Lars Erslev Andersen

MA, History of Ideas/Middle East Studies
Senior researcher, Head of the research unit on The Middle East
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Expertise

Lars Erslev Andersen's research focuses on the history of terrorism, al-Qaida, the relationship between rebellion and terrorism, and USA's Middle East politics. He has written books and articles on philosophy, terrorism, and political order as well as on the Middle East. Presently he is writing a book on the intellectual history of terrorism

Selected projects and programmes

The Concepts of Terrorism and Order in International Relation.

U.S. Security Policy and Counterterrorism strategies.

The History of the Afghan-Arabs and the roots of al-Qaida ideology.

Selected publications

Innocence Lost: Islamism and the Battle over Values and World Order (University Press of Southern Denmark 2007).

Al-Qaidas styrke og sårbarhed. Salafisme og krigen mod terror, in Historisk Tidsskrift Bind 109, Hæfte 1, København 2009.

Piracy in the Gulf of Aden: Reflections on the Concepts of Piracy and Order, in Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2009, DIIS 2009.

Fra Christian Identity til Aryan Jihad - om amerikansk terrorismes baggrund i højreekstremisme (From Christian Identity to Aryan Jihad), in Den Jyske Historiker nr. 115 2007.

In the Name of God. The Afghan Connection and the U.S. War against Terrorism. The Story of the Afghan Veterans as the masterminds behind 9/11 (University Press of Southern Denmark 2005), with Jan Aagaard.

Selected commissioned work

Country and Thematic Studies on the Middle East for the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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