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Jacob Ware is a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he studies domestic and international terrorism and counterterrorism. Together with Bruce Hoffman, he is the author of God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America, published in 2024 by Columbia University Press  and recipient of the Airey Neave Book Prize. He was previously a research associate for counterterrorism at CFR.

In addition to his work at CFR, Ware is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and at DeSales University. Jacob serves as a Survivor Fellow at Everytown for Gun Safety as well as a non-resident fellow with the Illiberalism Studies Program, part of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He has also completed visiting research stays at Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative and the University of Oslo’s Center for Research on Extremism. Jacob serves on the editorial boards for the academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and the Irregular Warfare Initiative, and his work has appeared in publications including Foreign Affairs, Foreign PolicyWar on the RocksNational InterestCNN, and the Wall Street Journal.

Ware holds an MA in security studies from Georgetown and an MA (Hons) in international relations and modern history from the University of St Andrews.

affiliations

  • DeSales University, lecturer
  • Everytown for Gun Safety, survivor fellow
  • Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, adjunct assistant professor
  • George Washington University, Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, non-resident scholar
  • Irregular Warfare Initiative, editorial board member
  • Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, editorial board member
  • The Hoffman Group, associate
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