Barnett Richard Rubin
| Barnett Rubin | |
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| Born |
January 10, 1950 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater |
University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D.) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Yale University(B.A.) |
| Institutions |
New York University Columbia University Yale University |
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Main interests
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Political Science |
Barnett Richard Rubin (born January 10, 1950), a political scientist, is a leading expert on Afghanistan and South Asia. He is the author of eight books and is currently Senior Fellow and Director at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, a leading foreign policy center, as well as previously Senior Advisor to the US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dr. Rubin has advised the United Nations, NATO, the United States and the Afghan government on numerous policy matters, including aid policy, security policy, and diplomatic strategy.
Dr. Rubin was raised in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.
He received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1982. He also received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1977-1978.
He is fluent in English, French, Hebrew, and intermediate in Arabic, Farsi/Dari and German.
Dr. Rubin is Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) of New York University. He has worked at CIC since July 2000. He is also the Senior Adviser to the Special Representative of the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan in the U.S. Department of State.
During 1994-2000 he was Director of the Center for Preventive Action, and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Rubin was Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia at Columbia University from 1990 to 1996. Previously, he was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
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