Faculty-Student Seminar
(in conjunction with the Philosophy Forum)
You are cordially invited to attend a seminar with Barnett R. Rubin. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1982, he taught political science at Yale University. In 1990, he moved to Columbia University to become the Director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia. From 1994 to 2000 he served as the Director of the Center for Preventive Action and as the Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Since 2000 he has been at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, where he directs the program on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan. In November-December 2001, he served as special adviser to the U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, during the negotiations that produced the Bonn Agreement. The U.N. sought his advice on the drafting of the constitution of Afghanistan, the Afghanistan Compact, and the Afghanistan National Development Strategy. He currently is chair of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (a program of the Social Science Research Council), a member of the Executive Board of Human Rights Watch/Asia, and the Board of the Open Society Institute’s Central Eurasia Project. His book publications include:
His articles on conflict prevention, human rights, and state formation have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Orbis, Survival, International Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books. He is a frequent guest on The Lehrer News Hour.
In addition, Dr. Rubin will give the Ezio Cappadocia Memorial Lecture on Politics and History that evening at 8:00 P.M. in the University Theatre. The lecture is entitled “What Is at Stake in Afghanistan?”