J.M. Berger

John M. Berger, born 1967, is an American academic and former investigative journalist who specializes in extremism and terrorism studies and holds a PhD in criminology from Swansea University School of Law. He serves as a senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, has been an associate fellow of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism and a research fellow at the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, and was previously a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution. He founded the investigative journalism platform Intelwire and authored Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam (2011), ISIS: The State of Terror (2015, with Jessica Stern) and Extremism (2018); the ISIS book was listed by the Wall Street Journal among ten must-read books on the evolution of terrorism in the Middle East. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/