{"585628":{"#nid":"585628","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Lawrence Rubin on Islam and Ideational Balancing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELawrence Rubin, associate professor in the Ivan Allen College Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed in \u0026ldquo;Lawrence Rubin on Islam and Ideational Balancing,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;an episode of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch On Religion\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Epodcast\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECan the ideas proposed by one nation-state threaten another nation-state?\u0026nbsp; If so, how do the threatened nations respond?\u0026nbsp; We probe these questions with respect to Islam and the two Islamic political revolutions in Iran (1979) and Sudan (1989) with\u0026nbsp;Prof. Lawrence Rubin, an associate professor of political science in\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.\u0026nbsp; Prof. Rubin reminisces about how he came to study the role of ideas in foreign policy, and then reviews the two dominant schools of thought in international relations theory \u0026mdash; realism and constructivism.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.researchonreligion.org\/religion-politics\/lawrence-rubin-on-islam-and-ideational-balancing\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-01-09 16:21:22","changed_gmt":"2017-01-09 16:21:22","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"enfamil","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.researchonreligion.org\/religion-politics\/lawrence-rubin-on-islam-and-ideational-balancing","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64057":{"id":"64057","type":"image","title":"Assistant Professor Lawrence Rubin","body":null,"created":"1449176720","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:20","changed":"1475894561","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:41","alt":"Assistant Professor Lawrence Rubin","file":{"fid":"191924","name":"tqq59442.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqq59442_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqq59442_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":75461,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tqq59442_0.jpg?itok=u8Xam69s"}}},"media_ids":["64057"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}