Anders Persson is a political scientist and part of the research environment European Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is the author of The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1971-2013: In Pursuit of a Just Peace (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and a contributor in Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance, Tartir & Seidel eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). His research has been previously published in the Journal of European Integration, Mediterranean Politics, and Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security. He also regularly appears as an expert commentator in Swedish media and writes for the Huffington Post, Haaretz, Al-Jazeera, EU Observer and Politico EU.