Lawrence Rubin

About

Lawrence Rubin is an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and serves as co-director of the Georgia Tech DC Program. His research interests include Middle East politics and international security, with a specific focus on intra-regional relations, religion and politics, nuclear proliferation, and emerging technologies. Rubin has conducted research in countries such as Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the UAE, and Yemen, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has held positions at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Brandeis University, the National Defense University, and the RAND Corporation. Rubin is also an associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and has served as a senior advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy, working in the Middle East and Countering WMD offices. His scholarly work includes authoring and editing books on nuclear weapons, regional rivalries, and ideational threats in Arab politics, as well as numerous articles and publications in leading journals and outlets. Rubin’s academic background includes a PhD in Political Science from UCLA, along with degrees from the University of Oxford, London School of Economics, and UC Berkeley.

Research topics

• Political science
• History
• Political economy
• Law
• Sociology

Selected publications

• How small states acquire status: A social network analysis

  International Area Studies Review · 2018-05-22 · 40 citations

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  A number of recent studies have recognized the importance of status in international politics. While this developing scholarship has largely focused on great and middle powers, the pursuit of status by small states remains underexplored. For example, many studies claim that small states such as Qatar ‘punch above their weight’ in international politics in pursuit of status. How do small states without significant military power acquire status? How can we assess change in status over time? This p…

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• The End of Strategic Stability?: Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries

  2018-01-01 · 24 citations

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  During the Cold War, the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability. It was for coexistence and a status quo frozen in place by the calculus of mutually assured destruction from nuclear weapons. In short, nuclear weapons promoted great-power peace. The United States made and continues to make its decisions about changes to force posture, risk of escalation, and prospects for arms control with strategic stability in mind. But today's international system is complicated by regional riv…

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• National Security Implications of Emerging Satellite Technologies

  Orbis · 2020-01-01 · 8 citations

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• China’s 5G networks: A tool for advancing digital authoritarianism abroad?

  Orbis · 2022-01-01 · 7 citations

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• A Middle East space race? Motivations, trajectories, and regional politics

  Space Policy · 2024-01-19 · 6 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Jenna Jordan

  4 shared

• Jolene Jerard

  4 shared

• Adam N. Stulberg

  Moscow State Institute of International Relations

  4 shared

• Liam Johnson

  University of Melbourne

  4 shared

• Rohan Gunaratna

  Medical Protective

  4 shared

• Margaret E. Kosal

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  3 shared

• Michael Robbins

  International Psychoanalytical Association

  3 shared

• Anna H. Smeragliuolo

  Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• 2024 CETL Innovation in Co-Curricular Education Award
• CIOS Honor Roll, Spring 2024

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