Yonah Alexander (born 25 December 1931) is an author and lecturer who specializes in the study of

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 ...

Educational background

Alexander received his PhD from Columbia University, an MA from the University of Chicago, and his BA from Roosevelt University of Chicago.

Academic journals

Alexander has founded and edited the journals ''Terrorism An International Journal'' in 1977,Schmid p153 ''International Journal on Minorities and Group Rights''Alexander p V

Biodefense

Yonah also serves as a member of the

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, formerly known as the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, is an organization of former high-ranking government officials that analyzes US capabilities and capacity to defend against biological threats. A ...

, a group that encourages and advocates changes to government policy to strengthen national

biodefense Biodefense refers to measures to restore biosecurity to a group of organisms who are, or may be, subject to biological threats or infectious diseases. Biodefense is frequently discussed in the context of biowar or bioterrorism, and is generall ...

. In order to address biological threats facing the nation, the Commission created a 33 step initiative for the U.S. Government to implement. Headed by former Senator

Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; born February 24, 1942) is an American politician, lobbyist, and attorney who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party (Uni ...

and former Governor

Tom Ridge Thomas Joseph Ridge (born August 26, 1945) is an American politician and author who served as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003, and the first United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. ...

, the Commission assembled in 2014 in Washington D.C. for four meetings concerning current biodefense programs and concluded that the federal government had little to no defense mechanisms in case of a biological event. The Commission report, ''The National Blueprint for Biodefense'', proposes a string of solutions and recommendations for the U.S. Government to take, including items such as giving the Vice President authority over biodefense responsibilities and merging the entire biodefense budget. These solutions represent the Commission's call to action in order to increase awareness and activity for pandemic related issues.

Published works

* ''Combating terrorism: strategies of ten countries''

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31 August 2002. * ''Europe's red terrorists: the fighting communist organizations''

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1 October 1992. * ''The New Iranian Leadership: Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Ambition, and the Middle East'' Praeger 30 December 2007. * ''Turkey: Terrorism, Civil Rights, and the European Union''

Notes

References

* Schmid, lex Peter, Jongman, A. J. ''Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature'' Transaction Revised edition. 28 February 2005. * Alexander Yonah, Swetnam Michael S.''Usama Bin Laden's "Al-Qaida": Profile of a Terrorist Network'' Transnational Publishers 1 April 2001.

External links

* Terrorism theorists Living people Columbia University alumni University of Chicago alumni Roosevelt University alumni 1931 births {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub