Badredine Arfi
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Email:barfi@polisci.ufl.edu
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Badredine Arfi received a Ph.D. in physics in 1988 and a Ph.D. in political science/international relations in 1996 both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teaching and research interests include theories of international relations, international security, politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Islamic politics, game theory, mathematical modeling, and fuzzy logic methodologies. Professor Arfi's scholarly articles appear in such journals as International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Political Analysis, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Rationality and Society, Democratization, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, and Physica A. He is the author of "International Change and the Stability of Multi-ethnic States" (Indiana University Press, 2005). He has lectured widely on topics in theories of international relations and security, politics of Middle East and North Africa, US foreign policy, delivering invited papers at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Arfi is currently writing three books, one on linguistic fuzzy logic methodology in political science, a second one on going beyond the "Newtonian Clock" logic that has dominated social sciences to building a quantum logic-based approach to the study of social and political phenomena, and a third one on the role of discursive power in the theories and practice of international relations based on an approach that combines insights from Derridean deconstruction with insights from Lacanian psychoanalysis.
