During my academic career, I engaged in an extensive study of issues related to terrorism and political violence, security policy and politics (including the nexus of security and climate change), politics and extremism of the Far Right in Israel, Europe, and the US, Middle Eastern Politics, and the applicability of Social Network Analysis to the study of political violence.

 

Over the years, my research agenda evolved along two main paths. The first involved extensive exploration of the ways polities may respond to terrorism or other manifestations of political violence. The second path endeavors to present theoretical and analytical frameworks for explaining some of the current and prominent features of political violence, such as religious terrorism, suicide terrorism, political assassinations, Far-Right violence, violent extremist misogyny, and the emergence of communal social networks that are drawn to political violence.

 

In the last couple of years, I focused mainly on manifestations of domestic extremism and terrorism in the US, the impact of climatic events on the facilitation of political violence and radicalization, how electoral processes are linked to political violence, and the proliferation of violent extremist misogyny.  

 

 

 

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