David Rapoport

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(academic, “terror expert”)
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BornJanuary 7, 1929
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Founder ofTerrorism and Political Violence
“One of the founding figures of terrorism studies”

Dr David C. Rapoport has been termed “one of the founding figures of terrorism studies”[1]

Background

Rapoport received his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley in 1960, with a dissertation entitled Praetorianism: Government without Consensus.

Career

David Rapoport's first job was at Columbia University, as a research associate at the Institute of War and Peace. Later he was a lecturer at Barnard College. In 1962 he joined the UCLA political science department. Initially a political theorist, in the late 1960s he became interested in "terrorism" and in 1969 taught the first terrorist course in the U.S.[2] He founded Terrorism and Political Violence, which became “one of two journals which has made terrorism into an academic field”.[3]

Publications

His co-authors include Yonah Alexander, Leonard Weinberg and Max Taylor.

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References

  1. John Horgan and Kurt Braddock eds., Terrorism Studies (London: Routledge, 2012) p.1
  2. UCLA Department of Political Science. www.plisci.ucla.edu.
  3. Daryl R. Bullis and Richard D. Irving “Journals Supporting Terrorism Research: Investigation into their Impact on the Social Sciences” College and Research Libraries (74:2) March 2013