Biography

R. Kim Cragin, Ph.D is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland. She focuses on terrorism-related issues, spending three months on GEN Petraeus' staff in 2008. In addition to Iraq, Kim has conducted fieldwork in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt, Colombia, Northern Ireland, northwest China, Sri Lanka, southern Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the southern Philippines. Kim managed the RAND Terrorism Chronology between 2000 and 2007. Her RAND publications include Arms Trafficking and Colombia (2002), Terrorism and Development (2003), The Dynamic Terrorist Threat (2004), Dissuading Terror (2005), and Sharing the Dragon's Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies (2007). Kim also has published academic articles outside RAND, including "The Early History of al-Qa'ida" in the reviewed Historical Journal (2008). Before coming to RAND, Kim attended the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was awarded the Boren Fellowship to study religious extremism. Kim completed her doctoral work at Cambridge University (Clare College) in the United Kingdom in June 2008. Her dissertation was titled, "Palestinian Resistance Through the Eyes of Hamas."