Daniel Byman
Professor
Daniel Byman is a professor in the School of Foreign Service with a concurrent appointment with the Department of Government and the director of the Security Studies Program. Professor Byman is also a senior fellow in the Transnational Threats Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is an editor at Lawfare and served as a member of the Department of State's International Security Advisory Board. Dr. Byman was Vice Dean of the SFS undergraduate program from 2015 until 2020 and before that as director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and Center for Security Studies from 2005 until 2010. He also led a Georgetown team in teaching a "Massive Open Online Course" (MOOC) on terrorism and counterterrorism for EdX. From 2002 to 2004 he served as a Professional Staff Member with the 9/11 Commission and with the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Before joining the Inquiry Staff he was the Research Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation. Previous to this, Professor Byman worked as an analyst on the Middle East for the U.S. government. His latest book is Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism (Oxford, 2022). He is also the author of Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad (Oxford, 2019); Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2015); A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism (Oxford, 2011); The Five Front War: The Better Way to Fight Global Jihad (Wiley, 2007); Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism (Cambridge, 2005); Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflict (Johns Hopkins, 2002); and co-author of Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from the Iraqi Civil War (Brookings, 2007) and The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might (Cambridge, 2002). Professor Byman has also written extensively on a range of topics related to terrorism, international security, civil and ethnic conflict, and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, as well as academic journals including World Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and International Security. Follow Professor Byman on X @dbyman