Amira Jadoon is an assistant professor at in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. She was previously an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where she was jointly appointed in the Department of Social Sciences and the Combating Terrorism Center. Jadoon specializes in international security, counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, and terrorism with a regional focus on militancy in South and Central Asia, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has published in numerous journals including International Studies Quarterly, Conflict Management & Peace Science, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Interactions, and Terrorism and Political Violence amongst others and has two co-authored forthcoming books on the Islamic State’s Global Provinces (Columbia University Press) and the Islamic State Khorasan (Lynne Rienner). Jadoon is currently on the editorial boards of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), and the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies at the University at Akron. Jadoon holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University at Albany, and a Masters from the London School of Economics. Prior to beginning her career in academia and research, Jadoon worked as a consultant for Deloitte London (U.K.) between 2006-2011. Check out Amira’s website.
List of Recent publications:
- Daniel Milton, Amira Jadoon and Jason Warner. “Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification.” International Studies Quarterly, September 27, 2021
- Victor Asal, Chris Linebarger, Amira Jadoon, and Michael Greig. “Why Some Rebel Organizations Attack Americans.” Defence and Peace Economics, January 24, 2020
- Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed and Andrew Mines, “The Islamic State Threat in Taliban Afghanistan: Tracing the Resurgence of Islamic State Khorasan,” The CTC Sentinel 15 (1), January 2022.
- Amira Jadoon and Abdul Sayed, “The Pakistani Taliban Is Reinventing Itself,” South Asian Voices, November 15, 2021.
