Inside Terrorism
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Later printing. Trade paperback. 296 pages. Illustrations. Author's signed inscription, dated, on title page. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Bruce Hoffman (born 1954) is a political analyst known for his views on terrorism and insurgency. He is the Director of the Center for Security Studies and Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is a specialist in the study of terrorism and counterterrorism and insurgency and counter-insurgency. In 1981, Hoffman joined the RAND Corporation. He left RAND in 1994 when he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. In 1994, he co-founded (with Professor Paul Wilkinson) and was the first director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St. Andrews where he was also Chairman of the Department of International Relations (1994–1998). Hoffman returned to RAND as Director of RAND's Washington Office (1998–2006). Hoffman served as a commissioner on the 9/11 Review Commission, which examined the FBI's ability to counter terrorism, radicalization and cyber crime. He was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006; an adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq in 2004, and an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. Hoffman was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group (2006). More