Ian S. Lustick - Professor, Bess W. Heyman Chair 3440 Market St., Room 306 Fall 2009 Office Hours: Wed, 2-4 Phone: 898-5719 Email: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1976. Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)(.doc)

Dr. Lustick is interested 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 is 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 of Peace. Before coming to Penn, Professor Lustick taught for fifteen years at Dartmouth College and worked for one year in the Department of State. His present research focuses the politics of Jewish and non-Jewish migration into and out of Palestine/the Land of Israel, on prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, on applications of agent-based modeling in the social sciences, techniques of disciplined counterfactual analysis, and the problem of modeling political violence.  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.

Dr. Lustick's "Agent-Based Identity Repertoire Model" for ABIR-28: Executable file and documentation file are available for download. Featured in Terror Games By Jeffrey Rothfeder Popular Science, March 2004 Volume 264 #3.

PS-I toolkit, Beta. For program, documentation, and source code: http://ps-i.sourceforge.net/

The model can also be found at ABIR (Software developed in collaboration with Dr. Vladimir Dergachev).

Areas of Interest
• Comparative Politics
• International Politics
• Organization Theory
• Middle Eastern Politics

Links to Selected Publications and Papers

"Taking Evolution Seriously." Political Concepts: A Working Paper Series of the Committee on Concepts and Methods, October 2009.

"Abstractions, Ensembles, and Virtualizations: Simplicity and Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling." Comparative Politics, January 2009.  Vol. 41, no. 2. (with Dan Miodownik)

"Abandoning the Iron Wall: Israel and the Middle Eastern 'Muck.'" Middle East Policy
(September 2008)

"Yerushalayim, al-Quds, and the Wizard of Oz: The Problem of Jerusalem after Camp David II and the Aqsa Intifada," in Jerusalem: Idea and Reality, Tamar Mayer and Suleiman A. Mourad, eds. (London: Routledge, 2008) pp. 283-302.

"The War on Terror:  When the Response is the Catastrophe," in Emergency Management in Higher Education:  Current Practices and Conversations, Jessica A. Hubbard, ed.  (Fairfax, VA:  The Public Entity Risk Institute, 2008) pp. 73-98.

"Israel's Future: The Time Factor.  A Debate between Efraim Inbar and Ian S. Lustick," Israel Studies Forum, Volume 23, Issue 1, Summer 2008: 3-11.

Website link for Ian Lustick's book:
"Trapped in the War on Terror"

"Fractured Fairy Tale:  The War on Terror and the Emperor's New Clothes"

"Defining Violence:  A Plausibility Probe Using Agent-Based Modeling"

• "Hegemony and the Riddle of Nationalism: The Dialectics of Political Identity in the Middle East" Ethnic Conflict and International Politics in the Middle East, Leonard Binder, ed. (Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999) pp.332-359.
(Read this chapter as a working paper)
(Read it as published in Logos, Summer 2002, Vol 1, #3.)

• "Negotiating Truth:  The Holocaust, Lehavdil, and al-Nakba," Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 60, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2006) pp. 51-80.

• "Through Blood and Fire Shall Peace Arise." Tikkun, Vol. 17, No. 3., pp. 13-19.
(Read this article)

• "Yerushalayim, al-Quds and the Wizard of Oz: Facing the Problem of Jerusalem after Camp David II and the al-Aqsa Intifada." The Journal of Israeli History, Vol.23, No.2, Autumn 2004, pp. 200–215.
(Read this article)

• “Israeli History: Who is Fabricating What?” Survival, Autumn 1997, pp. 156-166.
(Read Dr. Lustick's review of Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians' by Efraim Karsh and Efraim Karsh's response to the review)

• "Hegemonic Beliefs and Territorial Rights." International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Vol. 20 (1996), pp. 1-14.
(Read this article)

• Unsettled states, disputed lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza. (Cornell University Press, 1993).
(Buy this book from the publisher)

• "To Build and to Be Built By: Israel and the Hidden Logic of the Iron Wall," Israel Studies, Vol. I, No. 1, 1996, pp. 196-223.
(Read this article available in 2 pdf files: Part 1; Part 2)

• For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988.
(Electronic version)

• State-Building Failure in British Ireland and French Algeria, Berkeley Institute of International Studies, 1985.
(Read this article available in 5 pdf files: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5)

Courses Sampler
• Political Identities and Political Institutions
• Hegemonic Analysis (Graduate Seminar)
• Nationalism & Politics of Ethnicity
• Politics, Complexity, and Evolution
• Nations, States & Empires (Graduate Seminar)