Western jihadism : a thirty year history / Jytte Klausen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klausen, Jytte, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--History--21st century.

Terrorism.

Qaida (Organization)--History.

Qaida (Organization).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

30 year history

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This volume tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in the West. In forensic and compelling detail, Jytte Klausen traces how Islamist revolutionaries exiled in Europe and North America in the 1990s helped create and control one of the world's most impactful terrorist movements - and how, after the near-obliteration of the organization during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, they helped build it again. She shows how the diffusion of Islamist terrorism to Europe and North America has been driven, not by local grievances of Western Muslims, but by the strategic priorities of the international Salafi-jihadist revolutionary movement.

Contents:

Introduction

The Founder

The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing

The Sudan Years

The European Bases

9/11: The Day Everything Changed

Homegrown Terrorism

Theory and Practice of the Armed Struggle

Made in the USA

The Boston Marathon Bombers

The ISIS Effect

The Never-Ending Forever War

Appendix: Methodology.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

print version:

ISBN:

0-19-264380-0

0-19-191339-1

0-19-264379-7