Professor
Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Professor Arfi received a Ph.D. in theoretical 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, social science methodologies, philosophy of social theory, deconstruction, and Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory. He is the author of International Change and the Stability of Multi-ethnic States (Indiana University Press, 2005), Linguistic Fuzzy Logic Methods in Social Sciences (Springer-Verlag, 2010), and Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction (Routledge, 2012). He is currently working on two major research projects: a first one develops an approach based on ‘category theory’ rather than ‘set theory’ to social theory, and a second one examines the question of time in the politics of security.