THE FUTURE OF JIHADISM IN EUROPE
THE FUTURE OF JIHADISM IN EUROPE
Thomas Hergghammer in conversation with Gudrun Harrer
After a wave of ISIS-inspired attacks in the mid-2010s, Europe witnessed a slowdown in jihadi activity. Are the recent incidents in France and Austria a sign of a renewal or merely the death throes of a movement in decline? In this conversation, Thomas Hegghammer and Gudrun Harrer will discuss the current state and future prospects of jihadism in Europe.
Thomas Hegghammer is Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is a Middle East specialist who has worked on militant Islamism since before 9/11. He is the author of many articles and several books on militant Islamism, including Jihad in Saudi Arabia (Cambridge, 2010), Jihadi Culture (Cambridge, 2017) and The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad (Cambridge University Press, March 2020).
Gudrun Harrer, Senior Editor, Der Standard, Lecturer of Modern History and Politics of the Middle East at the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna