Mia Bloom

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Mia Mellissa Bloom (1968–) is the author of a book entitled Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror.

She was previously an assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati and consulted for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of Counter Terrorism. She is currently an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

With research specialties in ethnic conflicts, rape in war, and child soldiers, Bloom is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Bloom has a PhD in political science from Columbia University, a Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelors from McGill University in Russian and Middle East Studies. She completed a year in the overseas program at Tel Aviv University and a semester at the Arab Language Institute (ALI) at the American University of Cairo. She has held research or teaching appointments at Rutgers, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities. She regularly appears on Fox News, CNN, CSPAN, and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer for PBS, Ted Koppel for Nightline, and Jesse Pearson for MTV.

She is currently completing articles on child terrorists, the radicalization of Muslims in Europe, and the 1990 "proxy bombing" campaign in Northern Ireland.

[edit] Publications

  • Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror. NY: Columbia University Press, 2005.
  • Saudi’s Grim Export: Suicide Bombers. LA Times, Op Ed, July 17, 2005.
  • Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Public Support, Market Share and Outbidding. Political Science Quarterly, volume 119 number 1, Spring 2004, 61-88.
  • Ethnic Conflict, State Terror and Suicide Bombing in Sri Lanka. Civil Wars, Frank Cass, (Volume 6 No. 2, Spring 2003), 54-84.
  • In the Belly of the Tigers World Press Review, available online
  • Atrocities and Armed Conflict: State Consolidation in Israel 1948-1956, Journal of Conflict, Security, and Development. Oxford University Press. (vol.3 December 2001), 55-78.

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