Thomas Hegghammer, senior fellow at the Norwegian Defense Research Institute, discusses his research on violent jihadists in Saudi Arabia, and their failure to overthrow the Saudi system

Thomas Hegghammer, senior fellow at the Norwegian Defense Research Institute, discusses his research on violent jihadists in Saudi Arabia and their failure to overthrow the Saudi system.  He is the author of  "Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979."

Hegghammer is currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and an associate at Harvard Kennedy School.  He holds a doctorate in political science from Sciences-Po in Paris and a masters of arts and masters of philosophy in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University.  Hegghammer's research focuses on jihadi ideology, jihadism on the Arabian Peninsula and the history of the foreign fighter phenomenon.

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