Discussion on The Geopolitical Challenges Facing the New German Government

Join the ACG in London for a discussion with Professor Peter Neumann on, “The Geopolitical Challenges Facing the New German Government”

Dr. Peter Neumann is Professor of Security Studies at the Department of War Studies, and founded the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), which he directed between 2008 and 2018.

In 2017, he also served as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Representatives on Countering Violent Extremism.

Neumann has authored or co-authored seven books, most recently Bluster: Donald Trump’s War on Terror (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2020). Previous books include Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West (IB Tauris, 2016), Old and New Terrorism (Polity Press, 2009), The Strategy of Terrorism (with MLR Smith) (Routledge, 2008), and Britain’s Long War: British Strategy in the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1969-98 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). He is currently working on a research monograph on the ideas and ideologues of the contemporary Far Right.

Neumann has authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles, dealing with different aspects of terrorism and radicalisation, especially ‘homegrown’ radicalisation in Western countries, and serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, The Journal of Strategic Studies, and Democracy and Security. Shorter articles and opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Der Spiegel, The London Review of Books, and the New Scientist.

He established the MA in Terrorism, Security, and Society at the War Studies Department, and served as its Co-Director from 2008 to 2016. He has taught courses on terrorism, counterterrorism, intelligence, radicalisation and counter-radicalisation at King’s College London, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and Sciences Po (Lyon). Neumann holds an MA in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin, and a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. Before becoming an academic, he worked as a radio journalist in Germany.