Daniel Byman

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Daniel L. Byman
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Byman in March 2012
Born
Daniel L. Byman

1967 (age 5657)
Other namesDaniel Byman
Education Amherst College (BA)
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Occupation Professor
Employer Georgetown University

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 policy makers 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.

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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

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