Mailing address
One Brattle Square 514
Mailbox #134
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Lawrence Rubin
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-8039
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: lawrence_rubin@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Lawrence Rubin is a Research Fellow with the Dubai Initiative. Rubin holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA and has earned degrees from UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford. Rubin’s dissertation was titled "Why Arab States Fear Islamist Regimes: Threat Perception and Soft Power Politics." He has served as a lecturer on the Robert and Myra Kraft Chair in Arab politics at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, and has been a fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation's Public Policy and Nuclear Threats program. Rubin is currently the Associate Editor for the journal of Terrorism and Political Violence.
Outside of Academia, Rubin has held positions at the National Defense University's Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and the RAND Corporation. Rubin's research, which focuses on religion and international security, inter-Arab foreign policies, and nuclear proliferation, has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict at the University of California, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and the U.S. Department of Education. Rubin has conducted research in Morocco, Egypt, Israel, the UAE, and Yemen.
