- Forfatter
- Stenersen, Anne
- Publisert
- 2017
- Emneord
- Terrorisme
- Islamisme
- Permalenke
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12242/859
- https://ffi-publikasjoner.archive.knowledgearc.net/handle/20.500.12242/859
- Samling
- Articles
- Description
- Stenersen, Anne. Thirty years after its foundation – where is al-Qaida going?. Perspectives on Terrorism 2017 ;Volum 11.(6) s. 5-16
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- Sammendrag
- This article presents a framework for understanding al-Qaida, based on a new reading of its thirty-year history. Al-Qaida today is commonly labelled a ‘global insurgency’ or ‘global franchise.’ However, these labels are not sufficient if we want to understand what kind of threat al-Qaida poses to the West. Al-Qaida is better described as a revolutionary vanguard, engaged in a perpetual struggle to further its Salafi-jihadi ideology. Its strategy is flexible and opportunistic, and the organization uses a range of tools associated with both state and non-state actors. In the future al-Qaida is likely to treat international terrorist planning, and support to local insurgencies in the Muslim world, as two separate activities. International terrorism is currently not a prioritised strategy of al-Qaida, but it is likely to be so in the future, given that it manages to re-build its external operations capability.