Graig Klein is an Assistant Professor in Terrorism and Political Violence at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. His research explores the instrumentality of political violence and how dissident–government interactions affect tactical and strategic evolution, conflict processes, and international and national security – primarily protests and terrorism. He leads the ERC-funded project TERGAP, which focuses on how non-state actors adapt their violent tactics in response to government behaviour and new opportunities to recruit both non-violent and violent activists. He teaches in the Crisis and Security Master’s Programme.

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Graig Klein is an Assistant Professor in Terrorism and Political Violence at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. His research explores the instrumentality of political violence and how dissident–government interactions affect tactical and strategic evolution, conflict processes, and international and national security – primarily protests and terrorism. He leads the ERC-funded project TERGAP, focusing on how non-state actors adapt their violent tactics in response to government behaviour and new opportunities to recruit both non-violent and violent activists. He teaches in the Crisis and Security Master’s Programme.

Graig is currently leading an ERC Starting Grant project, TERGAP, collecting new counterterrorism data to test theories of terrorist group strategic decision-making and adaptive violence. He is also Co-Investigator on a Google-funded project exploring extremist and terrorist use of artificial intelligence (AI) and potential counter-measures. His research has been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, presented to senior government and security leadership, including NATO, U.S. Northern Command, and NORAD, and he has been an invited guest multiple times on BBC Radio and BBC World News. You can learn more about Graig’s research on his website (www.graigklein.com).

Prior to joining ISGA, Graig was an Assistant Professor of Security Studies at New Jersey City University, where he helped establish his department as an Intelligence Community Centre for Academic Excellence, funded by a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency grant. The grant also funded the development of the FOCUSdata Project, designed to analyse how a country’s official media and foreign ministry communications interact with kinetic actions. Graig has also served as an Academic Principal Investigator for the World Bank. He has studied and conducted fieldwork in Egypt and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Graig holds a PhD in Political Science from Binghamton University and an MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University.

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