Peter Neumann
Peter Neumann is director at the Centre for Defence Studies at King’s College London. He is Editor of terrorism.openDemocracy.net.[1]
Background
- Prior to this appointment, he was Academic Director of the Club de Madrid's International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security (the largest ever gathering of terrorism and security experts) in Madrid in March 2005, and served as senior advisor to the National Policy Forum on Terrorism, Security and America's Purpose in the United States in 2005. He also held an Early Career Fellowship of the Leverhulme Trust. He is a member of the Club de Madrid's expert advisory council, as well as of the editorial boards of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Democracy and Security. Dr Neumann studied in Berlin, Belfast and London. He received an MA in political science from the Free University of Berlin, and a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. Before becoming an academic, he worked as a radio journalist in Germany.
- ===Current Research===
Dr Neumann currently works on a book which looks at how globalisation has transformed terrorism. He is also leading a number of research projects that examine the radicalisation of young Muslims in Europe. Other research interests include terrorist strategy, negotiations, as well as foreign policy in the 'war on terror'.
- ===Select Publications===
- Dr Neumann is the co-author of The Strategy of Terrorism, which will be published by Routledge in late 2007 (with MLR Smith). Previous publications include Britain's Long War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), a comprehensive assessment of British strategy in the Northern Ireland conflict, as well as numerous articles on terrorism and counter-terrorism in journals like Survival, Foreign Affairs, Orbis, and Terrorism and Political Violence. Shorter analyses have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Prospect Magazine and other publications.
- Dr Neumann is the editor of the Club de Madrid series on Democracy and Terrorism, which is published by Routledge. His German language publications include a history of the IRA (IRA: Langer Weg zum Frieden, EVA, 1999) and a biography of Al Gore (Al Gore: Eine Biographie, DVA, 2000).[2]
Affiliations
- OpenDemocracy.net, author
