The Future of Jihad

The peak of al Qaeda activity in the West has passed, but there is likely to be a second, low-level campaign of al Qaeda terrorism in the future, argues Thomas Hegghammer. Hegghammer is the Zukerman fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He noted that following the death of Osama bin Laden, Western-oriented global jihadism is on the decline, though some ideologues will want to finish what bin Laden started. Hegghammer made his remarks at a CSIS Middle East Program roundtable entitled “The Future of Jihad” on February 28, 2013.