Browsing Articles by Author "Nesser, Petter"

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    • Assessing Islamic State’s Commitment to Attacking the West 

      Nesser, Petter; Hegghammer, Thomas (2015)
      How much of a terrorist threat does the Islamic State (IS) pose to Western countries? This article looks at what IS has said and done with regard to attacks in the West. We examine IS statements and take stock of IS-related ...

    • Introducing the Jihadi Plots in EuropeDataset (JPED) 

      Nesser, Petter (2023-02-21)
      The article introduces a new dataset on terrorist attack activity by jihadis in Western Europe. The dataset was built over nearly two decades at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. It records not only attacks ...

    • Jihadi Terrorism in Europe: The IS-Effect 

      Nesser, Petter; Stenersen, Anne; Oftedal, Emilie (2016)
      The article examines the extent to which Islamic State (IS) has affected jihadi terrorism in Europe. We look at the scope of attack activity, perpetrators and their networks, modus operandi and funding. For all the talk ...

    • 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 ...

    • The modus operandi of jihadi terrorists in Europe 

      Stenersen, Anne; Nesser, Petter (2014)
      This article provides the most thorough overview yet of how jihadis have plotted terrorist attacks in Europe. Drawing on a database of 122 incidents, we review trends in weapon types, attack types and target types in the ...