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Thomas Hegghammer
Researcher at Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
Publications - 43
Citations - 1603
Thomas Hegghammer is an academic researcher from Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. The author has contributed to research in topics: Jihadism & Terrorism. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 42 publications receiving 1478 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Hegghammer include University of Oslo.
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Variation in Western Jihadists’ Choice between Domestic and Foreign Fighting
TL;DR: Hegghammer, Thomas as mentioned in this paper, explains variation in Western Jihadists' choice between domestic and foreign fighting between Jihadists and Jihadists in the Middle East and North Africa.
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The Rise of Muslim Foreign Fighters: Islam and the Globalization of Jihad
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain the increase in transnational war volunteering as the product of a pan-Islamic identity movement that grew strong in the 1970s Arab world from elite competition among exiled Islamists in international Islamic organizations and Muslim regimes.
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Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979
TL;DR: The politics of pan-Islamism as mentioned in this paper, the classical jihadists, recruitment to the early jihad fronts, and the failure of the jihad in Arabia Conclusion: The failure of Jihad in Arabia
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Rejectionist islamism in saudi arabia: the story of juhayman al-'utaybi revisited
TL;DR: The authors examines the origin and legacy of the rebel group that stormed the great Mecca mosque in November 1979 and concludes that the rebels represented a radicalized faction of a large pietistic organization established in Medina in the mid-1960s under the name al-Jama a al-Salafiyya al-Muhtasiba (JSM).