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30
Citations
5461
World Ranking
1149
National Ranking
582

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1970 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Walter Laqueur was affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the United States. Their research contributions spanned several fields within the social sciences and humanities.

The main fields of study associated with their work included Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Within these broad categories, they specialized in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, History, and Political Science and International Relations.

Walter Laqueur's scholarly work concentrated on topics encompassing German legal, social, and political studies, German history and society, as well as religion, theology, history, focusing on Judaism and Christianity.

  • German legal, social, and political studies
  • German History and Society
  • Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity

In recognition of their contributions, Walter Laqueur received the fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1970.

Best Publications

  • The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction

    Walter Laqueur

  • Breaking the silence

    Karl A. Schleunes;Walter Laqueur;Richard Breitman

  • The age of terrorism

    Walter Laqueur

  • No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century

    Walter Laqueur

  • A history of Zionism

    Walter Laqueur

  • The Holocaust Encyclopedia

    Walter Laqueur;Judith Tydor Baumel

  • The New Terrorism

    Walter Laqueur

  • A History of Terrorism

    Walter Laqueur

  • The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict

    Walter Laqueur

  • Guerrilla: A Historical And Critical Study

    Walter Laqueur

  • The Human rights reader

    Walter Laqueur;Barry M. Rubin

  • Fascism: Past, Present, Future

    Walter Laqueur

  • Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement

    Andreas Dorpalen;Walter Z. Laqueur

  • Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical and Critical Study

    Walter Laqueur

  • A world of secrets : the uses and limits of intelligence

    Walter Laqueur

  • Reflections on Terrorism

    Walter Laqueur

  • Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia

    Walter Laqueur

  • Communism And Nationalism In The Middle East

    Walter Z. Laqueur

  • Postmodern Terrorism: New Rules for an Old Game

    Walter Laqueur

  • Interpretations of Terrorism: Fact, Fiction and Political Science

    Walter Laqueur

  • The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

    Walter Laqueur

  • The Terrorism reader : a historical anthology

    Walter Ze'ev Laqueur

  • A History of Zionism

    Abraham D. Lavender;Walter Laqueur

  • A History of Zionism.

    Elmer N. Lear;Walter Z. Laqueur

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Campbell
John C. Campbell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Herbert Kitschelt
Herbert Kitschelt Duke University
Robert Legvold
Robert Legvold Columbia University
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski Center for Strategic and International Studies
Hans-Georg Betz
Hans-Georg Betz University of Zurich

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