Daniel L. Byman | |
|---|---|
Byman in March 2012 | |
| Born | Daniel L. Byman 1967 (age 57–58) |
| Education | Amherst College (BA) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Occupation | Political scientist |
| Employer | Georgetown University |
Daniel L. Byman (born 1967[1]) is an American political scientist. His research focuses on terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Middle East.[2] Byman is currently 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.
Byman is Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State as part of the International Security Advisory Board, a senior fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Foreign Policy Editor for Lawfare.[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 the lead course instructor for Georgetown's massive open online course on Terrorism and Counter Terrorism.
Education
Byman holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7]
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.
Early in his career, he served as an analyst for the U.S. government.[8]
Publications
Byman's 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.[9]
Byman's article in The Atlantic entitled "Left Wing Terrorism is on the Rise" defined terrorism as "attacks or plots by a nonstate actor attempting to achieve a political end and exert a psychological influence on a broad population".[10] With Riley McCabe, Byman analyzed 750 attacks and plots in the United States from 1994 through 2025, finding that 2025 was the first year in which far-left attacks outnumbered far-right attacks.[10][11][12]
Selected bibliography
- Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements. Rand Corporation. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8330-3052-8.
- Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts. JHU Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8018-6804-7.
- Daniel Byman; Matthew Waxman (2002). The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00780-1.
- Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism. Cambridge University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-521-83973-0.
- Daniel Byman; Kenneth M. Pollack (2007). Things fall apart: containing the spillover from an Iraqi civil war. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-1379-1.
- A High Price:The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. Oxford University Press, US. 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-983174-6.[13][14][15]
- "The Wobbling Red Line in Syria", op-ed, New York Times. May 4, 2013. "Empty threats weaken America's credibility", regarding President Obama's "red line" comment on Syria's chemical weapons.
- Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad. Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-064651-6.
- Spreading hate: the global rise of white supremacist terrorism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-753761-9. OCLC 1306536004.
References
- ^ "AUT - Zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ "CSIS Names Daniel Byman Senior Fellow with the Transnational Threats Project". www.csis.org. Center for Strategic and International Studies. 2023-06-28.
- ^ "Daniel Byman". SFS - School of Foreign Service - Georgetown University. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "Daniel Byman | Lawfare". Default. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "Daniel L. Byman". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "Biographies". Georgetown University.
- ^ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ^ "Daniel L. Byman". The Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14.
- ^ Byman, Daniel L. (2015). Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190217266.
- ^ a b Byman, Daniel; McCabe, Riley (2025-09-23). "Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
- ^ Gregorian, Dareh (2025-09-25). "Right-wing terror attacks plunged in 2025, while left-wing attacks ticked up: study". NBC News. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
- ^ Tong, Scott (2025-09-25). "Study finds left-wing political violence on the rise". WBUR. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
- ^ "Books And Arts: Tactics over strategy; Israeli counterterrorism". The Economist. 399 (8739). London: 99. June 25, 2011. ProQuest 873720350.
- ^ Freedman, Lawrence D. (September–October 2011). "Review: A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
- ^ Freilich, Chuck (Winter 2012). "ISRAEL-A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". The Middle East Journal. 66 (1): 176–177. ProQuest 922390715.
External links
- Living people
- American male writers
- Brookings Institution people
- American political scientists
- International security
- Peace and conflict scholars
- Writers on the Middle East
- Scholars of terrorism
- Walsh School of Foreign Service faculty
- Amherst College alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- People from Winona, Minnesota
- 1967 births
- Georgetown University faculty
