Field Guide
From Question to Evidence
A practical guide to framing questions, mapping sources, evaluating evidence, and documenting a defensible research process.
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Understanding political violence requires moving beyond headlines to the networks, ideologies, and strategic calculations that drive it.
Over three decades I have studied terrorism, religious and ethno-nationalist extremism, and warfare. This work has taken me from archives to field interviews and data gathering across three continents.
Before returning to Israel I spent two decades at the University of Texas at Austin, where my interest in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of security studies and computational methods evolved. My books have been published by Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Polity Press, and Routledge.
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New research, methods, and writing.
Field Guide
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