General Analysis

Jerrold Post
Professor of Political Psychiatry and International Affairs 

Dr. Post came to GW after a 21 year career with CIAS where he founded and directed the Center for the Analysis of personality and political behavior, an interdisciplinary unit which developed personality profiles of world leaders for  summit meetings and crisis situations, and started the US government research program on the psychology of terrorism.   A widely published author on terrorist psychology an counter-terrorism, Dr. Post is the co-author of Political Paranoia: the Psychopolitics of Hatred, in which he analyzes “Killing in the Name of God.”

He has just completed a project interviewing 35 incarcerated Middle East terrorists ., focus on their motivations, attitudes towards mass casualties, and the rational for suicidal terrorism. He served as an expert witness in the recent trial in federal court of the Osama bin Laden terrorists responsible for the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and has interviewed one of the OBL terrorists in depth.

Office : (202) 994-7386
Home: (301) 229-5536

Frank Cilluffo
Associate Vice President for Homeland Security

Cilluffo joined GW from the White House where he served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Cilluffo was appointed by President George W. Bush to the newly created Office of Homeland Security. In his capacity as Special Assistant to the President for External Affairs, Cilluffo was responsible for engaging and building partnerships with the private sector, academic, and state and local officials and emergency responders on homeland security policies and initiatives. He was a principal advisor to Governor Tom Ridge and directed the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council and its four Senior Advisory Committees. Prior to his White House appointment, Cilluffo spent eight years in senior policy positions with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a Washington based "think tank.” At CSIS he chaired or directed numerous committees and task forces on homeland defense, counterterrorism, transnational crime, and information warfare and information assurance.

Office: (202) 994-0295

Walter Reich
First incumbent of the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Chair at The George Washington University 
Professor Reich is also a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and formerly served as the director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of the book, Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind.

Office: (202) 994-5075
Home: (301) 656-6179

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