Mary Beth Altier: Disengagement from Terrorism - a podcast by John F. Morrison

Mary Beth Altier is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Dr. Altier received her PhD from Princeton University and then worked as a postdoc on a project on terrorist disengagement, re-engagement, and recidivism at the Pennsylvania State University. She’s also conducted postdoctoral research on the stability of democracies formed during different wartime settings. Dr. Altier is currently working on a book manuscript based upon her dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association’s Ernst B. Haas Award in 2013. The project examines support for political parties associated with terrorists groups in relatively free and fair elections. She is also the 2015 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on European Politics and Society’s Best Paper Award and has published her work in a number of journals including the Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

Research that has influenced Mary Beth's career

Kalyvas, S. (2006) The Logic of Violence in Civil War

Wilkinson, S. (2004) Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India

Rusbult, Caryl (1980) Commitment and satisfaction in romantic associations. Journalof Experimental Psychology

Some of Mary Beth's key Research

Voting for Violence (2011)

Turning Away from Terrorism: Lessons from Psychology, Sociology and Criminology. With Christian N. Thoroughgood and John G. Horgan (2014)

Why They Leave: An Analysis of Terrorist Disengagement Events from Eighty-Seven Autobiographical Accounts. With Emma Leonard Boyle, Neil D. Shortland and John G. Horgan

Further episodes of Talking Terror

Further podcasts by John F. Morrison

Website of John F. Morrison