Name Lorenzo Vidino | ||
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Books Al Qaeda in Europe, The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West | ||
Lorenzo G. Vidino is an Italian foreign policy expert, who holds American citizenship. He was born in Milan, Italy. He holds a law degree from the University of Milan and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He specializes on Islamism and political violence in Europe and North America.
Career
A visiting fellow at the RAND Corporation in Washington DC from October 2010, he previously held fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Vidino was chosen to head the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security's Program on Extremism which launched in June 2015.
He is the author of two books (his latest, The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West, is published by Columbia University Press), congressional testimonies, and frequent articles in several prominent newspapers and academic journals.