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A native of Philadelphia, Rubin earned a Doctor of Philosophy in history from Yale University in 1999.
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Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes by Michael Rubin (2015-03-10)
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Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Middle East in Focus)
(Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides th...)
Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1403962766/?tag=2022091-20
Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
( The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Ro...)
The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Rogue regimesgovernments and groups that eschew diplomatic normality, sponsor terrorism, and proliferate nuclear weaponsthreaten the United States around the globe. Because sanctions and military action are so costly, the American strategy of first resort is dialogue, on the theory that it never hurts to talk to enemies.” Seldom is conventional wisdom so wrong. Engagement with rogue regimes is not cost-free, as Michael Rubin demonstrates by tracing the history of American diplomacy with North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Further challenges to traditional diplomacy have come from terrorist groups, such as the PLO in the 1970s and 1980s, or Hamas and Hezbollah in the last two decades. The argument in favor of negotiation with terrorists is suffused with moral equivalence, the idea that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Rarely does the actual record of talking to terrorists come under serious examination. While soldiers spend weeks developing lessons learned after every exercise, diplomats generally do not reflect on why their strategy toward rogues has failed, or consider whether their basic assumptions have been faulty. Rubin’s analysis finds that rogue regimes all have one thing in common: they pretend to be aggrieved in order to put Western diplomats on the defensive. Whether in Pyongyang, Tehran, or Islamabad, rogue leaders understand that the West rewards bluster with incentives and that the U.S. State Department too often values process more than results.
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Michael Rubin
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Career
He previously worked as an official at the Pentagon, where he dealt with issues in the Middle East. Between 2004 and 2009, he was editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Rubin has lectured in history at Yale University, Hebrew University, Johns Hopkins University, and worked as visiting lecturer at Universities of Sulaymaniyah, Salahuddin, and Duhok, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Between 2002 and 2004, Rubin worked as a country director for Iran and Iraq in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from which he was seconded to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Rubin currently teaches senior United States. Army, United States. Marine, and United States. Navy leadership prior to their deployment to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan.
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Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Middle East in Focus)
(Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides th...)
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Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
( The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Ro...)
- Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes by Michael Rubin (2015-03-10)
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Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Middle East in Focus)
