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Daniel Byman

Daniel Byman

American university professor

Daniel L. Byman (born 1967[1]) is one of the world's leading researchers on terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Middle East.[2] Dr. Byman is a professor in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and Director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program[3] He is a former Vice-Dean of the school.

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Byman advises high-level policymakers and tech companies. He is Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State as part of the International Security Advisory Board. He is also a senior fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank analyzing global issues. He is the Foreign Policy Editor for Lawfare, a "publication dedicated to hard national security choices."[4]

Byman played key roles in the post 9/11 intelligence committees and in many distinguished think tanks. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.[5] He was also the research director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation.[6]

He is also a distinguished teacher and is the lead course instructor for Georgetown's massive open online course on Terrorism and Counter Terrorism.

He writes about a range of topics related to terrorism, insurgency, intelligence, social media, artificial intelligence, Iran, and other Middle East security issues. He is the author or co-author of almost 200 academic and policy articles.

His most recent book is Spreading Hate: The White Power Movement Goes Global (Oxford, 2022)

Career

Byman was a professional staff member on both the 9/11 Commission and the Joint 9/11 Inquiry staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

Byman in November 2011

Early in his career, he served as a political analyst for the U.S. government.[7] He holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Byman's most recent book Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad, published by Oxford University Press in 2019, provides a sweeping history of the jihadist foreign fighter movement. He also authored the book, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know, published by Oxford University Press in 2015.[8]

Publications

Byman's publications include the books A High Price:The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism, The Five Front War: A Better Way to Fight Global Jihad, Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover From an Iraqi Civil War, Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts, and Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism.[9] Byman has written extensively on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, civil and ethnic conflict, and the Middle East. He is a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and The Washington Post, and his work has appeared in a range of scholarly and policy journals.

Selected bibliography

  • Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements. Rand Corporation. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8330-3052-8.
  • Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts. JHU Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8018-6804-7.
  • The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might. w/ Matthew Waxman (co-author). Cambridge University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-00780-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism. Cambridge University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-521-83973-0.
  • Things fall apart: containing the spillover from an Iraqi civil war. w/ Kenneth M. Pollack (co-author). Brookings Institution Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8157-1379-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • A High Price:The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. Oxford University Press, US. 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-983174-6.
  • "The Wobbling Red Line in Syria", op-ed, New York Times. May 4, 2013. "Empty threats weaken America's credibility", regarding President Obama's "red line" comment on Syria's chemical weapons.
  • Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad. Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-064651-6.

References

  1. [1]
    "AUT - Zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  2. [2]
    "CSIS Names Daniel Byman Senior Fellow with the Transnational Threats Project". 2023-06-28. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. [3]
    "Daniel Byman". SFS - School of Foreign Service - Georgetown University. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  4. [4]
    "Daniel Byman | Lawfare". Default. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  5. [5]
    "Daniel L. Byman". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  6. [6]
    "Biographies". Georgetown University.
  7. [7]
    "Daniel L. Byman". The Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14.
  8. [8]
    Byman, Daniel L. (2015). Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190217266.
  9. [9]
    Bio and Books at Amazon.com.


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