Dennis Pluchinsky



Dennis Pluchinsky

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Current Positions:

Since retiring from the U.S. State Department in January 2005, he holds the following current positions:

1. Private, part-time consultant on terrorism to a major U.S. multinational company.

2. Recurring lecturer on terrorism at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center and the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center.

3. A member of U.S. Intelligence Community’s Associates Program since 2006.

4. Adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Courses taught include “Radicalization and Recruitment,” “Terrorism, Technology, and Creativity,” and “Al-Qaeda and the Global Jihad Movement.”

5. Adjunct professor at George Mason University. Courses taught include “Terrorism: Theory and Practice,” “The Evolution of U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy,” and “Al-Qaeda and the Global Jihad Movement.”

6. Consultant to InSite Security in New York City.

Government Experience

Since 2006, a participant in the U.S. Intelligence Community’s “associates program” which is designed to provide IC officials with outside viewpoints on key terrorism issues.

From February 1977 - January 2005 - senior intelligence analyst in the Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis, Diplomatic Security Service, U.S. Department of State.

From 2001 - 2004 – responsible for al-Qaeda – its tactical tendencies, targeting patterns, and surveillance methods.

From 1998 - 2001 - division chief for the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific.

From 1977 - 1998 - responsible for monitoring and analyzing terrorism and other security problems in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union.

In 1982 - received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for chairing the Intelligence Sub-Committee of the Dozier Working Group. U.S. Army General James Dozier was kidnapped by Red Brigade terrorists in Italy in 1981.

In 1992 - selected for the Director of Central Intelligence’s Exceptional Intelligence Analyst program. The subject of his research was ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.

In 2004 - selected for the Director of Central Intelligence’s Exceptional Intelligence Officer program. The topic of his research was terrorist surveillance methods, ruses, and disguises.

Teaching Experience: Guest lecturer at the Joint Military Intelligence College, the U.S. Secret Service Training Center, the National Foreign Affairs Training Center, the CIA’s Kent School for Intelligence, and the CIA University.

Has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on terrorism, counter-terrorism, ethnic conflict, and al-Qaeda and the global jihad movement at local universities since 1990:

• Forensic Sciences Department at the George Washington University (1990-2006)

• National Security Studies - Joint Military Intelligence College (Adjunct Faculty, 1993-1994)

• Administration of Justice Department, Government Department, and Bioterrorism program at the George Mason University (2002 – Present)

• Department of Political Science at Mary Washington University (2001-2005)

• Department of Political Science at the James Madison University (1995-2002)

• Defense Security Studies program at Missouri State University (2008)

• National Security Studies and Science, Technology and International Affairs Programs at Georgetown University (2008-Present).

I have taught a course on terrorism for a total of 117 semesters at the above universities over the past 25 years.

The terrorism overview course was the subject of a front page article in the metro section of the Washington Post on March 25, 2004 and on CNN’s “In the Money” program on January 15, 2005, and CNN’s “NewsWatch” with Aaron Brown on April 11, 2005.

Professional Associations

• Contributing editor to the international journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

• Member of the International Scientific Board of the Institute for Research on Contemporary Criminal Problems in Paris, France.

Publications

❑ Book chapter “Political Terrorism in Western Europe: Some Themes and Variations” in Terrorism in Western Europe. (1982)

❑ Article “Middle Eastern Terrorist Activity in Western Europe: A Diagnosis and Prognosis,” Conflict Quarterly, Vol. VI, #3, Summer 1986.

❑ Book chapter “Middle Eastern Terrorist Activity in Western Europe in 1985,” in Contemporary Research on Terrorism. (1987)

❑ Coeditor and chapter in European Terrorism: Today and Tomorrow. (1992).

❑ Article “Middle Eastern Terrorism in Europe: Trends and Prospects,” Terrorism: An International Journal, Volume 14, 1991.

❑ Article “Academic Research on European Terrorist Developments,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 15, 1992.

❑ Co-author of Europe’s Last Red Terrorists: The Fighting Communist Organizations. (1992)

❑ Article “The Red Army Faction: An Obituary,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 16, July 1993.

❑ Article “The Terrorism Puzzle: Missing Pieces and No Boxcover,” Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 9, Spring 1997.

❑ Article “Terrorism in the Former Soviet Union: A Primer, A Puzzle, A Prognosis,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 21, April – June 1998.

❑ Book chapter “Ethnonational Terrorism: Themes and Variations,” FOAA Report on Terrorism (Stockholm: Defense Research Establishment, 1998).

❑ Newspaper Commentary “They Heard It Here and That’s The Trouble,” Sunday Outlook Section, Washington Post, June 16, 2001, p. B3.

❑ Newspaper Commentary “Deadly Puzzle of Terrorism,” OpEd Section, Washington Times, September 11, 2002, p. A19.

❑ Newspaper Commentary “Al-Qaeda: An Identity Crisis?” OpEd Section, Washington Times, April 28, 2003, p. 19

❑ Newspaper Commentary “No Longer Asleep on Terror,” OpEd Section, Washington Times, September 8, 2003.

❑ Book chapter “Ethnic Terrorism and Insurgencies,” in Understanding and Managing Insurgent Movement (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2006).

❑ Book chapter “Typology and Anatomy of Terrorist Operations,” in David Kamien, editor, The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook (N.Y: McGraw-Hill, 2006)

❑ Book chapter “Ethnic Terrorism: Themes and Variations” in The Politics of Terror, edited by Andrew Tan (London: Routledge, 2006).

❑ Article “Evolution of The U.S. Government’s Annual Report on Terrorism: A Personal Commentary, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (January –February 2006, Volume 29, Issue 1), pages 91-98.

❑ Article “The Migration of Terrorist Tactics, Techniques, and Creativity (TTC),” Revue de L’Electricite, Et De L’Electonique (Paris), Number 10, November 2007, pp. 37-43.

❑ Article – “Global Jihadist Recidivism: A Red Flag,” in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, March 2008 issue.

❑ Book chapter, “Ethnic terrorism and insurgencies,” in Albrecht Schnabel and Rohan Gunaratna, editors, Wars From Within: Understanding and Managing Insurgent Movements (London: Imperial College Press, 2015), pp. 33-58.

❑ Anti-American Terrorism – 1960-2015: The Record and Response (World Scientific Publishing, London, forthcoming in 2017).

Education: BA in Sino-Soviet Relations from Madison College in 1973; M.A. in International Affairs (Soviet Concentration) from George Washington University in 1978.

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