Jytte Klausen
Degrees
New School for Social Research, Ph.D.University of Aarhus, Ph.D.
University of Aarhus, B.A.
Expertise
Domestic and international terrorism. Islam in the West. Immigration and social cohesion.Western Jihadism Project Laboratory Webpage: http://www.brandeis.edu/klausen-jihadism/about.html
Profile
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 worldwide protests against the Danish cartoons of the Muslim Prophet, and The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press 2005, pb. 2007). In 2006, Klausen founded the Western Jihadism Project, which studies Western violent extremists associated with al-Qa’ida. Klausen has written for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and other national and international outlets, and she is a regular commentator on the BBC, Voice of America, and other U.S. and international media. In 2021, Oxford University Press will publish her next book titled Western Jihadism: A Thirty-Year History. . WebpageCourses Taught
| POL | 93a | Research Internship in Political Science |
| POL | 134b | The Global Migration Crisis |
| POL | 137b | Seminar: Psychology of Political Violence |
| POL | 145b | Seminar: Muslims in the West: Politics, Religion, and Law |
| POL | 156b | Seminar: European Culture & Politics |
| POL | 160a | The War on Global Terrorism |
Awards and Honors
Brandeis University Senior Faculty Research Semester Award (2019)
Associate Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR), Department of War Studies, King’s College London. (2018)
Fellow (in residence), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (2016 - 2017)
Senior Program Advisor and Transatlantic Fellow, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, London (ongoing) (2010)
Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (ongoing) (2008)
2007 Carnegie Scholars Award (2007)
Bosch Fellow, American Academy in Berlin (2004)
British Academy Visiting Professor, Nuffield College, Oxford University (2003 - 2004)
U.S. Institute of Peace Fellowship (2003)
Bunting Institute Fellowship (1997 - 1998)
Scholarship
Klausen, Jytte with Shashika R. Muramudalige, Benjamin W. K. Hung, Anura P. Jayasumana, and Indrakshi Ray. "Enhancing investigative pattern detection via inexact matching and graph databases." Transactions on Services Computing n.a.. n.a. (2021): n.a..
Klausen, Jytte. "Review." Rev. of Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad, by Daniel Byman. Bustan: The Middle East Book Review vol. 11 of 2 2020: 217-223.
Klausen, Jytte. Western Jihadism. A Thirty-Year History. first ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
B. W. K. Hung, S. R. Muramudalige, A. P. Jayasumana, J. Klausen, R. Libretti, E. Moloney, P. Renugopalakrishnan. "Recognizing Radicalization Indicators in Text Documents Using Human-in-the-Loop Information Extraction and NLP Techniques." 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), Woburn, MA,. 2019.
Klausen, Jytte with Alexandra Johnson, Alyssa Kann, Priyanka Renugopalakrishnan, and Yujiao Su. Jihadi Gangs - The New Crime Terror Nexus. Proc. of Exploring Organized Crime-Terror Networks. East China University of Political Science and Law, March 15-16, 2019. Shanghai, China: 2019.
Klausen, Jytte, with Jason Freeland, Counter Terrorism Command, Victoria Police, Melbourne, Australia, and Caroline A. Pagé, Operational Psychologist with the National Security Intervention Team, Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "“Dynamic Threat Assessment: An Innovative Approach to Preventive Investigations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism,”." Evidence-based work with violent extremists. Ed. Martine Evans. London: Rowman & LIttlefield, 2019. 47-62.
Klausen, Jytte. "How to Disrupt the Link Between Crime and Extremism." Challenges in Counter-Extremism (2019): <https://institute.global/insight/co-existence/how-disrupt-link-between-crime-and-extremism>.
Klausen, Jytte. "Jihadists Head Home: Thousands of Westerners Joined ISIS. Should They Be Allowed to Return?." Foreign Affairs.
Klausen, Jytte. "Neighbourhood Effects—How Jihadist Recruitment Really Works." Jihadist Terror, New Threats, New Responses. Ed. Anthony Richards with Devorah Margolin and Nicolo Scremin. London: Bloomsbury/I.B.Tauris, 2019. 137-154.
Klausen, Jytte, Christopher Marks, and Tauhid Zaman. "Finding Online Extremists in Social Networks." Operations Research 66. 4 (2018): 893-1188.
Klausen, Jytte, with Rosanne Libretti, Benjamin W.K. Hung, and Anura P. Jayasumana. "Dynamics of Homegrown Radicalization: An Evidence-Based Approach to Risk Assessment." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2018).
Klausen, Jytte. "Tweeting the Jihad [Arabic translation]." Al-Aalam (online journal) [Egypt] (2018)
Klausen, Jytte. "Why Jihadist Attacks have declined in Europe-And Why Europe Shouldn’t get Comfortable Yet." Foreign Affairs December 19, 2018.
Klausen, Jytte. "Anti-Semitism and Terrorism. How the West Must Fight Both." Foreign Affairs May 10, 2016.
Klausen, Jytte. "British Intelligence Fails Again. Will the London Attack Lead to Reform?." Foreign Affairs June 7, 2017.
Klausen, Jytte. "Lone Wolves No More. How ISIS' European Cells Really Operate." Foreign Affairs March 29, 2016.
Klausen, Jytte. "Terror in the Terroir: The Roots of France’s Jihadist Problem." Rev. of Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West, by Gilles Kepel. Foreign Affairs vol. 96 September/October, 2017: 166-172.
Klausen, Jytte. "The Myth of Homegrown Terrorism. Special Issue: What the New Administration Needs to Know About Terrorism and Counterterrorism." The Georgetown Security Studies Review February 2017. (2017): 50-60.
Klausen, Jytte. "Why the London Attacker Was no Lone Wolf. Dispelling a Dangerous Myth." Foreign Affairs March 24, 2017.
Jytte Klausen, Christopher Marks and Tauhid Zaman. "Finding Online Extremists in Social Networks." (2016)
Klausen, Jytte (with Alexandra Johnson). "Lone Wolves No More: How ISIS' European Cells Really Operate." Foreign Affairs March 29, 2016. (2016).
Klausen, Jytte (with Selene Campion, Nathan Needle, Giang Nguyen, and Rosanne Libretti). "A Behavioral Model of ‘Homegrown’ Radicalization Trajectories." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 39. 1 (2016): 67-83.
Klausen, Jytte (with Tyler Morrill, & Rosanne Libretti). "The Terrorist Age-Crime Curve: An Analysis of American Islamist Terrorist Offenders and Age- Specific Propensity for Participation in Violent and Non-Violent Incidents." Social Science Quarterly 97. 1 (2016): 19-34.
Klausen, Jytte, with Christopher Marks (Lt.Col.), Krishan Rajagopalan (Ens.), Dr. Tauhid Zaman. "Exploration of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Twitter Account Activities and Patterns." Working Paper. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Klausen, Jytte. A Behavioral Study of the Radicalization Trajectories of American “Homegrown” Al Qaeda-Inspired Terrorist Offenders. Final Report.. Washington D.C. NIJ/OSP, U.S. Department of Justice: 2016.
Klausen, Jytte. The Role of Social Networks in the Evolution of Al Qaeda-Inspired Violent Extremism in the United States, 1990-2015. Final Report. Washington D.C. NIJ/OSP, U.S. Department of Justice.: 2016.
Klausen, Jytte. "Europe's Real Border Problem. Openness Isn't the Issue." Foreign Affairs November 16, 2015. (2015).
Klausen, Jytte. "Freedom of Speech Is of No Use Unless We Exercise It." TIME January 7, 2015.
Klausen, Jytte. "The Danish Cartoons and Modern Iconoclasm in the Cosmopolitan Muslim Diaspora." Muhammad in the Digital Age. Ed. Ruqayya Yasmine Khan. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015
Klausen, Jytte. "Tweeting the Jihad: Social Media Networks of Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 38. 1 (2015): 1-22.
Klausen, Jytte. "“France on Fire”: The Charlie Hebdo Attack and the Future of Al Qaeda." Foreign Affairs January 7, 2015. 1 (2015): 1-2.
Klausen, Jytte. "“They’re Coming. Measuring the Threat from Returning Jihadists”." Foreign Affairs October 1, 2014. (2014): 1-2.
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.