Michael RubinMichael Rubin is a resident scholar in foreign policy studies at AEI, where he researches Arab democracy; Kurdish society; and domestic politics in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. He is concurrently a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School's Centerfor Civil-Military Relations and editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Prior to joining AEI, he was a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad and a staff advisor for Iran and Iraq in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Read More Read Less