Michael Stohl (born 1947)
[Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008] is Professor and a former Chair of the Department of Communication at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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.
He researches organizational and political communication with special focus on
terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
,
human rights
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and
global relations.
[ He has been a guest commentator on ]National Public Radio
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, NBC
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, and CBS
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for stories on terrorism and human rights.[ He has been critical of the ]George W. Bush administration
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's understanding of terrorism networks during the War on Terrorism
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.
Academic career
Stohl was born in Brooklyn, New York
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. He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo
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(A.B., 1969); and Northwestern University
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Charte ...
(M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1974).[
He taught political science at Kendall College in ]Evanston, Illinois
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in the summer 1971.[ He was a visiting research associate and later acting research administrator as the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research in ]London, England
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from 1971-72.[ He began teaching at ]Purdue University
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in West Lafayette, Indiana
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in 1972, becoming a full professor in 1985.[ He was a visiting researcher on terrorism at the ]University of Leiden
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in 1989 and 1985.[
He was a member of the Search for Common Ground sponsored United States-Soviet Union Task Force on International Terrorism which met in ]Moscow
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and Santa Monica, California
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in January and September 1989.[
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Awards
Stohl received a Fulbright Fellowship
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for International Education Administrators in Japan and Korea
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in 1989.[ He was given a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to lecture at the University of Canterbury in ]Christchurch
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, New Zealand in 1983. In 2009 he was appointed to be the first Erskine Fellow in the department of political science at the University of Canterbury.[ During his tenure at Purdue he completed five Indianapolis Half-Marathons.
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Bibliography
* War and Domestic Political Violence: The American Capacity for Repression and Reaction, Sage Publications, 1976.
*(Editor and contributor) The Politics of Terrorism, Dekker, 1979, 3rd revised edition, 1988.
*(Editor with Harry R. Targ, and contributor) The Global Political Economy in the 1980s, Schenkman, 1982.
*(Editor with George Lopez, and contributor) The State as Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression, Greenwood Press, 1984.
*(Editor with Lopez, and contributor) Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research, Greenwood Press, 1986.
*(Editor with Lopez, and contributor) Redemocratization and Liberalization in Latin America, Greenwood Press, 1987.
*(Editor with Lopez) Development, Dependence and State Repression, Greenwood Press, 1987.
*(Editor with Lopez) The Foreign Policy of Terror, Greenwood Press, 1987.
*Editor with Robert Slater, and contributor) Current Perspectives on International Terrorism, St. Martin's, 1987.
*(Collaborator with Alex P. Schmid and Albert J. Jongman) Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature, North-Holland Pub. Co., 1988.
*(Co-editor with Chadwick Alger) A Just Peace Through Transformation: Cultural, Economic, and Political Foundations for Change: Proceedings of the International Peace Research Association, Eleventh General Conference, Westview Press, 1988.
*(Co-editor with George A. Lopez) Terrible Beyond Endurance?: The Foreign Policy of State Terrorism, Greenwood Press, 1988.
*(Co-editor with George A. Lopez) International Relations: Contemporary Theory and Practice, CQ Press, 1989.
References
External links
Faculty homepage
Curriculum Vitae
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1947 births
Living people
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Purdue University faculty
University at Buffalo alumni
Northwestern University alumni