Managing Terrorist Threats

Lecture and discussion with

Dr. Amichai Magen
Head of the Diplomacy and Conflict Studies Program at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel

Since international terror has hit Western democracies repeatedly right in its heart in recent years – New York to Paris, Barcelona to Berlin – public fears are rising. As a result, calls for more security and political actionism is growing in an effort to ward off terrorism. Dr. Magen’s research challenges conventional wisdom that liberal societies are the main target of terrorism uses his findings to argue that democracies actually have less to fear in the face of international terror than other regime types do.