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David Charles Rapoport (born January 7, 1929, Pittsburgh, PA) is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at
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(UCLA) who focuses on the study of terrorism.


Biography

Rapoport received his Ph.D. at
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in 1960. In 1962 he joined the UCLA political science department. In the late 1960s he became interested in terrorism and in 1969 taught the first terrorist course in the U.S. In 1989, he established the journal ''
Terrorism and Political Violence ''Terrorism and Political Violence'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering terrorism and counter-terrorism published by Routledge. It was established in 1989 by David C. Rapoport (University of California, Los Angeles), who remains editor- ...
'' and is its chief editor.,UCLA Department of Political Science
''www.plisci.ucla.edu''.
credited as “one of two journals which has made terrorism into an academic field”. He received 12 Awards from a variety of Foundations including the Social Science Research Council,
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, Fulbright,
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,
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and Harry Frank Guggenheim. After retiring in 1995, he founded the Center for the Study of Religion UCLA and became the Chair of the Interdepartmental Religion Major 1995-7. He continued teaching until 2012, received the UCLA Emeritus Distinguished Dickson Award.


Academic publications

Rapoport wrote and edited six books, 50 academic articles and 12 op-ed newspaper columns. Ten academic publications were republished in Spanish, French and German. Two of his academic articles were written for Encyclopedias, and a third will be published in 2017. He wrote a series of articles on ancient religious traditions, including their interaction with terrorism. He also wrote a number of essays on apocalyptic movements in the modern world, especially in Christianity. Rapaport's 1999 article “Terrorism” in the ''Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict'' contained an analysis of the history of modern global rebel terror. He argues that political concerns and technological development produced the new iterations of terrorism in the form of "waves". The "new terrorism" began in the 1880s and has produced four different overlapping waves, the Anarchist, Anti-Colonial, New Left and Religious. The argument drew little attention until Rapoport published a second article on the subject immediately after the 9/11 attack, “The Fourth Wave: September 11 in the History of Terrorism” in Current History. The aim was to demonstrate that although the tragedy “created a resolve... to end terror everywhere”, the history of modern global terror did not inspire much confidence that this resolve would succeed. The article was widely influential in the field of terrorism studies.Tom Parker and Nick Sitter, “The Four Horsemen of Terrorism: It’s Not Waves, It’s Strains” Terrorism and Political Violence 28. 2 April 2016 pp. 197-98. The article was “one of the most influential articles ever written in the field of terrorism studies and referenced in numerous volumes. To this day it provides the basic conceptual framework for academic courses taught around the world on this subject.”


Books

* ''Terrorism: Critical Concepts in Political Science'' 4 vols.(New York: Routledge, 2006) *''Inside Terrorist Organizations'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) *''The Democratic Experience and Political Violence'' (Portland, OR: Frank. Cass, 2001) (with Leonard Weinberg) *''The Morality of Terrorism: Religious and Secular Justifications'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989) with Yonah Alexander 2nd Edition ISBN 0 -231-06753-4 *''The Rationalization of Terrorism'' (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1982 with Yonah Alexander *''Assassination and Terrorism'' (Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 1971) 3 editions


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rapoport, David C. 1929 births Living people American political scientists University of California, Los Angeles faculty