Jytte Klausen

Brandeis University, Politics, Faculty Member

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I am the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University. My most recent book is "Western Jihadism: A Thirty-Year History," which was published by Oxford University Press in October 2021. (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/western-jihadism-9780198870791?cc=us
Address: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

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Europe's Real Border Problem

Foreign Affairs, Nov 16, 2015

War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present

The American Historical Review, Feb 1, 2000

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The Islamic Challenge

The Cartoons That Shook the World

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 14, 2017

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The Re-Politicization of Religion in Europe: The Next Ten Years

Perspectives on Politics, Aug 26, 2005

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format_quoteMany Europeans, despite non-attendance, value religion for social support, indicating deeper religious commitments than church attendance suggests.format_quote

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Has liberalism failed women? : assuring equal representation in Europe and the United States

Palgrave eBooks, 2001

claimed that he was a democrat because he believed in the fall of man. He went on to suggest that... more claimed that he was a democrat because he believed in the fall of man. He went on to suggest that it was not that some men did not deserve to be slaves, but that none deserved to be masters. While not exactly the sort of uplifting proclamation that many partisans of democracy would hope to rally their followers around, it does provide those among us who are persuaded that human beings are limited in their capacities to reject vice and sin with an avenue and persuasive rationale to join their ranks. It is with this sort of view in mind that H. Lee Cheek, Jr.'s provocative and cogently argued book on the political thought of John C. Calhoun ought to be read. Broadly speaking, Cheek engages in two general projects in this book. The first is an attempt to get Calhoun right, i.e., to understand him as he understood himself. The second project involves answering the larger question of whether the correctly defined Calhoun was, himself, right. This work succeeds admirably both in its provision of a sustainable interpretation of Calhoun's political theory and in its argument that much of what he theorized remains pertinent and useful. To those who believe that the term "Southern Democrat" is oxymoronic when applied to a supporter of slavery, the latter assertion will no doubt seem quite problematic. Cheek manages to disarm his potential critics, however, through what some may see as a slightly disingenuous strategy of at once narrowing his focus and generalizing his questions. Hence, we are asked to read the Disquisition and the Discourse closely and in the context of the South Atlantic republican tradition, but diverted from asking what the relationship between those works and defense of the South's peculiar institution might have been. Indeed, slavery is barely mentioned, and in a footnote we are told that it is simply "beyond the scope of this book" (n. 37, p. 92). Though others may balk at this, I think that Cheek is on target when he asserts that "defending slavery was not the touchstone of Calhoun's thought" (p. 22) and, furthermore, that it is instructive to note along with him that readers as different and far removed from Calhoun as Stokely Carmichael sought out the Disquisition for theoretical guidance. Still, the question of linkage does remain begged. That having been said about what the author does not attempt, there is much to be said in favor of what he does. According to Cheek, Calhoun's larger goal was to "reconcile the need for popular rule with the ethical preconditions for its survival" (p. ix). After a perfunctory but lucid account of the existing scholarship, Cheek embarks on his constructive project in the second chapter. There we are treated to a persuasive argument that places Calhoun's thought in a direct and quasi-apostolic relationship to the Jefferson of the Kentucky Resolutions and the Madison of the Virginia Resolutions and the Report of 1800. The case is made there that "for Jefferson, Madison, and Calhoun, only the states could adequately represent the people" and that "no other assemblage, and certainly not the population en masse, could represent the needs and diversity of Americans" (p. 56). Rather than the simplistic amalgamation of Calhoun's defense of states rights with a defense of slavery that is often performed by his less thoughtful critics, Cheek portrays it as the foundation of a larger political commitment to diffused power, legisla

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Chapter 7. Danish Intolerance and Foreign Relations

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017

Chapter 8. The Freedom Agenda Rebound

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017

Chapter 2. The Path to a Showdown

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017

From Integration to Culture War

Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2007

Reconstruction and Capitalist Reform

World War II reshaped capitalism and liberal democracy by reordering both the domestic and the in... more World War II reshaped capitalism and liberal democracy by reordering both the domestic and the international order. This book is about the domestic legacy of the war. In belligerent and neutral countries alike, the war years engendered an expansion of state capacities that permanently changed the balance between state and society. When the war ended in 1945, the reconstruction process rested on piecemeal government decisions to remove or retain wartime controls over society and the economy. In the process of making those decisions, governments shaped society and markets in their own image.

Conclusion: Liberal Muslims and the Emergence of European Islam

Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2007

Europas muslimische Eliten: wer sie sind und was sie wollen

... Eine ähnliche Auffassung vertritt Fouad Ajami, der noch besorgniserregendere Konsequenzen vor... more

Introduction: New Perspectives on the Use of Parity Mandates and Quotas to Guarantee Equality between Men and Women

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2001

This book presents to English-speaking readers a concept for assuring group representation—one ba... more This book presents to English-speaking readers a concept for assuring group representation—one based on gender, however, not race or ethnicity—advocated by many in Europe, but generally rejected out of hand in the United States. Contributors discuss the theory and experience of mandating quotas for the presence of women candidates for national office, whether by compelling electoral procedures that will return a fixed number to elective office or by requiring parties to nominate a minimal percentage. The rough analogue in the United States has been “affirmative action,” which has been applied prevailingly to educational admissions, employment opportunity, job contracts, and only indirectly to voting. Quotas for guaranteed representation provide one among several possible measures available to boost the presence of underrepresented groups in public office. Even before the courts began to dismantle affirmative action as constitutionally suspect, advocates of affirmative action in the United States often separated the procedures they supported from the imposition of fixed quotas.

The Danish Cartoons and Modern Iconoclasm in the Cosmopolitan Muslim Diaspora

Two weeks later, the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was presented with two letters... more Two weeks later, the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was presented with two letters. One was a letter of complaint from a group of ambassadors representing eleven Islamic countries in Denmark. A nearly identical letter arrived from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), an intergovernmental organization of ªftyseven Muslim countries, which coordinated the diplomatic protests against the cartoons. Coinciding with the arrival of the letters, three thousand Danish Muslims demonstrated in Copenhagen, demanding an apology from the newspaper for insulting Muslims by printing images of the Prophet. Four months later, violent demonstrations were held from Nepal to Nigeria. The cartoons commanded global attention. Nearly 80 percent of the individuals included in a thirteen-country public-opinion survey conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project in 2006 had heard about the cartoons, a number that rose to 90 percent in Jordan and Egypt and in the four European countries surveyed. The survey also showed an overwhelming inclination to attribute fault to the other side. Muslims thought that Western arrogance was at fault; non-Muslim Westerners thought that Muslims were at fault. 1 The cartoons are still available on many Internet sites. 2 During the conºict, writers in the Western press often argued that Muslims are pious iconoclasts who have their own religious and political reasons for wanting to restrict non-Muslims' use of images. As evidence, they noted that Muslims have engaged in pictorial representation of the Prophet in paintings, posters, and other images and that Christians and nonreligious people cannot be expected to observe norms that

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The Western Jihadism Data Collection

The Western Jihadism Project Data Collection is a web-based database designed to study Al-Qaeda-i... more The Western Jihadism Project Data Collection is a web-based database designed to study Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist offenders in Western Europe, the Antipodes, Canada, and the United States. The project developed a secure online portal for a relational database comprised of qualitative and quantitative data files from the archives of The Western Jihadism Project (WJP). The database began as a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. Since then it has since evolved into a relational database in PostgreSQL and using a Django-based administrative framework for editing the data stored within. The collection also contains numerous audiovisual files including photographs,

format_quoteData includes over 50 variables on jihadism offenders, coded from public sources, supporting complex social network analyses.format_quote

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Counterterrorism and the Integration of Islam in Europe

Revista de Științe Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques, 2010

Chapter 4. Muslims’ ‘‘Day of Rage’’

The Cartoons That Shook the World, 2017

Lone Wolves No More

Foreign Affairs, 2016

3. Art History and the Contemporary Politics of Depicting Muhammad: The Case of the Danish Cartoon Controversy

Muhammad in the Digital Age, 2015

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