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1. Name:	Ian S. Lustick
2. Title:	Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
3. Biography:	Dr. Lustick is an American political scientist and specialist on the modern history and politics of the Middle East. He is currently a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since 1991. His focus lies in comparative politics, international politics, Middle Eastern politics, and agent-based, computer assisted modeling for the social sciences. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics, political identities and institutions, techniques of hegemonic analysis, the expansion and contraction of states, and on relationships among complexity, evolution, and politics. Dr. Lustick has served as a consultant on the Middle East and national security affairs for every administration since that of President Carter. He has been the a recipient of awards from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences Research Council, and the United States Institute for Peace. His present research focuses on the politics of Jewish and non-Jewish migration into and out of Palestine/the Land of Israel, the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the applications of agent-based modeling in the social sciences, techniques of disciplined counterfactual analysis, and the problem of modeling political violence.
4. Involvement/Affiliations:	Professor, Dartmouth University, 1976-1991 Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, 1979-1980 Advisory Board Member, Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-USA President, Politics and History, American Political Science Association Founder and President, Association for Israel Studies Member, Council on Foreign Relations
5. Education:	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1972 B.A. Brandeis University, 1971
6. Published Works:	Trapped in the War on Terror, 2006 Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza, 1993 For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, 1988 State-Building Failure in British Ireland and French Algeria, 1985 Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel's Control of a National Minority, 1980 Israel and Jordan: The Implication of an Adversarial Partnership, 1978
7. Contact Info:	Email: ilustick@sas.upenn.edu Phone: (215) 898-5719