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Title

Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation

Degree

Ph.D., New School for Social Research

Field of Specialty

Comparative politics. Islam in the West. Immigration and social cohesion. Europe.

Contact Information

Olin-Sang American Civilization Center 110
781-736-2762
klausen@brandeis.edu

Jytte Klausen

Jytte Klausen is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University and an Affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of "The Cartoons That Shook the World" (Yale University Press 2009) about the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and the worldwide protests that followed their publication.
She is the author of numerous books and articles on immigrant integration, the European welfare state, and social inclusion. Her previous book, "The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe" (Oxford University Press 2005, paperback 2007), was published in German and Turkish translations. Klausen’s new work is on Western Jihadism and terrorism.
Klausen was a British Academy Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University (2003), and a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at The American Academy in Berlin (2004). She has a PhD from the New School for Social Research (1992) and a BA and MA from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. In 2007, Klausen received the Carnegie Scholars’ Award for research on the integration of Muslim faith communities in Europe.

Publications

Klausen, Jytte, with Eliane Barbieri, Aaron Y. Zelin, and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. "Keyboard Jihadism: A Social Network Analysis of Al-Muhajiroun’s YouTube Propaganda Network." Perspectives on Terrorism 6. 1 (2012): no pagination.

Klausen, Jytte. "France's Jihadist Shooter Was No Lone Wolf." The Wall Street Journal March 24, 2012.: Op-Ed A13.

Klausen, Jytte. "Review Essay. Muslims in the West after 9/11." Perspectives on Politics vol. 8 2011: pp. 1245-1247.

Klausen, Jytte. Al Qaeda-Affiliated and ‘Homegrown’ Jihadism in The United Kingdom, 1999-2010. London. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue: 2011.

Klausen, Jytte. "Europe’s Uneasy Marriage of Secularisation and Christianity Since the 1960s and the Challenge of Contemporary Religious Pluralism." Religion and the Political Imagination. Ed. Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. pp. 314-335.

Klausen, Jytte. "British Counter-Terrorism after 7/7: Adapting Community-Policing to the Fight Against Domestic Terrorism." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies v. 35. n. 3 (2009): 403 - 420.

Klausen, Jytte. "Europe Re-Discovers Religion; Four Working Hypothesis about Causes and Consequences." European Political Science. The Journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, v. 8. n. 2 (2009).

Klausen, Jytte. "Muslims Representing Muslims in Europe: Parties and Associations After 9/11." Muslims in Western Politics. 1st ed. Ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2009. 166-193.

Klausen, Jytte. "The Danish Cartoons and Modern Iconoclasm in the Cosmopolitan Muslim Diaspora." Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review v. 8. n. 1 (2009): pp. 86-118.

Klausen, Jytte. The Cartoons That Shook the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Klausen, Jytte. Islam¿ Yeniden Düsünmek: Bat¿ Avrupa'da Siyaset ve Din (Turkish translation of "The Islamic Challenge"). 1st ed. Istanbul: Liberté, 2008.

Klausen, Jytte. Public Policy for European Muslims: Facts and Perceptions. Background Paper for High-Level meeting organized by the Slovenian Presidency for the European Union. Institute for Strategic Dialogue. London: 2008.

Klausen, Jytte. ""The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Europe."." The Berlin Journal, The American Academy in Berlin, no. 11, 2006. Reprinted in British Academy Review, Summer 2006, pp. 1-3. and The Review of Faith & International Affairs, fall 2006. (2007).

Klausen, Jytte. The Islamic Challege: Politics and Religion in Western Europe. 1st ed., 2005. 2 ed. Paperback with new foreword ed. Oxford, Engl. and New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Klausen, Jytte. Europas muslimische Eliten. Wer sie sind und was sie wolle. 1st ed. Frankfurt, Germany: Campus verlag, 2006.

Klausen, Jytte. ""Europe's Muslim Political Elite: Walking a Tightrope"." World Policy Journal Vol. XII, No. 3, Fall. (2005).

Klausen, Jytte. ""Muslimische politische Eliten in Europe"." Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte May. (2005).

Klausen, Jytte. The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe. Oxford, Engl. and New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Klausen,Jytte, edited with Charles S. Meier. Has Liberalism Failed Women? Assuring Equal Representation in Europe and the United States. Palgrave, 2001.

Klausen,Jytte. War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present. Palgrave, 2001.

Klausen,Jytte. War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present. 1998, reprinted paperback 2001. ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.

Klausen,Jytte, co-ed. Louise Tilly. European Integration in a Social and Historical Perspective 1850 to the Present. Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.

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