MonTREP Faculty and Staff Bios

 

Jeffrey M. Bale, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Bale has studied terrorist and extremist groups of various kinds for over two decades, and is currently Director of MonTREP and an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at MIIS. He obtained his B.A. in Middle Eastern and Central Asian history at the University of Michigan, his M.A. in social movements and political sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in modern European history at Berkeley. He has taught at Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of California at Irvine, and was the recipient of postdoctoral fellowships from the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia, the Office of Scholarly Programs at the Library of Congress, and the Center for German and European Studies at Berkeley. He has published numerous articles on terrorism, right-wing extremism, religious cults, and covert operations, is in the process of updating a huge book manuscript dealing with neo-fascist terrorist networks in Europe, and is currently preparing monographic studies on a) Islamist networks operating in Europe and North America, and b) the potential for collaboration between Western left- and right-wing radicals and Islamist terrorists. At the Monterey Institute, he teaches introductory level and seminar courses on terrorism, political and religious extremism, and militant Islamic organizations.

 

Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D

 

Senior Researcher, MonTREP, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management (GSIPM), at MIIS.

Dr. Hahn is a specialist in terrorism and comparative and international politics in Russia and the former Soviet Union.  He is the author of two well-received books Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007) and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction Publishers, 2002) and numerous articles in academic journals and other English and Russian language print and electronic media. Dr. Hahn has taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.  He has also has been a research scholar at the Kennan Institute and the Hoover Institution.

 

Sharad Joshi, Ph.D

Research Associate, MonTREP, and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management (GSIPM), at MIIS.