How Terrorist Groups End - RAND Corporation

About the Authors
Seth G. Jones is a political scientist at RAND and an adjunct professor
at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He specializes in stability
operations and counterinsurgency. He is the author of In the Graveyard
of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan (W. W. Norton, forthcoming)
and The Rise of European Security Cooperation (Cambridge University
Press, 2007). He has published articles in such journals as International
Security, National Interest, Security Studies, Chicago Journal of International
Law, International Affairs, and Survival, as well as such newspapers
and magazines as the New York Times, Newsweek, Financial Times,
and International Herald Tribune. His RAND publications include
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: RAND Counterinsurgency Study,
Volume 4 (2008); Establishing Law and Order after Conflict (2005);
The UN’s Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq (2005); and
America’s Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq (2003). He
received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Martin C. Libicki is a senior management scientist at RAND,
focusing on the relationship between information technology and
national security. This work is documented in commercially published
books, Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information
Warfare (2007) and Information Technology Standards: Quest for
the Common Byte (1995), as well as in numerous monographs, notably
What Is Information Warfare (1995), The Mesh and the Net: Speculations
on Armed Conflict in a Time of Free Silicon (1994), and Exploring Terrorist
Targeting Preferences (2007). He was also an editor of the RAND
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