Barnett R. Rubin

BARNETT RICHARD RUBIN
Director of Studies, Center on International Cooperation New York University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Conflict resolution and preventive diplomacy, conflict and peace,South and Central Asia, human rights, Islamic politics.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:
Council on Foreign Relations: Director Center for Preventive Action, 1994-2000.
Columbia University: Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Central Asia; Director, Project on Political Order and Conflict in the Former Soviet Union, 1990-6;
United States Institute of Peace: Peace Fellow,1989-1990;
Yale University: Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1982-89.

EDUCATION:
Yale University, B.A; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Paris; University of Chicago, M.A., Ph.D.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
MEMBER:
Council on Foreign Relations; Executive Board, Human Rights Watch Asia Division;
Advisory Board, Human Rights Watch Europe and Central Asia;
Board of Soros Humanitarian Fund for Tajikistan;
Member of conseil Scientifique, Fondation Medecins sans frontieres;
M member, Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad.

AWARDS:
Fulbright Fellowship, 1977-1978; U.S. Institute of Peace grant on the formation of a new state system in Central Eurasia, 1989-1990.

AUTHOR:
Afghanistan from Buffer State to Failed State: International Conflict and Cooperation, 1995.
The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System, 1995.