Louise Richardson is Executive Dean and senior administrative officer of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a senior lecturer in government at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard and a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. Her academic focus is international security with an emphasis on terrorist movements.
Richardson’s research has been recognized with awards from such organizations as the Ford Foundation, the Milton Fund, the Sloan Foundation, the Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the United States Institute of Peace.
Richrdson authored “What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat” and “When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations in the Suez and Falkland Crises”. She has published a number of journal articles, and reviews on the subject of terrorism, and is the editor of “The Roots of Terrorism”and a coeditor of “Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past”. She is coeditor of the SUNY Press series on terrorism.
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