FRIDE - Rubin, Barnett

Barnett Rubin

Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation (New York)

Barnett R. Rubin is considered one of the world's foremost experts on Afghanistan and the surrounding region, as well as on conflict prevention and peace building.
He is also deputy chair of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, a member of the Steering Committee of Human Rights Watch/ Europe and Central Asia, the Executive Board of Human Rights Watch/Asia, the Board of the Open Society Institute's Central Eurasia Project, the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières, and the Board of the International League for Human Rights.
He is the author, coauthor and editor of several books including: Blood on the Doorstep: the Politics of Preventing Violent Conflict (2002); The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System (2002, first edition 1995); Post-Soviet Political Order: Conflict and State Building (1998); and The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State (1995).
His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Orbis, Survival, International Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, amongst others.