Michael Kenney

Michael Kenney is the Wesley W. Posvar Chair in International Security Studies, Director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center, and Professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Kenney teaches and conducts research on high-risk activism and political violence, organization theory and social network analysis, and ethnography and qualitative research. He is the author of The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network, which received the 2019 Best Book Award from the Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association. He also authored From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation. Kenney’s work on terrorism, Islamist militancy, and transnational organized crime has appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Psychology, Survival, Orbis, Global Crime, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence and other publications.