Richard E. Rubenstein (born February 24, 1938) is an author and University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University, holding degrees from Harvard College, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard Law School. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Rubenstein was an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC, and served as assistant director of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs in Chicago before becoming associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University (1970-79), professor of law at Antioch Law School (1979-87) where he taught, inter alia, Corporate Law, and university professor of conflict resolution and public affairs at George Mason University (1987-date). He is a faculty member and former director of George Mason's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, the nation's oldest and largest conflict studies program.
Since the 1970s he has been active in movements for peace, racial equality, and social justice. His forthcoming book, to be published in 2010 by Bloomsbury Press, is Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Go To War.
Rebels in Eden: Mass Political Violence in America. Little, Brown. 1970. (Also published in the UK).
Left Turn: Origins of the Next American Revolution. Little, Brown. 1973. (Also published in the UK).
Alchemists of Revolution: Terrorism in the Modern World. Basic Books. 1987. ISBN 0465000959.
Comrade Valentine: The True Story of Azef the Spy. Harcourt. 1994. ISBN 0151528950. (Also published in Poland).
When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome. Harcourt. 2000. (Also published in France, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, and Japan).
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages. Harcourt. 2003. ISBN 0151007209. (Also published in Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Nationalist China, and Greece).
Thus Saith the Lord: The Revolutionary Moral Vision of Isaiah and Jeremiah. Harcourt. 2006. ISBN 100151012199