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Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 17, 2010
Summary Sentence:
Hayes and Rubin expand Nunn School expertise
Full Summary:
The Ivan Allen College welcomes two new faculty this year, both in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.
Dr. Jarrod Hayes
Dr. Lawrence RubinThe Ivan Allen College welcomes two new faculty this year, both in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.
Jarrod Hayes
Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Jarrod Hayes received his PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he was the ConocoPhillips Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Oklahoma, a joint appointment between the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Area Studies. He has taught courses on International Relations theory, comparative national security, and international security. His research interests fit most neatly into the areas of international security and foreign policy analysis.
Currently, Hayes' research focuses on the role of identity in the construction of security within democracies,although his research interests are considerably broader and include issues in environmental security, nuclear weapons proliferation, international rivalries, international relations theory, strategy and arms control, and regional level foreign policy and security dynamics in Europe, South Asia, and East Asia. His work has been published in International Studies Quarterly. Hayes is a member of, and regularly presents at the annual conferences of, the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association.
Lawrence Rubin
Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Lawrence Rubin’s research interests include comparative Middle East politics and international security with a specific focus on Islam and politics, Arab foreign policies, and nuclear proliferation. He holds a PhD in Political Science from UCLA and has earned degrees from UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford. Rubin has been a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2009-2010) and has served as a lecturer in Arab politics at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University (2008-2009). Rubin is currently the Associate Editor for the journal Terrorism and Political Violence. Outside of academia, Rubin has held positions at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, and the RAND Corporation. Rubin has conducted research in Morocco, Egypt, Israel, the UAE, and Yemen.
