Lawrence P. Rubin

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1 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Lawrence P. Rubin Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Atlanta, GA Georgia Institute of Technology Director of Graduate Studies ( ) Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Atlanta, GA Georgia Institute of Technology Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Cambridge, MA Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Lecturer in Arab Politics, Crown Center for Middle East Studies Waltham, MA Department of Politics, Brandeis University EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (August 2009) Los Angeles, CA Department of Political Science Visiting Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( ) Jerusalem, Israel Grad.Student Department of Political Science Diploma University of Oxford (1998) Oxford, England Faculty of Oriental Studies, OCHJS M.A. London School of Economics and Political Science (1997) London, England Department of International History B.A. University of California, Berkeley (1996) Berkeley, CA Department of History PUBLICATIONS Books: The End of Strategic Stability? Nuclear and Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries (Georgetown University Press, 2018) with Adam Stulberg as co-editor Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics (Stanford University Press, 2014) Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism, (Routledge 2011) with Rohan Gunaratna and Jolene Jerard as co-editors Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals: The Ascendance of Official Islams Democracy and Security 13:4 (2018) with Michael Robbins Islamic Political Activism among Israel s Negev Bedouin Population, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 44:3 (2017)

2 Page 2 of 6 The Rise of Official Islam in Jordan, Politics, Religion, and Ideology 14:1 (Winter 2013) with Michael Robbins Documenting Saddam Hussein s Iraq, Contemporary Security Policy 32:2 (Summer 2011) Islam, Domestic Politics, and International Relations, International Studies Review 13:1 (January 2011) Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 20, Issue 4, 2008 with Lisa Blaydes Book chapters: "Neoclassical Realism: Domestic Politics, Systemic Pressures, and the Impact on Foreign Policy since the Arab Spring" Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East (Forthcoming 2018) with Thomas Juneau, Steven Lobell and Norrin Ripsman Introduction in Comparative Perspectives on Strategic Stability (Georgetown University Press, 2018) with Adam Stulberg Conclusion in Comparative Perspectives on Strategic Stability (Georgetown University Press, 2018) with Adam Stulberg Introduction with Rohan Gunaratna in Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism, (Routledge, 2011) Egypt s Non-Kinetic Approaches to Counter-Terrorism in the 1990s in Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism, (Routledge, 2011) Dealing with the Damage: How to Manage a Nuclear Iran, In Debating 21 st Century Nuclear Issues, eds. Owen Price and Jenifer Mackby (Washington D.C.: CSIS, 2007) with David Palkki Egyptian Threat Perception of Iranian Nuclear Proliferation: A Regional Response? Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington D.C.: CSIS, 2007) Other publications: How states can use Official Islam to limit radical extremism, The Washington Post, November 3, 2017, U.S. Foreign Policy in The Middle East amidst Regional Disorder and Entangled Alliances, Working Paper, Sea Control and Foreign Policy, U.S. Naval War College 2017 How to give countering terrorism a fighting chance, The National Interest, January 17, 2017, with Jenna Jordan and Margaret Kosal, The Strategic Illogic of Counterterrorism Policy, The Washington Quarterly 38:4 (Winter 2017) ISIS Containment Doctrine, The National Interest, June 14, 2016, with Jenna Jordan and Margaret Kosal, Why Israel Outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, Lawfare, December 7, 2015,

3 Page 3 of 6 Why the Islamic State won t become a normal state, published in Islam and International Order POMEPS Studies 15 (July 22, 2015), also published in The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, July 9, 2015, How Jordan uses Islam against the Islamic State, The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, November 19, 2014, Who s afraid of an Islamic state? The Washington Post, Monkey Cage October 2, Islamic Political Activism in Israel, Center for Middle East Policy Analysis No. 32, Brookings Institution (April 2014) Another Middle East Battle Brews, Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 21, A Typology of Soft Powers in Middle East Politics, Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, December Selected Book Reviews Nathan Brown, When Victory is Not an Option (Cambridge 2009) in International Journal of Middle East Studies 45:3 (2013), Rachel M. Scott The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims in a Muslim State, Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 45, No.1 (Summer 2011), Religiously Challenged A Review of Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the secular state, from Christian Militias to Al-Qaeda, by Mark Juergensmeyer, Middle East Policy, Vol. 15, No.4, 2008 UNDER REVIEW A structural theory of status-seeking behavior (R/R) with Jenna Jordan and Phil Baxter RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy Washington, DC Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellow Associate Editor, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence Los Angeles, CA Assistant Editor, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence 2010 Consultant, Conflict Records Research Center Washington, DC National Defense University 2006 Adjunct Staff, RAND Corporation Washington, DC 2004 Visiting Scholar, National Defense University Washington, DC Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies

4 Page 4 of 6 INVITED LECTURES Comparing Iraqi and Syrian uses of Chemical Weapons, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, May 10, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East amidst Regional Disorder and Entangled Alliances, April 5, 2017, Naval War College Annual Symposium, Newport, RI The Sykes-Picot Agreement and modern Middle East identities, Fort Benning, GA, May 16, 2016 Balancing the Brotherhood: Regime Security in the post-arab spring Naval War College, Newport, RI, May 28, 2015 Balancing the Brotherhood and the crisis of ISIS, Aarhus University, Denmark, May 7, 2015 The US War on ISIS, NATO Defense College, Rome, Italy, March 8, 2015 Ideological Threats in Arab Politics, University of Central Florida, September 29, 2014 Tailoring not Teetering: US foreign policy in the Arabian Gulf, Patuxent Defense Forum, St. Mary s City, MD, April 20, 2014 Arab threat perceptions of Iran s nuclear program, Public Policy and Nuclear Threats, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, August 18, 2013 Israeli Islamists or Islamist Israelis Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1, 2013 Arab states and nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, La Jolla, CA, University of California, San Diego, August 22, 2012 A Year after the Arab Spring: Old and New Fears, Selinsgrove, PA, Susquehanna University, January 30, 2012 Politics and Protest in the Middle East, Founders Day, Georgia Institute of Technology, March, 15, 2011 Threats and Opportunity in US-Egyptian Relations, Morehouse College, February 14, 2011 Ideology and counter-terrorism, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1, 2011 Understanding Saudi Foreign Policy, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ottawa, Canada, May 11, 2010 Assessing US-EU Cooperation during the Bush Administration s Global War on Terror, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Metropolitan University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, March 12, 2010 "Ideology as a Counterterrorism Tool: Lessons from the Egyptian Experience," Naval Postgraduate School, Monterrey, California, March 18, 2009 Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Lessons from Egypt, International Conference on Terrorism Rehabilitation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, February 22, 2009

5 Page 5 of 6 Power, Ideology, and Threat Perception: Why States Fear Islamist Regimes, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, October 8, 2008 Does Super Tuesday Really Matter for the Middle East? National Security Fellows Program, UCSD, La Jolla, California, February 7, 2008 Partnership or Proliferation? US relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, Monterrey, California, October 24, 2006 SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Tribal Structures as Political Opportunity: Islamic Political Activism Among Israel s Bedouin Population, American Political Science Association, August 30, 2014, Washington, D.C. (Nominated for Best Paper in Religion & Politics) Examining Islamic Political Activism in the Jewish State, March 27, 2014, International Studies Association, Toronto Canada The Islamic Movement in Israel, Middle East Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, November 17, 2012 Neo-praetorianism in Egypt? International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, April 3, 2012 Fatwas and Foreign Policy Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL March 31, 2011 Energy Policy and Civilian Nuclear Policy in the Middle East, Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, Washington DC, March 25, 2011 How Political Islam Affects Regime Policy with Michael Robbins, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, May 4, 2010, Cambridge, MA Why States Fear Islamist Regimes: Threat Perception and Soft Power Politics, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, November 30, 2009, Cambridge, MA Understanding Egypt s Nuclear Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, February 28, 2008 How to Manage a Nuclear Iran, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 23, 2007 Iran, Egypt, and Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East presented at Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, conference on Public Policy and Nuclear Threats, January 19, 2007, Washington, D.C. Rethinking Risks and Reassessing Rewards: US-Saudi and US-Egyptian relations RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C., August 30, 2006 GRANTS AND AWARDS Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellowship, Nuclear Security DTRA: Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (72K, Co-PI)

6 Page 6 of 6 Israel Institute (10K) Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech, Research Grant (20K) 2013 Project on Middle East Political Science (4K) 2011 Hollings Center for International Dialogue (Research Grant-US-Egypt relations) (10K) 2010 Schusterman Center for Israel Studies 2009 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy (John L. Stanley Award) 2008 Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict Dissertation Year Fellowship Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic, Egypt) National Science Foundation-IGERT Fellowship, Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic) Research Mentorship for the Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA 2002 Dorot Travel Grant (Israel) 2001 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic, Morocco) 2001 LANGUAGES AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING Modern Standard Arabic (Advanced proficiency), Hebrew (Fluent), Egyptian Dialect (Intermediate) Arabic Programs: Merkaz Fajr, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt Spring, Winter 2006 Merkaz Fajr, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt Fall 2005 Sana a Institute for Arabic Language (SIAL), Sana a, Yemen Summer 2004 American Language Institute Fes (ALIF), Fes, Morocco Summer 2001 UCLA Nuclear Policy Training Program: Public Policy and Nuclear Threats July 2003 Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, UCSD International Policy Studies Institute, Bridging the Gap 2011 George Washington University Reviewer: International Security, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Canadian Journal of Political Science; Politics, Religion and Ideology; Security Studies, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Middle East Journal, World Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Georgetown University Press; Ashgate Press, Oxford University Press, Rowman & Littlefield; Korean Journal of International Studies (Editorial Board Member)