Yonah Alexander

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"Professor Yonah Alexander, PhD, serves as a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and Director of its International Center for Terrorism Studies. He is also a member of the Board of Regents. Concurrently, he is Director of the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies and Co-Director of the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies. Both are consortia of universities and think tanks throughout the world. In addition, Professor Alexander directed the Terrorism Studies program (George Washington University) and the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism (State University of New York), totaling 35 years of service...

"His research experience includes such appointments as: Research Professor of International Affairs and Visiting Professor of Law, The George Washington University; Director, "Terrorism, Gray Area and Low Level Conflict," U.S. Global Strategy Council; Senior Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies in Justice, School of Law, The American University; Research Associate, School of Journalism, Columbia University; Senior Staff Member, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University; Director, Institute for Studies in International Terrorism, State University of New York; and Fellow, Institute of Social Behavior Pathology, The University of Chicago. He is a member, International Institute of Strategic Studies (London).

"Dr. Alexander is founder and editor-in-chief of three international, academic journals: Terrorism: An International Journal, International Journal on Minorities and Group Rights and Political Communication and Persuasion: An International Journal. Since 2010, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of PfP Review, a new journal under the auspices of NATO. He also has published over 95 books including Terrorists in Our Midst: Combating Foreign Affinity Terrorism in America, Terrorism on the High Seas: From Piracy to Strategic Challenge, Evolution of U.S. Counterterrorism Policy (three volumes), Turkey: Terrorism, Civil Rights, and the European Union, The New Iranian Leadership: Terrorism, Nuclear Ambition, and the Middle East Conflict, and Counterterrorism Strategies: Success and Failures of Six Nations. His works were translated into more than two dozen languages. Professor Alexander’s personal papers and collection on terrorism are housed at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University."

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