Background
Radu was born in Romania on April 29, 1947.
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Michael S. Radu
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Education
Radu was educated at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj (1965–1975) before emigrating to the United States. in 1976. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in international relations from Columbia University in 1992, focusing on Africa. Radu studied terrorist and insurgent groups worldwide from the mid-1980s until his death in 2009.
Career
He was Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Company-Chairman of FPRI"s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Michael"s mother had been born in the United States of Romanian immigrants. He was a visiting senior lecturer on African politics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
He monitored the 1993 election in Cambodia, as well as elections in Romania, Peru, and Guatemala.
He was a National Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Associated Press.
He has also contributed articles in the Romanian newspapers România Liberă and Cotidianul. Michael Radu died on March 25, 2009, at the age of 61.
Membership
Radu was the author or editor of twelve books on international affairs and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Review of International Law and Politics.
