Education
Ph.D., 2010
Political Science, University of California-Los Angeles
Max Abrahms is a tenured professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University; an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Emerging Markets at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Security and Resilience Studies, International Affairs, Global Resilience Institute, and Jewish Studies; as well as a non-resident fellow at both the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Observer Research Foundation, India’s top think tank. Previously, he has held fellowships and other research positions with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the Empirical Studies of Conflict project at Princeton University, the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy, the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University, the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, the Human Security Centre in London, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Center for the Study of Terrorism in Rome, the Belfer Center at Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Abrahms frequently fields interviews about international security issues for expert analysis in the media (e.g., BBC, New York Times, USA Today, Voice of America, Washington Post) and consults with government agencies about the contemporary terrorism landscape (e.g., CIA, NCTC). At Northeastern, he teaches courses about international security, national security, international relations, and counterterrorism.
