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MERIA Editor Professor Barry Rubin <profbarryrubin@yahoo.com> is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is also Research Director of the IDC’s Lauder School, the editor of the journal Turkish Studies, and has been serving as Deputy Director of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies. In addition, he is a senior fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center's International Center for Counterterrorist
Policy. Prof. Rubin also writes The Jerusalem Post's Middle East column.
Currently, he is writing a biography of Yasir Arafat for St. Martin's Press as well as a book on the contemporary Middle East, The Tragedy
of the Middle East, for Cambridge University Press and editing a reader Anti-Americanism, Terrorism, and the Middle East for Oxford His most recent book is The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, October 1999), and can be ordered from Harvard University Press or by calling call (800) 448-2242. His books Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East and Modern Dictators: Third World Coupmakers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrants can now be downloaded for free from this website. Among his other books are Assimilation and Its Discontents; Revolution Until Victory: The Politics and History of the PLO; Istanbul Intrigues; Modern Dictators; Secrets of State: The State Department and the Struggle over U.S. Foreign Policy; Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran; Arab States and the Palestine Conflict; Islamic Fundamentalists in Egyptian Politics; The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1941-1947; International News & the American Media and How Others Report Us. He has edited four books on terrorism and From War to Peace, 1973-1993, and co-edited eight books: The Israel-Arab Reader (6th edition); Turkey and Its World: The Emergence of a Multi-Regional Power; Friends of America: The Experiences of U.S. Allies; Critical Essays on Israeli, Society, Politics, and Culture; Iraq's Road to War; The Central American Crisis Reader; The Human Rights Reader and Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy. Professor Rubin's 15 monographs include Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab States, Defining the New Middle East, North Korea's Threat to the Middle East and the Middle East's Threat to Asia, The Palestinian Charter: Prospects for Change and Options for Israel, and Middle East Radical States and Movements. He has also written over 50 book chapters, including 20 chapters on U.S. Middle East Policy for the annual Middle East Contemporary Survey. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Middle East Quarterly, and many other publications. He has been a Fulbright and a Council on Foreign Relations/National Endowment for the Humanities International Affairs Fellow; a U.S. Institute of Peace, Harry Guggenheim Foundation, and Leonard Davis Center grantee; a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute (where he directed the program on terrorism funded by the Ford and the Bradley Foundations), and Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. |