Michael Radu

FPRI is saddened to report that its longtime Senior Fellow Michael Radu (April 29, 1947 – March 25, 2009) has passed away. He joined FPRI in 1981, becoming founding co-chairman of our Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security in 2002.

Dr. Radu was born and grew up in Romania. He came to the United States and received his doctorate in international relations from Columbia University in 1981. He was author, co-author, or editor of 15 books, two of them due out later this year. He possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of terrorist groups worldwide and appeared regularly in local, national, and international media. He had also conducted research for a variety of US government agencies and served as an election monitor in Peru, Cambodia, and Romania. He was an editor and co-founder of Agora, a Romanian-language quarterly published by FPRI from 1987-91; the journal was distributed in Romania in the last years of the Ceausescu regime and included contributions from dissidents and exiles throughout Eastern Europe. His E-notes on a wide variety of topics appear on our website; he was also a frequent contributor to Orbis. He received two master’s degrees from Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), in philosophy and art history, and was a National Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 1984–85.

Michael is survived by his wife, Patricia, to whom FPRI’s trustees and staff extend their heartfelt condolences. Michael will be greatly missed by his colleagues and community.

Books by Michael Radu

Europe’s ghost. Islamism and jihad in Western Europe (Encounter Books, New York, forthcoming 2009)
Islam in Europe, Mason Crest Books, Philadelphia, 2009
The War on Terrorism. A collection of FPRI essays, 2001–2007, editor (with Stephen Gale and Harvey Sicherman), Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 2008
Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship: Place, Time and Ideology, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 2006
Islamism and Terrorist Groups in Asia, Mason Crest Publishers, 2005
The Cuban transition: Lessons from the Romanian experience, Cuba Transition Project, University of Miami, Miami 2003
Dangerous Neighborhood: Contemporary issues in Turkey’s Foreign Policy, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 2002, Editor and principal contributor
Collapse or decay? Cuba and the East European transitions from communism, Endowment for Cuban American Studies, Miami, 1997
The New Insurgents: Anti-communist guerrillas in the Third World, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1990, editor and main contributor
Latin American Revolutionaries. Groups, goals, methods (with Vladimir Tismaneanu), main author, Pergamon Press, New York 1990
Dynamics of Soviet Policies in Sub Saharan Africa (with Arthur J. Klinghoffer), main author, Holt & Meyer, New York, 1990
“The People’s Republic of Congo” (main author, with Keith Somerville), in Benin, The Congo and Burkina Faso, London, Frances Pinter Publishers, London, 1989
Violence and the Latin American Revolutionaries, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988, Editor and main contributor.
Africa in the Post-decolonization Era, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1984, co-editor (with Richard Bissell)
Eastern Europe and the Third World, Praeger, New York, 1981. Editor and principal contributor.