David Malet Associate Professor Justice, Law & Criminology
- Degrees
- PhD, Political Science, George Washington University
MA, National Security Studies, Georgetown University
BA, Political Science and International Relations, Boston University
BS, Education, Boston University - Bio
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David Malet’s research and teaching focus on political violence and the impact of transnational networks on security. He is an Associate Professor and Director of the PhD Program in the Department of Justice Law and Criminology. His current projects include books on Outsiders in Ukraine: Non-state Actors in Twenty-first Century War, and Crowdsourced Terror, which examine how violent extremists increasingly mobilize lone actors and flash mobs.
Dr. Malet has been researching foreign fighter recruitment since 2005, and he is the author of Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts (Oxford University Press, 2013), and co-editor of Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2017). He regularly consults on foreign fighter policy challenges for organizations including the United Nations and the U.S. Department of State. Recently, he was lead author of a report on best practices in reintegrating ISIS returnees for the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund. He has provided analysis on foreign fighters to media including NPR, CNN, BBC, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy.
His second manuscript, Biotechnology and International Security (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), examined the militarization of human enhancement and other new forms of asymmetric warfare. His interest in military applications of biotech stems from his experience working in a congressional office targeted during the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Dr. Malet previously served as director of the Security Policy Studies Program at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. He also taught at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and at Colorado State University-Pueblo, where he was director of the Center for the Study of Homeland Security and of the University Honors Program. From 2000-2003, he served as research assistant on national security issues to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
- See Also
- SPA Department of Justice, Law and Criminology
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Teaching
Spring 2025
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JLC-663 Foreign Fighters
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JLC-730 Insurgency,Terrorism,Conflict
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JLC-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment
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JLC-899 Doctoral Dissertation
Summer 2025
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JLC-485 Topics in Terrorism: Terrorism and Film
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JLC-663 Foreign Fighters
Fall 2025
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JLC-663 Foreign Fighters
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JLC-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment