Analysis:
My contribution to the Soufan Group’s series of intelbriefs on the 20 year anniversary of the 9/11: “IntelBrief: The Evolution of the Global Jihadist Movement from a One-Headed Monster to a Hydra”, 30 July 2021. Read here
Fremtrædende eksperter: Sådan skal vi tackle børnene og mødrene fra Syrien, når de kommer hjem, kronik i Politiken, 18 May 2021. Read here (in Danish)
The Failure of Jihadi Conflict Resolution, War on the Rocks, 15 February 2021. Read here
The Islamic State in Mozambique, Lawfare Blog, 24 January 2021. Read here
The Islamic State 2020: The Year in Review, Jihadica, 31 December 2020. Read here
A Brief Note on the Spike in Intra-Sahelian Conflict in Light of al-Naba, Jihadica, 19 November 2020. Read here
Striving for Hegemony: The HTS Crackdown on al-Qaida and Friends in Northwest Syria, Jihadica, 15 September 2020. Read here
The 2016 Copenhagen ‘Matchstick’ Terror Plot and the Evolving Transnational Character of Terrorism in the West, CTC Sentinel Vol. 12 Issue 11, December 2019. Read here
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Internal Conflict and Renewed Tensions with Hurras al-Deen, Jihadica, 15 February 2019. Read here
The Hardline Stream of Global Jihad: Revisiting the Ideological Origin of the Islamic State, CTC Sentinel, January 2019, Vol 12, issue 1. Read here
ISIS’s charm offensive toward al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Middle East Institute brief, 13 December 2018. Read here
When Jihadis Kill Jihadis: The Implications of Militant Infighting, World Policy Review, 13 December 2018. Read here
Why did the Jihadi Cold War in Yemen End?, War on the Rocks, 7 November 2018. Read here
How Turkey and the election of Erdogan are fragmenting the Jihadi movement, Jihadica, 6 July 2018. Read here
With Islamic State in Decline, what’s al-Qaeda’s next move?, War on the Rocks, 27 April 2018. Read here
The True Story of al-Qaeda’s Demise and Resurgence in Syria (With Pieter Van Ostaeyen), Lawfare Blog, 8 April 2018. Read here
Jihadists Respond to Trump: “In al-Quds we meet”, ICCT, 2 February 2018, co-authored with Pieter van Ostaeyen. Read here
Tore Hamming om fremtidens Saudi-Arabien: Mere moderat, men også mere autokratisk?, Ræson, 20 January 2018. Read here (in Danish)
The Wider Jihadi Movement Will Take Over Where the Islamic State Left Off, World Policy Review, 29 November 2017. Read here
Abu al-Qassam: Zarqawi’s right-hand man who stayed loyal to al-Qaida, Jihadica, 20 November 2017. Read here
What we learned from Sami al-Uraydi’s testimony concerning Abu Abdullah al-Shami, Jihadica, 24 October 2017. Read here
The day after ISIS: the Middle East after the Islamic State in The future of the Jihadi movement series, BICOM, 31 July 2017. Read here
Hvorfor vi ikke er ved at vinde krigen mod terror og militant islamisme, Ræson, 19 May 2017. Read here (in Danish)
Zawahiri is Not the Loser People Think he is, Jihadica, 18 March 2017. Read here
Terrorforsker: Al-Qaeda har taget fusen på os alle, Ræson, 16 November 2016. Read here (in Danish)
Five part interview series with Ahmed al-Hamdan, September to November 2016. Read part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five
The Extremist Wing of the Islamic State, Jihadica, 9 June 2016. Read here
The al-Qaida - Islamic State Rivalry: Analysing Zawahiri’s bay’ah to Mullah Mansoor, CTC Sentinel, May 2016, co-authored with Olivier Roy. Read here
The Importance of the political opposition: Introduction to the opposition that threatens the Saudi Royal Family, IPMonopolet, 18. Issue, March 2013. Institute for Political Sciences at University of Copenhagen. Read here
The Arab League: From autocratic club to international peace maker, IPMonopolet, 16. Issue, June 2012. Institute for Political Science at University of Copenhagen. Read here
Commentary:
Homegrowns – ikke fremmedkrigere – udgør den største terrortrussel i Danmark og i Vesten, kronik i Berlingske, 1 February 2021. Read here (in Danish)
QAnons profeti gik ikke i opfyldelse. Erfaringer fra Islamisk Stat fortæller os, hvad der sker med bevægelsen nu, Zetland, 25 January 2021. Read here (in Danish)
Kalifatets løveunger: Islamisk Stats børn og frygten for radikalisering, kronik i Politiken, 18 August 2019. Read here (in Danish)
Nuanceret jihad, indlæg i Weekendavisen, 19 April 2018. Read here