Rate My Professor Ian Lustick

Lustick has received awards from the Carnegie Corporation, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, and United States Institute of Peace. He is a past president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Israel Studies, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has worked as an analyst or consultant for every American administration since the 1970s on intelligence and national security issues related to the Middle East. His key publications include the books Arabs in the Jewish State (1980), State Building in British Ireland and French Algeria (1985), For the Land and the Lord (1988, 1994), Unsettled States, Disputed Lands (1993), Trapped in the War on Terror (2006), and Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (2019). Recent articles feature 'Annexation in right-wing Israeli discourse—The case of Ribonut' (Frontiers in Political Science, 2022), 'The Peace Process Carousel: The Israel Lobby and the Failure of American Diplomacy' (Middle East Journal, 2020), and 'What and Where is Israel: Time for a Gestalt Shift' (The One State Reality, 2023). Lustick has lectured at universities across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, contributing significantly to scholarship on Middle Eastern politics and computational social science.