ISP Faculty in the Field: ISP Fellow Dr. Kiril Avramov Set to Publish Second Book, Receives Eyes of Texas Excellence Award 2026  

Next month, Dr. Kiril Avramov, Non-Resident Fellow at the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) and Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, will publish his second book of the past year entitled, “Ladders of Escalation: Flexible Modeling in Comparative Cases of the State-Sponsored Targeted Killings,” with Springer Nature. His co-author, Adam Hanzel, is a former student of Dr. Avramov’s and a current PhD candidate based at the Metropolitan University Prague as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow.  

This forthcoming publication will provide a comparative overview of the attributes associated with the state targeted-killing programs of Russia, the United States, Israel, France, and India. Interested members of the ISP community are encouraged to learn more about the book here. “Ladders of Escalation: Flexible Modeling in Comparative Cases of the State-Sponsored Targeted Killings” will be released in May 2026.  

In addition to this accomplishment, Dr. Avramov has also been awarded the Eyes of Texas Excellence Award for 2026. This accolade recognizes select professors’ immensely positive impact to the educations and lives of UT Austin students.  

The Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project remains proud of its faculty members’ dedication to ISP’s mission of not only developing the skills of tomorrow’s intelligence professionals inside of the classroom but contributing to scholarly discourse within the intelligence studies community beyond the Forty Acres.    

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