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Bio:
Damien is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Damien obtained his PhD in Politics from Monash University (Australia). Prior to joining CENS, Damien was an adjunct research fellow at the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC). He also lectured in strategic communications at Monash University from 2009 – 2010.
Damien’s current research examines how violent non-state actors employ strategic communications in their recruitment efforts. His other research interests include: political violence, security studies, Middle East politics and political Islam.
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Selected Publications:
“Economics and Political Survival: The Experience of the Palestinian leadership under Yasser Arafat, 1994-2004”, Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol. 34, (2009-2010), pp. 7 – 44.
“The Instrumental Use of Jihad: Explaining the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Suicide Attacks during 2005 – 2006”, in Fethi Mansouri and Shahram Akbarzadeh, (eds.), Political Islam and Human Security, (Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), pp. 221 – 239.
Hong Kong Triads in the 1990s: Resilience through Entrepreneurship, Centre of East Asian Studies Occasional Paper 6, (Victoria, Australia: Monash University, 2006).
Opinion-Editorials
‘Being neighbourly in the post-Mubarak Mid East’, On Line Opinion, 21 February, 2011.
‘Mohammed El Baradei is no shoo-in as Egyptian leader’, On Line Opinion, 10 February, 2011.
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Selected Public Talks and Activities:
‘Speaking about Palestine, did you know…?’, presented at Monash Asia Institute ‘Reports from Asia’ seminar series, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 15 November, 2006.
‘The Crisis of Legitimacy within the Fatah Movement and its Impact on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’, presented at Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Amman, Jordan, 11 – 16 June, 2006.
‘The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Attempts to Remain Relevant in Palestinian Politics’, presented at International Conference on Islam, Human Security and Xenophobia, Melbourne, Australia, 25 – 26 November, 2005.
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