2026 Ian S. Lustick: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	27	1421	1295	711	626	170	6118

Overview

Ian S. Lustick is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their main field of study is Social Sciences, with a total of 43 publications in this area. The most prominent subfields include Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Artificial Intelligence, Epidemiology, and General Social Sciences.

Their research covers several key topics:

Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Middle East Politics and Society
Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
Data Analysis with R
Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

Ian S. Lustick has contributed to a number of academic journals, with frequent publications in:

Frontiers in Political Science
Israeli Studies Review
Middle East Policy
Futures & Foresight Science
Palestine/Israel Review

Recent published papers include:

To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq (2020), Middle East Policy
The simulation manifesto: The limits of brute-force empiricism in geopolitical forecasting (2021), Futures & Foresight Science
Annexation in right-wing Israeli discourse-The case of Ribonut (2022), Frontiers in Political Science
The Peace Process Carousel: The Israel Lobby and the Failure of American Diplomacy (2020), The Middle East Journal
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence (2022), Survival

Ian S. Lustick has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Philip E. Tetlock
Nathaniel Shils
Oded Haklai
Ronnie Olesker
Mira Sucharov

Best Publications

Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel's Control of a National Minority

Ian Lustick

1188
Citations
Unsettled states, disputed lands : Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza

Ian S. Lustick

712
Citations
History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias

Ian S. Lustick

655
Citations
Stability in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism versus Control

Ian Lustick

645
Citations
For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel

Ian Lustick

471
Citations
Secessionism in multicultural states: Does sharing power prevent or encourage it?

Ian S. Lustick;Dan Miodownik;Roy J. Eidelson

366
Citations
The Absence of Middle Eastern Great Powers: Political “Backwardness” in Historical Perspective

Ian S. Lustick

285
Citations
Lijphart, Lakatos, and Consociationalism

Ian S. Lustick

228
Citations
Trapped in the War on Terror

Ian Lustick

214
Citations
Agent-based modelling of collective identity: testing constructivist theory.

Ian S. Lustick

199
Citations
Israel as a non-arab state: the political implications of mass immigration of non-jews

Ian S. Lustick

185
Citations
Right-sizing the state : the politics of moving borders

Brendan O'Leary;Ian Lustick;Thomas M. Callaghy

118
Citations
Explaining the Variable Utility of Disjointed Incrementalism: Four Propositions

Ian Lustick

111
Citations
PS-I: A User-Friendly Agent-Based Modeling Platform for Testing Theories of Political Identity and Political Stability

Ian Lustick

96
Citations
Taking Evolution Seriously: Historical Institutionalism and Evolutionary Theory

Ian S Lustick

76
Citations
Hegemony and the riddle of nationalism: The dialectics of nationalism and religion in the Middle East

Ian S. Lustick

74
Citations
New Nationalisms of the Developed West

Ian Lustick;Edward A. Tiryakian;Ronald Rogowski

67
Citations
Abstractions, Ensembles, and Virtualizations Simplicity and Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling

Ian S. Lustick;Dan Miodownik

65
Citations
To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq

Ian S. Lustick

53
Citations
The Oslo Agreement as an Obstacle to Peace

Ian S. Lustick

27
Citations
Are We Trapped in the War on Terror

Ian Lustick;Ivan Eland;Rand Beers;Edward Luttwak

26
Citations
Has Israel Annexed East Jerusalem

Ian S. Lustick

22
Citations
The Disciplines of Political Science: Studying the Culture of Rational Choice as a Case in Point.

Ian S. Lustick

19
Citations
Exile and return : predicaments of Palestinians and Jews

Ann Mosely Lesch;Ian Lustick

15
Citations
Israel's Migration Balance Demography, Politics, and Ideology

Ian S. Lustick

13
Citations
For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel

John C. Campbell;Ian S. Lustick

4
Citations
Israel-On the Margins: The Arab Population in the Israeli Economy

Ian S. Lustick

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania

Brendan O'Leary University of Pennsylvania

John C. Campbell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

William B. Quandt University of Virginia

Fred Halliday London School of Economics and Political Science

David D. Laitin Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Ian S. Lustick

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