Faculty Member and Deputy Director for Policy Research, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School
Email: nmorag@nps.edu
Phone: (661) 644-2806
Areas of Interest
Counterterrorism
Comparative homeland security: global lessons
Homeland security education
Biography
Nadav Morag is a faculty member and Deputy Director for Policy Research at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He teaches senior federal, State and local homeland security officials selected and funded by the Department of Homeland Security within the context of the center’s MA in Homeland Security program- this is the only program in the country under the auspices of DHS.
He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at The George Washington University, is a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Management Institute at Long Island University and is a member of the Los Angeles and Orange County Sheriff’s Departments’ Homeland Security Advisory Council.
In 2001, Nadav took up a position, initially as Senior Director for Domestic Policy and subsequently as Senior Director for Foreign Policy, at Israel’s National Security Council, Prime Minister’s Office.
At the Israeli NSC, Nadav worked with a team of ten other senior officials from the Israeli Military, Domestic Security Service, Mossad, Foreign Ministry and Police developing policy recommendations based on intelligence and other sources for then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on matters of national security including counterterrorism policy, bilateral security relations with a number of regional countries and Europe and the development of a national security policy for the Israeli national police.
He also served as a reserve officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the areas of education/training and subsequently in the Army Spokesperson’s Office as an advisor to the chief spokesperson of the IDF on public affairs, media relations and strategic communications.
He has authored articles and book chapters on terrorism, strategy and the Middle East including: “The Economic and Social Effects of Intensive Terrorism: Israel 2000-2004” (Middle East Review of International Affairs), “Measuring Success in Coping with Terrorism: The Israeli Case” (Studies in Conflict and Terrorism), “The National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism: An Assessment,” (Homeland Security Affairs), “Unambiguous Ambiguity: The Opacity of the Oslo Peace Process” (in Israel: The First Hundred Years, Volume II: From War to Peace?, Frank Cass, 2000),”Foreign Intelligence and Counterterrorism: An Israeli Perspective,” forthcoming from Praeger) and is currently writing a book on international homeland security.
Nadav is the 2009 recipient of the LCDR David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award from the Naval Postgraduate School.
