Browsing by Author "Lia, Brynjar"
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Asymmetri, asymmetrisk krigføring, asymmetriske trugsmål - bruken av asymmetri-omgrepet i tryggingspolitisk og militærteoretisk litteratur
Lia, Brynjar; Andresen, Rolf-Inge Vogt (2000) -
Atommateriale, gass og mikrober som terrorvåpen? - en undersøkelse av terrorgruppers interesse for og bruk av ikke-konvensjonelle våpen
Lia, Brynjar; Hegghammer, Thomas; Andresen, Rolf-Inge Vogt; Kjøk, Åshild; Bokhari, Laila (2002)This report analyses empirical evidence of terrorist and rebel groups’ efforts at acquiring and using chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) substances as ‘weapons’. The significant technical and ... -
Beskyttelse av samfunnet med fokus på transportsektoren
Hagen, Janne Merete; Rodal, Gry Hege; Hoff, Erlend; Lia, Brynjar; Torp, Jan Erik; Gulichsen, Steinar (2003)This report presents the results from the FFI project "BAS4/Measures to reduce vulnerabilities in the transport system". The main goal of this project is to identify critical vulnerabilities in the transport system, to ... -
Causes of terrorism : an expanded and updated review of the literature
Lia, Brynjar; Skjølberg, Katja (2005)This report presents a critical survey of the academic literature on the causes of terrorism. The study focuses primarily on theories that seek to explain why some societies are more exposed to terrorism than others, i.e. ... -
Er sivil infrastruktur sannsynlege mål for terrorgrupper i fredstid? : nokre førebelse konklusjonar om terrorisme som tryggingspolitisk utfordring i Norge
Lia, Brynjar (2000)The report discusses terrorism as a security policy challenge in Norway. It gives a broad survey of recent trends in terrorism and briefly discusses the potential for weapons of mass destruction terrorism. The report also ... -
Forvaltning av erfaringer fra internasjonale militære operasjoner (lessons learned)
Granviken, Alf; Hansen, Annika S.; Lia, Brynjar; Strømmen, Wegger; Munkvold, Ola Petter (1997) -
Globalisation and the future of terrorism - patterns and predictions
Lia, Brynjar; Hansen, Annika (2000)The present report is a continuation of the work presented in previous reports on an analytical framework for the study of terrorism and asymmetric threats, on the potential for terrorist strikes against infrastructure, ... -
Irak og terrortrusselen - eit oversyn over terrorgrupper med tilknyting til det irakiske regimet
Lia, Brynjar (2003)The present report assesses the terrorist threats emanating from the current conflict in Iraq, focusing on terrorist organisations with past and/or present links to the Iraqi regime. Over the years, Bagdad has supported a ... -
Islamist insurgencies, diasporic support networks, and their host states - the case of the Algerian GIA in Europe 1993-2000
Lia, Brynjar; Kjøk, Åshild (2001)Globalisation and transnational migration have increased the impact of insurgencies overseas on European security. The presence of a significant Muslim diaspora in Europe, and the emergence of Islamist support networks ... -
Jihadism in Norway: a Typology of Militant Networks in a Peripheral European Country
Nesser, Petter; Lia, Brynjar (2016)Jihadism in Norway has witnessed a huge shift from consisting primarily of foreign ethnically homogenous networks with a low capacity for mobilization, to the current situation where a loose country-wide network of domestic ... -
Militære installasjonar som terrormål i fredstid? - ein gjennomgang av faktiske terroranslag mot militære installasjonar på 1990-talet
Lia, Brynjar (2001)This short study examines empirical examples of attacks on permanent military installations and bases by insurgent and terrorist groups during the 1990s, focusing on incidents, which took place in democratic countries or ... -
Paths to global Jihad: Radicalisation and recruitment to terror networks - proceedings from a FFI seminar, Oslo, 15 March 2005
Bokhari, Laila; Hegghammer, Thomas; Lia, Brynjar; Nesser, Petter; Tønnessen, Truls H. (2006)In order to effectively combat international terrorism, government authorities need to understand the process of recruitment to violent Islamist or jihadist movements. In this report, the Transnational Radical Islamism ... -
Terror mot drikkevann : en oversikt over terrorgruppers interesse for å ramme offentlig vannforsyning
Lia, Brynjar; Nesser, Petter (2003)The present report examines the terrorist threat to Norwegian water supplies. The new threat environment in the post9/11 era is explored and is followed by a global survey of nearly 50 terrorist and sabotage attacks against ... -
Terror mot jarnvegar : eit oversyn over typiske terroraksjonar mot togpassasjertransport
Lia, Brynjar; Nesser, Petter (2005)This report describes and categorizes the most typical terrorist attacks against train passengers and the passengercarrying railway systems. Compared to other parts of the civilian infrastructure, including the transportation ... -
Terror mot transport : en revurdering av terrortrusselen mot transportrelaterte mål i lys av 11. september
Lia, Brynjar (2003)This short study assesses the terrorism threat against transport related targets in Norway. The first part of the report looks at the terrorism threat in Norway and the changing threat environment emanating from the growing ... -
Terrorism and oil - an explosive mixture? - a survey of terrorist and rebel attacks on petroleum infrastructure 1968-1999
Kjøk, Åshild; Lia, Brynjar (2001)This report presents an overview of terrorist and rebel attacks against petroleum production infrastructure during the past three decades. It aims at providing an empirical basis for the development of scenarios for long-term ... -
Terrorism, political violence and organised crime - security policy challenges of non-state actors` use of violence - proceedings from an international seminar in Oslo
Lia, Brynjar; Andresen, Rolf-Inge Vogt (2001)This report contains five papers presented at the seminar Terrorism - Past, Present and Future (Oslo, September 2000). Annika Hansen discusses whether the use of force in peace operations leads to more international ... -
Warum es zu Terrorismus kommt - Ein Überblick über Theorien und Hypothesen zu den Ursachen des Terrorismus
Skjølberg, Katja; Lia, Brynjar (2004) -
Why terrorism occurs - a survey of theories and hypotheses on the causes of terrorism
Lia, Brynjar; Skjølberg, Katja (2000)Research literature on terrorism has often been criticised for a general lack of scientifically sound theoretical research on patterns and causes of terrorism. This report provides an updated survey of existing theories ...