Biografías de los colaboradores
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Shmuel Bar is Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel and on the steering team of the annual 'Herzliya Confer-ence.' He has also been adjunct Sénior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Distinguished Koret Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dr. Bar served for thirty years in the Israeli government, first in the IDF Intelligence and then in the Office of the Prime Minister. Since the mid 1980's he specialized in Jordanian, Palestinian, Iranian and Syrian af-fairs, and in the ideological and operational aspects of the Jihadi-Salafi movement that later evolved into al-Qaeda. During this period he also served in various sénior positions in Israel and abroad. Dr. Bar is also foun-der and CEO of IntuView Ltd — an Israeli based software company dealing in text mining and hermeneutic summarization of texts in Arabic, Urdu and other languages of the Muslim world. Since 2002, Dr. Bar has headed re-search projects on issues such as Iranian defense doctrine, negotiating be-havior and susceptibility to signaling, command and control culture in the Middle East, deterrence of térrorism, the influence of religión on deterrence. He has also published extensively on issues relating to the Middle East. Some of his publications include: "The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordán"; "Warrant for Terror: Contemporary Fatwas and the Duty of Jihad"; "Es-tablishment Ulama and Radicalism in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordán"; "Deterring Terrorists — What Israel has Learned", "Iranian Defense Doctrine and Decisión Making Mechanism", "Bashar's Syria: The Regime and its Strategic Worldview". Dr. Bar is currently working on a book: "Knowing Good and Evil — Moral Narratives in Islam and the Theology of Terrorism." Sbar@intuview.com
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Huw Bennett is a lecturer in International Politics and Intelligence Studies at Aberystwyth University. He previously taught for King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. His research focuses on British counter-insurgency since 1945, and has been published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Twentieth Century British History, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and Defense and Security Analysis. His monograph, Fighting the Mau Mau: the British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. hubl@aber.ac.uk
Leo Blanken is an assistant professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His current research focuses on the impact of imperfect...
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