Ian Lustick
Dr. Lustick is interested comparative politics, international politics, organization theory, and Middle Eastern politics, and teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics, techniques of hegemonic analysis, and on the expansion and contraction of states.
Dr. Lustick will not be accepting new psychology graduate students for fall of 2013.
Political Identities and Political Institutions
• Hegemonic Analysis (Graduate Seminar)
• Nationalism & Politics of Ethnicity
• Politics, Complexity, and Evolution
• Nations, States & Empires (Graduate Seminar)
Political Science Graduate Group; Psychology Graduate Group
Abstractions, Ensembles, and Virtualizations: Simplicity and Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling." Comparative Politics, January 2009. Vol. 41, no. 2. (with Dan Miodownik)
"Abandoning the Iron Wall: Israel and the Middle Eastern 'Muck.'" Middle East Policy
(September 2008)
"Yerushalayim, al-Quds, and the Wizard of Oz: The Problem of Jerusalem after Camp David II and the Aqsa Intifada," in Jerusalem: Idea and Reality, Tamar Mayer and Suleiman A. Mourad, eds. (London: Routledge, 2008) pp. 283-302.
"The War on Terror: When the Response is the Catastrophe," in Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices and Conversations, Jessica A. Hubbard, ed. (Fairfax, VA: The Public Entity Risk Institute, 2008) pp. 73-98.
"Israel's Future: The Time Factor. A Debate between Efraim Inbar and Ian S. Lustick," Israel Studies Forum, Volume 23, Issue 1, Summer 2008: 3-11.
Website link for Ian Lustick's book:
"Trapped in the War on Terror"
"Fractured Fairy Tale: The War on Terror and the Emperor's New Clothes"
"Defining Violence: A Plausibility Probe Using Agent-Based Modeling"
• "Hegemony and the Riddle of Nationalism: The Dialectics of Political Identity in the Middle East" Ethnic Conflict and International Politics in the Middle East, Leonard Binder, ed. (Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999) pp.332-359.
(Read this chapter as a working paper)
(Read it as published in Logos, Summer 2002, Vol 1, #3.)
• "Negotiating Truth: The Holocaust, Lehavdil, and al-Nakba," Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 60, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2006) pp. 51-80.
• "Through Blood and Fire Shall Peace Arise." Tikkun, Vol. 17, No. 3., pp. 13-19.
(Read this article)
• "Yerushalayim, al-Quds and the Wizard of Oz: Facing the Problem of Jerusalem after Camp David II and the al-Aqsa Intifada." The Journal of Israeli History, Vol.23, No.2, Autumn 2004, pp. 200–215.
(Read this article)
• “Israeli History: Who is Fabricating What?” Survival, Autumn 1997, pp. 156-166.
(Read Dr. Lustick's review of Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians' by Efraim Karsh and Efraim Karsh's response to the review)
• "Hegemonic Beliefs and Territorial Rights." International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Vol. 20 (1996), pp. 1-14.
(Read this article)
• Unsettled states, disputed lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza. (Cornell University Press, 1993).
(Buy this book from the publisher)
• "To Build and to Be Built By: Israel and the Hidden Logic of the Iron Wall," Israel Studies, Vol. I, No. 1, 1996, pp. 196-223.
(Read this article available in 2 pdf files: Part 1; Part 2)
• For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988.
(Electronic version)
• State-Building Failure in British Ireland and French Algeria, Berkeley Institute of International Studies, 1985.
(Read this article available in 5 pdf files: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5)