Dr. Michael Radu is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and Co-Chairman of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. He has spent the last 20 years at FPRI studying terrorist and insurgent groups worldwide. Various agencies of the U.S. government have called upon his expertise from time to time, and news media around the world regularly use him as an expert source, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, and Associated Press.
Dr. Radu is the author or editor of eight books on international affairs, including most recently Dangerous Neighborhood: Contemporary Issues in Turkey’s Foreign Relations (Transaction, 2002). He was a National Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; and he has monitored elections in Cambodia, Romania, Peru, and Guatemala. He received his Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University.