Expertise: Terrorism, counter terrorism, political extremism

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Senior Fellow

Ami Pedahzur received his PhD in Political Science from the University in Haifa, Israel where he also taught until 2004. From 2000 to 2004 he served at the University of Haifa as a Senior Fellow at the National Security Studies Center. During this period he was a member of a ‘Terrorism Research Project’ team. Some of the databases which were established by the team are available to download.

Pedahzur arrived at the University of Texas in 2004 as a Donald D. Harrington fellow and since 2005 has served as an associate professor at the Departments of Government and Middle Eastern Studies.  His main fields of interest are terrorism, counter terrorism and political extremism.   He serves as associate editor of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Pedahzur’s  latest book Suicide Terrorism was published  in 2005. His new book The Israeli Counterterrorism Experience will be published in 2008.

Currently  he is working on two research projects (with Arie Perliger). The first focuses on the root causes of Jewish Terrorism in Israel and the second looks at the various evolutionary modes of Islamic terrorism.

Selected Research:

• Political Parties and Terrorist Groups 2nd ed., with Leonard Weinberg and Arie Perliger, Routledge, 2008
• "I Versus We: Collective and Individual Factors of Reserve Service Motivation during War and Peace," Armed Forces and Society, July 2008
• "Choosing Violence or Nonviolence: Attractiveness and Unattractiveness in Strategic Decision-Making," with Susanne Martin, Arie Perliger, and Leonard Weinberg, unpublished manuscript presented in at the International Studies Association's 49th Annual Convention, Mar/Apr 2008
• Between Terrorism and Civil War: The al-Aqsa Intifada, (edited by) with Clive Jones, Routledge, 2007 
• "Politics of God or Politics of Man? The Role of Religion and Deprivation in Predicting Support for Political Violence in Israel," Political Studies, Oct 2007