About MonTREP

MonTREP's highly qualified and experienced professors ensure that Monterey Institute students have the necessary skills to address the world's most serious security problems and challenges in the upcoming years. Colleen Traughber, Brita Sands, Nathan Poffenberger, Lauren Silver, Alexander Wells

The Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program (MonTREP) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies is a research organization which conducts in-depth scholarly research, assesses policy options, and engages in public education on issues relating to terrorism and counterterrorism, extremist groups, regional studies of terrorism, and related aspects of international and homeland security.

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MonTREP benefits from the employment of professors and students in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies degree program.  The unique courses taught in this program contribute to the research done at MonTREP; all MonTREP research faculty are also teaching professors.  In addition, the language requirement at MIIS creates a large pool of research assistants who are able to proficiently work in languages other than English.  MonTREP pulls all of its graduate research assistants from the Graduate School of International Policy & Management.

Faculty

Jeffrey M. Bale

Associate Professor and Director of the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program (MonTREP)

Office: McGowan 200-D
Email: jeffrey.bale@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6603

Expertise: 

Terrorism
Political and religious extremism
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
Unconventional Warfare
Intelligence and Covert Operations
Conspiracy Theories
Comparative Revolutionary Movements
Youth Subcultures and Counterculture
Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Organized Crime
European History and Politics
Middle Eastern History and Politics
Islamic History
Military History
International Politics

Gordon Hahn

Adjunct Professor and Researcher of Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program

Office: McGowan 200-C
Email: ghahn@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3535

Expertise: 

Russian Studies
Political Science
Islam and Politics in Russia and Eurasia
Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy
International Relations in Eurasia
Regime Transformation Theory
Nationalism
Islamism in Eurasia

Dr. Hahn is perhaps the world’s leading expert on the Caucasus Emirate mujahedin and an internationally recognized expert on Russian and Eurasian domestic and foreign politics, including the North Caucasus.

Brigadier General (Retired) Russell D. Howard

Director of MonTrep and Adjunct Professor

Office: McGowan 200F
Email: rhoward@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6442

Expertise: 

Counterterrorism
Special Operations
Terrorist-Trafficking Nexus
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Africa

Sharad Joshi

Assistant Professor, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies

Office: McGowan 200-F
Email: sharad.joshi@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6508

Expertise: 

International Security
South Asia
Terrorism
Nuclear Proliferation
Afghanistan
Southeast Asia

Dr. Joshi interviewed by NATO Review

Jeffrey Knopf

Program Chair, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies

Office: McGowan 200 C
Email: jknopf@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.7174

Expertise: 

Nuclear Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Utility of Deterrence, Assurance, and other Strategies for Dealing with WMD and Terrorism
International Cooperation
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy