Research/Teaching Interests
Terrorism, counterterrorism, terrorist financing, international security, foreign policy

Biography
Michael Freeman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. His research interests focus on the causes of terrorism, the relationship between democracy and terrorism, and U.S. foreign policy. He has taught classes on international terrorism, terrorist financing, and homeland defense and has been invited to give lectures on these topics in to audiences in Iraq, Macedonia, and Germany. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001 and is the author of Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror (Praeger, 2003) as well as several journal articles on terrorism and democracy.

Before joining NPS, he was a lecturer at the University of Chicago, a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth, and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.