965-7437-27-8