Michael Stohl
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Michael Stohl (b. 1947 in Brooklyn, New York)[1] is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] He researches organizational and political communication with special focus on terrorism, human rights and global relations.[2] He has been a guest commentator on National Public Radio, NBC, and CBS for stories on terrorism and human rights.[2] Noam Chomsky, in discussing the September 11th attacks, cites his expertise.[3] He has been critical of the George W. Bush administration's understanding of terrorism networks during the war on terrorism.[4]
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[edit] Academic career
He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo (A.B., 1969); and Northwestern University (M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1974).[1]
He taught political science at Kendall College in Evanston, Illinois in the summer 1971.[1] He was a visiting research associate and later acting research administrator as the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research in London, England from 1971-72.[1] He began teaching at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in 1972, becoming a full professor in 1985.[1] He was a visiting researcher on terrorism at the State University of Leiden, The Netherlands in 1989 and 1985.[2]
He was a member of the Search for Common Ground sponsored United States-Soviet Union Task Force on International Terrorism which met in Moscow and Santa Monica, California in January and September 1989.[2]
[edit] Awards
Stohl received a Fulbright Fellowship for International Education Administrators in Japan and Korea in 1989.[2] He was given a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to lecture at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1983.[2]
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[edit] Bibliography
- War and Domestic Political Violence: The American Capacity for Repression and Reaction, Sage Publications, 1976.
- (Editor and contributor) The Politics of Terrorism, Dekker, 1979, 3rd revised edition, 1988.
- (Editor with Harry R. Targ, and contributor) The Global Political Economy in the 1980s, Schenkman, 1982.
- (Editor with George Lopez, and contributor) The State as Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression, Greenwood Press, 1984.
- (Editor with Lopez, and contributor) Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research, Greenwood Press, 1986.
- (Editor with Lopez, and contributor) Redemocratization and Liberalization in Latin America, Greenwood Press, 1987.
- (Editor with Lopez) Development, Dependence and State Repression, Greenwood Press, 1987.
- (Editor with Lopez) The Foreign Policy of Terror, Greenwood Press, 1987.
- Editor with Robert Slater, and contributor) Current Perspectives on International Terrorism, St. Martin's, 1987.
- (Collaborator with Alex P. Schmid and Albert J. Jongman) Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature, North-Holland Pub. Co., 1988.
- (Co-editor with Chadwick Alger) A Just Peace Through Transformation: Cultural, Economic, and Political Foundations for Change: Proceedings of the International Peace Research Association, Eleventh General Conference, Westview Press, 1988.
- (Co-editor with George A. Lopez) Terrible Beyond Endurance?: The Foreign Policy of State Terrorism, Greenwood Press, 1988.
- (Co-editor with George A. Lopez) International Relations: Contemporary Theory and Practice, CQ Press, 1989.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g Michael Stohl, Research Affiliate. Center for Information Technology & Socity.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (2001). 9-11 16. Seven Stories Press.
- ^ Experts say Bush Administration Misunderstands Terror Networks: Dangerous Assumptions Being Made About al-Qaeda Communication and Organization. Blackwell Publishing (2007-03-22).
