DR. TRICIA BACON
PROFESSOR AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
After a decade as a counter-terrorism analyst at the U.S. Department of State, Dr. Tricia Bacon is now a professor at American University’s School of Public Affairs. She is also a non-resident fellow at the International Centre for Counter-terrorism.and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She serves on the International Counter-Terrorism Review Advisory Board. She is on the Editorial Board for the journals Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Perspectives on Terrorism, and Journal of the Middle East and Africa.
Affiliations:
The Counterinsurgency Dilemma
Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia
Tricia Bacon's book provides the first in-depth analysis of foreign fighters' relations with local insurgent groups and why foreign fighters' influence waxes and wanes over the course of an insurgency.
