Badredine Arfi
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Email: barfi@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 philosophy of social theory, discourse theory, deconstruction, Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory, theories of international relations, international security, Islam and politics, game theory, 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 finishing two books, one on Linguistic Fuzzy Logic Methods in Social Sciences and a second one on Deconstruction and Lacan's Theory of Discourse: Reconfiguration onto a General Economy of Play. He is also involved in a new project on Islam, Secularism, and Politics: Deconstruction and Reconfiguration.
