Ami Pedahzur

I am a professor at the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. 

My main fields of interest are terrorism, political radicalism, special-forces (especially the IDF) and Israel. 

I received my PhD in political science from the University of Haifa in 1999 and started teaching at the same university soon afterwards. 

I first came to Texas as a Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow in 2004 and joined the faculty of the Department of Government a year later.

Since the early stages of my career I was interested in the Israeli radical right and in the State’s response to it. 

Later on I was drawn to studying the causes for terrorism in general and particularly in Israel. At the same time I developed interest in the effectiveness of various counterterrorism policies.

I serve as an associate editor of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism as well as member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces & Society, Terrorism and Political Violence and Civil Wars. 

You can find more about me and become my friend in my academia.edu and facebook pages.