Dr. Michael Radu is am FPRI Senior Fellow and Co-Chairman of its Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. He joined FPRI in 1983, and has since studied terrorist and insurgent groups worldwide. Various agencies of the U.S. and other governments have called upon his expertise, and news media around the world regularly use him as an expert source, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, and Associated Press.
Dr. Radu’s books include Dangerous Neighborhood: Contemporary Issues in Turkey’s Foreign Relations (Transaction, 2002), Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship: Place, Time and Ideology in Global Perspective (Transaction, 2006), and Europe’s Ghost: Tolerance, Jihadism and Their Consequences (forthcoming, Encounter). He was a National Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; and he has monitored elections in Cambodia, Romania, Peru, and Guatemala. He received his Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University.