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 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. Her recent work has focused on the development of an evidence-based model of radicalization pathways taken by individuals who commit politically-motivated mass casualty attacks.

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. Her most recent book, Western Jihadism: A Thirty-Year History, was published by Oxford University Press in October 2021. The book was a runner up for the 2022 Airey Neave Book Prize awarded in November 20