CoolTech Club with Dr. Boaz Ganor: Terror.Net : The current trends of the global jihadi terrorism and the use of the internet

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December 16,2008

Dr. Boaz Ganor is the Associate Dean of the Lauder School of Government, the founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), and the head of the Homeland Security Studies Programs at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel. He is also the founder and Chairman of the International Academic Counter Terrorism Community (ICTAC).

At Present Dr. Ganor is a Koret Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and teaching graduate counter terrorism courses at Stanford University - International Relations program, as well as graduate courses at Goldman public policy school at UC Berkeley.

Dr. Ganor has published numerous articles on terrorism and counter-terrorism. His latest book, The Counter-Terrorism Puzzle – A guide for decision makers (Transaction Publishers, 2005), is being used as a text book in many universities worldwide. He is also editor of Post Modern Terrorism, (Transaction Publishers, 2006) and co-editor of Trends in International Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (2007), and of Hypermedia Seduction for Terrorist Recruiting (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series: Human and Societal Dynamics, Volume 25, 2007).

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