Previously, Dr. Moghadam Was a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's International Security

Assaf Moghadam is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Senior Associate at the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. Dr. Moghadam teaches courses on terrorism, advanced terrorism, and international relations and directs the CTC's Shia Militancy Program. He is also an Associate with the International Security Program's Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is the author of two books, The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and The Roots of Terrorism (New York: Chelsea House, 2006), as well as a monograph, A Global Resurgence of Religion? (Cambridge, Mass.: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2003).

Previously, Dr. Moghadam was a research fellow at the Belfer Center's International Security Program (2004–2006, 2007–2009) and a fellow in national security at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (2006–2007) at Harvard University. His research interests are the nature and causes of terrorism and political violence, suicide attacks, Al Qaeda and the global jihad, jihadist ideology, Shia militancy, and the Middle East. He is currently completing work on two forthcoming edited volumes, Fault Lines of Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic, and Ideological Fissures Within and Around Al Qaeda (co-edited with Brian Fishman) and Shia Militancy after 1979.

Dr. Moghadam has lectured widely on terrorism, suicide attacks, and jihadism before various audiences in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in International Security, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA Journal), CTC Sentinel, Boston Globe, and International Herald Tribune. His book reviews have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Transcultural Psychiatry, and Democracy and Security, among other journals. He serves on the editorial board of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

Dr. Moghadam holds a Ph.D. in international relations and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a B.A. in political science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.