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Ian Lustick Quotes

American - Historian | 1949 -

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

Strength Change Politics Impossible

International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

Peace Broken People Security Place

For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

Environment Consequences Global

The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.

War Momentum Country Possible See

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

Academic Specialization Relations

Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.

Live Wall Want Build Accept Try

Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

Egypt Scared Muslim Brothers Should

Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.

Political Become Players Religious

If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.

Responsibility Pressure You Too Much

There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.

Good People Problem Lesson Presence

From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.

Networking View Point Of View Point

I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

Think You Terrorism Popcorn Tell

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