Barak Mendelsohn

Senior Fellow
Center on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security

Barak Mendelsohn, an assistant professor of political science at Haverford College, is a Senior Fellow at FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security.

He is author of Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and International Cooperation in the War on Terrorism (University of Chicago Press, 2009). He teaches courses at Haverford on Jihadi movements and on the Middle East. He served in the Israeli army for five years and received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. Prior to his appointmnt he spoke for FPRI on “Al Qaeda’s Palestinian Dilemma” and subsequently published an essay on the subject in the journal Survival (August–September 2009), published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (London).

His “Global Terrorism Resource Database” can be found at http://people.haverford.edu/bmendels/.

Barak Mendelsohn
Center on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security
Foreign Policy Research Institute
1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610
Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA

FPRI Wishes to Thank its 2011 Partners
Who help make all our programs possible.

On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

FPRI 2011 Annual Dinner

Video of keynote address
Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami

Special Partner Event
Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

Special Partner Event
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
Peter Bergen

FPRI Dinner Booklet and Annual report