Yossef Bodansky

Yossef Bodansky
Born Israel
Occupation Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare (1988-2004), Director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association, Senior Editor for the Defense and Foreign Affairs'

Yossef Bodansky (born in Israel[1]) is an Israeli-American political scientist who served as Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004.[2] He is also Director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association and has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In the 1980s, he served as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense and the Department of State.[2]

The work of the Congressional Task Force (which had been established in 1981[3]) involved staff producing what they described as "ground truth" by "repeated visits to the areas they were studying and [developing] face-to-face relationships with their sources" and actively participated in supporting them. According to a compilation of Task Force reports published in 2007, "Task Force staff members went into Afghanistan and rode with the mujahideen as they fought against the Soviets. They helped the fighters secure the weapons and humanitarian aid they needed and evacuate the seriously wounded."[4] The Task Force also contributed to related legislation, including authoring "key parts of the Diplomatic Security and Anti-Terrorism Act" (1986), allowing the FBI to investigate outside the US.[3] Task Force reports did not generally divulge sourcing in public reports, and fully referenced versions of their reports were released only to the Task Force chairmen, and not even to other committee members.[5]

Bodansky is also a senior editor for the Defense and Foreign Affairs group of publications and a contributor to the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia and is on the Advisory Council of The Intelligence Summit. Bodansky's numerous articles have been published in Global Affairs, Jane's Defense Weekly, Defense and Foreign Affairs: Strategic Policy and other periodicals.[2]

Finally, Bodansky is the Director of Global Panel America (Global Panel Foundation), a respected NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world. The Global Panel Foundation has offices and satellites in Berlin, Copenhagen, New York, Prague, Sydney and Toronto.[6] Bodansky is also one of the directors of Prague Society, an NGO whose main efforts are networking and the development of a new generation of responsible, well-informed leaders and thinkers.[7]

Publications

Books
Articles and commentary

References

  1. ↑ Salon, 1 November 2001, Who is Osama bin Laden?
  2. 1 2 3 HarperCollins, Yossef Bodansky, accessed 6 September 2013
  3. 1 2 Richard J. Leitner, Peter M. Leitner (editors), Unheeded Warnings: The Lost Reports of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Volume 1: Islamic Terrorism and the West, Washington: Crossbow Books 2007. ISBN 978-0-9792236-6-2, p18
  4. ↑ Richard J. Leitner, Peter M. Leitner (editors), Unheeded Warnings: The Lost Reports of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Volume 1: Islamic Terrorism and the West, Washington: Crossbow Books 2007. ISBN 978-0-9792236-6-2, p20
  5. ↑ Richard J. Leitner, Peter M. Leitner (editors), Unheeded Warnings: The Lost Reports of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Volume 1: Islamic Terrorism and the West, Washington: Crossbow Books 2007. ISBN 978-0-9792236-6-2, p21
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ Mission of Prague Society

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