Peter R. Neumann

Peter R. Neumann is a Professor of Security Studies at King's College London, where he founded and directed the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR). He also serves as a Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme (University of Oxford) and a Senior Researcher for the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN-PS). Previously, he held visiting or adjunct roles at Sciences Po (Lyon), Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of St. Gallen.

• Education: PhD in War Studies (King's College London), MA in Political Science (Free University of Berlin).

His research focuses on radicalisation, extremism, terrorism, and counter-terrorism, with a particular emphasis on online extremism, migration and security, and foreign fighter networks. His publications include Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West (2016), Bluster: Donald Trump’s War on Terror (2020), and The New World Disorder (2023), an intellectual history of Western foreign policy post-Cold War.

Professor Neumann’s academic output spans 15+ years, covering topics such as prison radicalization (2020), hybrid terrorism (2020), bioterrorism during the pandemic (2020), and systemic lessons from European terrorist plots (2019–2020). His work often bridges empirical analysis (e.g., socio-economic drivers of Islamic State recruitment, 2021) and policy-oriented contributions (e.g., CVE strategies in Europe, 2019).

He has advised Western governments and international institutions extensively, including a role as OSCE Special Representative on Countering Violent Extremism in 2017. Prior to academia, he worked as a radio journalist in Germany.