Daniel Byman

Daniel L. Byman
Byman in March 2012
Born	Daniel L. Byman 1967 (age 57–58) United States
Education	Amherst College (BA)
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Occupation	Political scientist
Employer	Georgetown University

Daniel L. Byman (born 1967 ^[1] ) is an American political scientist. His research focuses on terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Middle East. ^[2] Byman is currently 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.

Byman is Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State as part of the International Security Advisory Board, a senior fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Foreign Policy Editor for Lawfare. ^[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 the lead course instructor for Georgetown's massive open online course on Terrorism and Counter Terrorism.

Education

Byman holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ^[7]

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.

Early in his career, he served as an analyst for the U.S. government. ^[8]

Publications

Byman's 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. ^[9]

Byman's article in The Atlantic entitled "Left Wing Terrorism is on the Rise" defined terrorism as "attacks or plots by a nonstate actor attempting to achieve a political end and exert a psychological influence on a broad population". ^[10] With Riley McCabe, Byman analyzed 750 attacks and plots in the United States from 1994 through 2025, finding that 2025 was the first year in which far-left attacks outnumbered far-right attacks. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

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.
• Daniel Byman; Matthew Waxman (2002). The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-00780-1.
• Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism . Cambridge University Press. 2005. ISBN   978-0-521-83973-0.
• Daniel Byman; Kenneth M. Pollack (2007). Things fall apart: containing the spillover from an Iraqi civil war. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN   978-0-8157-1379-1.
• A High Price:The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. Oxford University Press, US. 2011. ISBN   978-0-19-983174-6. ^{[13] [14] [15]}
• "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.
• Spreading hate: the global rise of white supremacist terrorism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN   978-0-19-753761-9. OCLC   1306536004.

References

1. "AUT - Zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
2. "CSIS Names Daniel Byman Senior Fellow with the Transnational Threats Project". www.csis.org. Center for Strategic and International Studies. 2023-06-28.
3. "Daniel Byman". SFS - School of Foreign Service - Georgetown University. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
4. "Daniel Byman | Lawfare". Default. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
5. "Daniel L. Byman". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
6. "Biographies". Georgetown University.
7. "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
8. "Daniel L. Byman". The Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14.
9. 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.
10. Byman, Daniel; McCabe, Riley (2025-09-23). "Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
11. Gregorian, Dareh (2025-09-25). "Right-wing terror attacks plunged in 2025, while left-wing attacks ticked up: study". NBC News. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
12. Tong, Scott (2025-09-25). "Study finds left-wing political violence on the rise". WBUR. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
13. "Books And Arts: Tactics over strategy; Israeli counterterrorism". The Economist . 399 (8739). London: 99. June 25, 2011. ProQuest   873720350.
14. Freedman, Lawrence D. (September–October 2011). "Review: A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Foreign Affairs . Retrieved September 30, 2025.
15. Freilich, Chuck (Winter 2012). "ISRAEL-A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". The Middle East Journal . 66 (1): 176–177. ProQuest   922390715.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN