Career: Barry Rubin 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 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. Professor Rubin also writes the Middle East column for The Jerusalem Post. 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 University Press. He has been a Fulbright and a Council on Foreign Relations/National Endowment for the Humanities International Affairs Fellow, a US 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 programme on terrorism funded by the Ford and the Bradley Foundations), and at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. Barry Rubin is Editor of the journal Turkish Studies (see url below).

Publications include: authored books: 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, Modern Dictators: Third World Coupmakers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrants 1987, Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East 1992, The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building 1999; edited books: four books on terrorism and From War to Peace, 1973–1993; co-edited books: The Israel-Arab Reader (sixth 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; 15 monographs, including 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; more than 50 book chapters, including 20 chapters on U.S. Middle East Policy for the annual Middle East Contemporary Survey; numerous articles in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Middle East Quarterly, and many other publications

Contact details: Address: The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, PO Box 167, Herzliya 46150, Israel; Tel: +972 (0)9 960-2736; Fax: +972 (0)9 956-8605; Email: profbarryrubin@yahoo.com ; Email: gloria@idc.ac.il ; Website: http://gloria.idc.ac.il/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14683849.asp/ .