Mick Quinn, Dublin

Mia Bloom

Mia Mellissa Bloom is an Associate professor in International and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and a fellow at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism. She is the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror, Living Together After Ethnic Killing with Roy Licklider, and Bombshell: Women and Terrorism. Bloom is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held research or teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, a Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelors from McGill University in Russian and Middle East Studies and speaks nine languages.

Bombshell - The wide angle

The book relates to the changing nature of terrorism and how different groups are either being forced or recruited into these deadly organizations.I address several underlying theories about the nature of political violence and how organizations mobilize and recruit populations to become involved.

Editor: Erind Pajo
November 28, 2011

Mia Bloom Bombshell: Women and Terrorism University of Pennsylvania Press320 pages, 6 x 9 inches ISBN 978 0812243901

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