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CV Current Positions Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellow, Empirical Studies of Conflict, Princeton University & Hoover Institution
Research Focus Substate Violence, IR Theory, Methods
EducationPh.D. in Political Science, University of California-Los Angeles, 2009 M.Phil. in International Relations, Oxford University, St. Antony's College, 2002 B.A. in Political Science & History (Summa Cum Laude; GPA=3.92), University of Pennsylvania, 2000
Articles, Chapters & Other Peer Reviewed Publications "Terrorism" in Robert A. Denemark, ed., The International Studies Association Compendium Project (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, forthcoming 2010). "Dying for Nothing? The Political Ineffectiveness of Suicide Terrorism" in Stuart Gottlieb, ed., Debating Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 2009). "The Strategic Influence Deficit of Terrorism," in James Forest, ed., Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in the War of Ideas (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2009). "Correspondence: What Makes Terrorists Tick," International Security, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Spring 2009), pp. 180-202. [Reprinted in forthcoming Harvard-MIT press book on terrorism] [Reprinted in forthcoming Harvard-MIT press book on terrorism] "Correspondence: Does Terrorism Ever Work? The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings," International Security, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Summer 2007), pp. 185-192. [Reprinted in forthcoming Harvard-MIT press book on terrorism] "Why Terrorism Does Not Work," International Security, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 42-78. [Reprinted in Jack Snyder and Karen Mingst, eds., Essential Readings in World Politics, 3rd Edition (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007)]. [Reprinted in forthcoming Harvard-MIT press book on terrorism] "Al-Qaeda's Scorecard: A Progress Report on Al-Qaeda's Objectives," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 29, No. 5 (July-August 2006), pp. 509-529. "Al-Qaeda's Miscommunication War: The Terrorism Paradox," Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Autumn 2005), pp. 529-549. "Are Terrorists Really Rational? The Palestinian Example," Orbis, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Summer 2004), pp. 533-549. "When Rogues Defy Reason: Bashar's Syria," Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 45-56. "A Window of Opportunity for Israel?" Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer 2003), pp. 3-13.
Fellowships and Research (Non-UCLA)Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2009/10 Postdoctoral Fellow, Empirical Studies of Conflict, Princeton University & Hoover Institution, 2009/10 Postdoctoral Fellow, West Point Military Academy, summer 2009 Predoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2008/09 Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005/06 Visiting Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2004 Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003/04
Media Interviews on Terrorism ABC News, Al-Arabiyya, Al-Hurra, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CBS Evening News, CNN (Anderson Cooper), CNN Financial, Fox News, Jerusalem Report, National Public Radio, PBS, Radio Free Europe, Slate, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Wired
Achievements “Why Terrorism Does Not Work” is the most downloaded article in the journal International Security1 The American Political Science Association selected "Are Terrorists Really Rational? The Palestinian Example" as a state of the art political science contribution Commissioned op-ed writer on terrorism for Los Angeles Times Graduated Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Master's Program in National Security, Summer 2009 & 2010
External Reviewer Comparative Political Studies, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Security Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Oxford University Press, World Politics
Selected Invited Presentations Department of Economics, University of Texas at Dallas, February 2010 Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, October 2009 Exporting Terrorism and Exporting Democracy, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 2009 Program on International Security Policy (PISP), University of Chicago, May 2009 Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, May 2009 Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, January 2009 Shaping the Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy, CATO Institute, Washington, D.C., January 2009 & September 2008 The Current Terrorist Enemies of the United States: Prospects for a New U.S. Administration, National Counterterrorism Center, University of Texas at Austin, September 2008 Political Psychology: Then, Now, Hereafter, International Society of Political Psychology, Portland, Oregon, July 2007 Terrorist Organizations: Social Science Research on Terrorism, Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, UC San Diego, May 2007
Field Research West Bank & Jordanian refugee camps, July-August 2004
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