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Max Abrahms speaking at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Peace Conference in June 2023

Max Abrahms is an American political scientist specializing in international security. He is regarded as an expert in terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, great power competition, war, and the international relations of the Middle East. He is among the top-cited scholars on Google Scholar in the field of "terrorism studies." He is currently an associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

He has held fellowships and other research positions with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University, the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, the Human Security Centre in London, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, Center for the Study of Terrorism in Rome, the Belfer Center at Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations and consults with government agencies about the contemporary extremism landscape. He regularly writes about international security issues for the media and has fielded interviews from the Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Newsweek, the New York Times, USA Today, Voice of America, and the Washington Post, among others.

Selected Bibliography

  • Why Terrorism Does Not Work
  • What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy
  • Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History
  • Lumpers versus Splitters: A Pivotal Battle in the Field of Terrorism Studies
  • Leadership Matters: The Effects of Targeted Killings on Militant Group Tactics

References

  1. ^ https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/max-abrahms/
  2. ^ https://iowarenewablefuelssummit.org/dr-max-abrahm/
  3. ^ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k4HOzO0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
  4. Max Abrahms, Why Terrorism Does Not Work, International Security, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Fall 2006), pg. 74
  5. Abrahms, Max (2008). "What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy". International Security. 32 (4): 78–105. doi:10.1162/isec.2008.32.4.78. ISSN 1531-4804. JSTOR 30129792. S2CID 57561190.
  6. Abrahms, Max (2018). Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192539441.
  7. Abrahms, Max. Lumpers versus Splitters: A Pivotal Battle in the Field of Terrorism Studies. Cato.
  8. Abrahms, Max; Mierau, Jochen (2017-09-03). "Leadership Matters: The Effects of Targeted Killings on Militant Group Tactics". Terrorism and Political Violence. 29 (5): 830–851. doi:10.1080/09546553.2015.1069671. ISSN 0954-6553. S2CID 146507596.


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