Stig Jarle Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 376512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stig Jarle Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stig Jarle |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-9373-7699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Counterinsurgency in the age of geopolitics: A new dawn or a new death
Conclusions, counter-insurgency in the age of geopolitics
Spectres of Black Flags in the Miombo: The Islamic State's coverage of their Mozambique province, 2022-2023
This article studies the Islamic State's only remaining periodical, Al-Naba, identifying the most common tropes and patterns in the periodical's Sub-Saharan Africa coverage, and on Mozambique in particular. The Islamic State's increasingly important coverage of Africa focuses on terror attacks, military campaigns and on the fight against Christianity. However, it also employs more traditional anti-colonial arguments that have been used by other, …
Mosaic; counter-insurgency approaches and the war against the Islamic state in Mozambique
Forever wars'? Patterns of diffusion and consolidation of Jihadism in Africa
The article will discuss the patterns that jihadism has followed when spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa, addressing the major scholarly debates but also to bring forward the elements that various African cases seemingly have in common. The discussions over African Jihadism has seen several great debates, over the ungoverned space theory, a dichotomous discussion of the local and the global as opposing explanatory models, and a discussion of…
Striving for the Impossible? Policing and Territoriality in the Age of the War on Terror
This article asks how variations of state territorial control have influenced police missions in the recent past, and illustrate how recent police reforms were based on the structure of a ‘western’ type state with clearly identifiable formal state institutions enjoying autonomy, that strive for a form of territorial monopoly over violence. The article argues for moving beyond such assumptions by adopting scenarios based on how territory is contro…
Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa
Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement
Territoriality of radical Islam: Comparative Analysis of Jihadist Groups' Approach to Territory
The paper compares political territoriality of selected jihadist violent non-state actors. Looking at selected groups that attempted to control territory (Afghan Taliban, Al-Shabaab, the Islamic State), it attempts to establish a generalization regarding the use of territory by this type of violent non-state actors. To this end, it analyses connection of territory to groups ́ security provision, economic activity, and identity. Despite many diffe…
They are from within us: CVE brokerage in South-central Somalia
This article explores how societal actors in Somalia take part in a transnational politics of countering/preventing violent extremism (CVE/PVE) through a political sociological approach to militarisation. We argue that the transnational politics of CVE represents an extension of global militarism by some states, institutions, donors and brokers. CVE works to adapt global militarism and to reconfigure the global-local relationships that sustain it…
Unity Under Allah? Cohesion Mechanisms in Jihadist Organizations in Africa
This article explores mechanisms fostering cohesion in jihadist organizations in relation to territorial presence. This article takes four types of territorial presence as its point of departure: (1) a clandestine network-based presence; (2) an accepted presence where the organization is tolerated by a state; (3) a semiterritorial presence, where the organization is allowed some control between phases of enemy offensives and withdrawals; and (4) …
Setting the Stage
In Somalia a resurgence in the importance of religion paved the way for Al-Shabaab. This chapter elaborates on the conditions in Somalia that, through a rise in the importance of religion, paved the way for the sharia courts of Mogadishu, which in turn paved the way for Al-Shabaab. It tells the story of how the ideologies of the 70s, 80s and 90s, socialism, nationalism and clanism, were delegitimized and how warlords in the end failed to maintain…
Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012
This book explores the history of the Somalia based Al Harakat Al Shabaab from 2005 to 2012, offering the first in-detail history of one of the most important Al-Qaeda affiliates today and the first to conquer large territories. It anchors the organization in its local context, describing it as set in the nexus of global and local streams of influence, employing terror strategically, often in order to offset diplomatic and military defeats. Al-Sh…
Yemeni security-political dynamics and maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region
When analysing maritime security issues and Yemen, emphasis tends to be on the state weakness of Yemen and its ‘4.5’ conflicts. While keeping the conflicts in the analysis, this article changes focus and argues that Yemen's position along two maritime highways and situated in two regional ‘cold wars’ should not be neglected
International Interventions, State-Building and Democratization: Justifying the Role of the Private Security Companies in Somalia
This article explores how private security companies may gain advantages from liberal peace narratives on state-building, democratization, and global governance. It supports this claim by drawing on the example of peacemaking efforts in Somalia and argues that the predominant narratives surrounding such interventions have helped to both change the type of PSCs engaged in Somalia and create a safer and stable environment for those private security…
The Dynamics of Somali Piracy 1
By drawing upon information gathered from interviews with pirates as well as statistics this article explores the major traits of contemporary piracy in Somalia and the how they developed. Criminal maritime groups in the country have traditionally been the product of the actions and decisions of individual actors, although the current wave of activity is more the result of the weakening of political institutions. In all cases syndicates are drive…
Present Day Piracy: Scope, Dimensions, Dangers, and Causes
Why has international piracy re-emerged as a threat to international shipping? The article introduces the factors that influence modern piracy, and explore the causes of it in more general terms. This introduction provides an overview of the scope and dimensions of modern-day piracy. It looks at problems of definition, statistics, location of attacks and main drivers. The article suggests that there is a limited set of geographical clusters that …
The Evolution of Best Management Practices in the Civil Maritime Sector
How does a sector consisting of a variety of owners cooperate to create effective anti-piracy tactics? This article describes how security strategies in the shipping industry have evolved, worked and what lessons need to be applied when formulating responses to future threat contingencies
The impact of private security companies on Somalia's governance networks
The article discusses the use of private security contractors to support coastguard forces in the Somali substate entities of Puntland and Somaliland. Neither of these entities is sufficiently robust to raise and maintain an effective maritime security force without external assistance, hence they have had recourse to the private sector for training, logistical and operational support and high-level consultancy with respect to their coastguards. …
Private Security & Local Politics in Somalia
The use of private security by weak states is often seen to erode state power and prevent national institution building. This article investigates the use of private military force in Somalia and the three different entities that exercise political authority within this geographically defined territory, namely the Transitional Federal Government, Puntland, and Somaliland. All three have contracted private security companies, primarily to prevent …
Somaliland: A New Democracy in the Horn of Africa
With a constitutionally-based and popularly elected government, the Republic of Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, has a democratic system matched by few other countries in Africa and the Middle East. However, Somaliland's independence has not been recognised internationally. Moreover developments in neighbouring countries suggest that people in Somaliland will face serious challenges in entrenching a democratic political system. …
Somaliland: A New Democracy in the Horn of Africa
With a constitutionally-based and popularly elected government, the Republic of Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, has a democratic system matched by few other countries in Africa and the Middle East. However, Somaliland's independence has not been recognised internationally. Moreover developments in neighbouring countries suggest that people in Somaliland will face serious challenges in entrenching a democratic political system. …
Unity Under Allah? Cohesion Mechanisms in Jihadist Organizations in Africa
This article explores mechanisms fostering cohesion in jihadist organizations in relation to territorial presence. This article takes four types of territorial presence as its point of departure: (1) a clandestine network-based presence; (2) an accepted presence where the organization is tolerated by a state; (3) a semiterritorial presence, where the organization is allowed some control between phases of enemy offensives and withdrawals; and (4) …
The Dynamics of Somali Piracy 1
By drawing upon information gathered from interviews with pirates as well as statistics this article explores the major traits of contemporary piracy in Somalia and the how they developed. Criminal maritime groups in the country have traditionally been the product of the actions and decisions of individual actors, although the current wave of activity is more the result of the weakening of political institutions. In all cases syndicates are drive…
Private Security & Local Politics in Somalia
The use of private security by weak states is often seen to erode state power and prevent national institution building. This article investigates the use of private military force in Somalia and the three different entities that exercise political authority within this geographically defined territory, namely the Transitional Federal Government, Puntland, and Somaliland. All three have contracted private security companies, primarily to prevent …
They are from within us: CVE brokerage in South-central Somalia
This article explores how societal actors in Somalia take part in a transnational politics of countering/preventing violent extremism (CVE/PVE) through a political sociological approach to militarisation. We argue that the transnational politics of CVE represents an extension of global militarism by some states, institutions, donors and brokers. CVE works to adapt global militarism and to reconfigure the global-local relationships that sustain it…
The impact of private security companies on Somalia's governance networks
The article discusses the use of private security contractors to support coastguard forces in the Somali substate entities of Puntland and Somaliland. Neither of these entities is sufficiently robust to raise and maintain an effective maritime security force without external assistance, hence they have had recourse to the private sector for training, logistical and operational support and high-level consultancy with respect to their coastguards. …
The Evolution of Best Management Practices in the Civil Maritime Sector
How does a sector consisting of a variety of owners cooperate to create effective anti-piracy tactics? This article describes how security strategies in the shipping industry have evolved, worked and what lessons need to be applied when formulating responses to future threat contingencies
Present Day Piracy: Scope, Dimensions, Dangers, and Causes
Why has international piracy re-emerged as a threat to international shipping? The article introduces the factors that influence modern piracy, and explore the causes of it in more general terms. This introduction provides an overview of the scope and dimensions of modern-day piracy. It looks at problems of definition, statistics, location of attacks and main drivers. The article suggests that there is a limited set of geographical clusters that …
Mosaic; counter-insurgency approaches and the war against the Islamic state in Mozambique
Conclusions, counter-insurgency in the age of geopolitics
Forever wars'? Patterns of diffusion and consolidation of Jihadism in Africa
The article will discuss the patterns that jihadism has followed when spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa, addressing the major scholarly debates but also to bring forward the elements that various African cases seemingly have in common. The discussions over African Jihadism has seen several great debates, over the ungoverned space theory, a dichotomous discussion of the local and the global as opposing explanatory models, and a discussion of…
Striving for the Impossible? Policing and Territoriality in the Age of the War on Terror
This article asks how variations of state territorial control have influenced police missions in the recent past, and illustrate how recent police reforms were based on the structure of a ‘western’ type state with clearly identifiable formal state institutions enjoying autonomy, that strive for a form of territorial monopoly over violence. The article argues for moving beyond such assumptions by adopting scenarios based on how territory is contro…
Territoriality of radical Islam: Comparative Analysis of Jihadist Groups' Approach to Territory
The paper compares political territoriality of selected jihadist violent non-state actors. Looking at selected groups that attempted to control territory (Afghan Taliban, Al-Shabaab, the Islamic State), it attempts to establish a generalization regarding the use of territory by this type of violent non-state actors. To this end, it analyses connection of territory to groups ́ security provision, economic activity, and identity. Despite many diffe…
Yemeni security-political dynamics and maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region
When analysing maritime security issues and Yemen, emphasis tends to be on the state weakness of Yemen and its ‘4.5’ conflicts. While keeping the conflicts in the analysis, this article changes focus and argues that Yemen's position along two maritime highways and situated in two regional ‘cold wars’ should not be neglected
International Interventions, State-Building and Democratization: Justifying the Role of the Private Security Companies in Somalia
This article explores how private security companies may gain advantages from liberal peace narratives on state-building, democratization, and global governance. It supports this claim by drawing on the example of peacemaking efforts in Somalia and argues that the predominant narratives surrounding such interventions have helped to both change the type of PSCs engaged in Somalia and create a safer and stable environment for those private security…
Somaliland: A New Democracy in the Horn of Africa
With a constitutionally-based and popularly elected government, the Republic of Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, has a democratic system matched by few other countries in Africa and the Middle East. However, Somaliland's independence has not been recognised internationally. Moreover developments in neighbouring countries suggest that people in Somaliland will face serious challenges in entrenching a democratic political system. …
Private Security & Local Politics in Somalia
The use of private security by weak states is often seen to erode state power and prevent national institution building. This article investigates the use of private military force in Somalia and the three different entities that exercise political authority within this geographically defined territory, namely the Transitional Federal Government, Puntland, and Somaliland. All three have contracted private security companies, primarily to prevent …
The impact of private security companies on Somalia's governance networks
The article discusses the use of private security contractors to support coastguard forces in the Somali substate entities of Puntland and Somaliland. Neither of these entities is sufficiently robust to raise and maintain an effective maritime security force without external assistance, hence they have had recourse to the private sector for training, logistical and operational support and high-level consultancy with respect to their coastguards. …
Yemeni security-political dynamics and maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region
When analysing maritime security issues and Yemen, emphasis tends to be on the state weakness of Yemen and its ‘4.5’ conflicts. While keeping the conflicts in the analysis, this article changes focus and argues that Yemen's position along two maritime highways and situated in two regional ‘cold wars’ should not be neglected
International Interventions, State-Building and Democratization: Justifying the Role of the Private Security Companies in Somalia
This article explores how private security companies may gain advantages from liberal peace narratives on state-building, democratization, and global governance. It supports this claim by drawing on the example of peacemaking efforts in Somalia and argues that the predominant narratives surrounding such interventions have helped to both change the type of PSCs engaged in Somalia and create a safer and stable environment for those private security…
The Dynamics of Somali Piracy 1
By drawing upon information gathered from interviews with pirates as well as statistics this article explores the major traits of contemporary piracy in Somalia and the how they developed. Criminal maritime groups in the country have traditionally been the product of the actions and decisions of individual actors, although the current wave of activity is more the result of the weakening of political institutions. In all cases syndicates are drive…
Present Day Piracy: Scope, Dimensions, Dangers, and Causes
Why has international piracy re-emerged as a threat to international shipping? The article introduces the factors that influence modern piracy, and explore the causes of it in more general terms. This introduction provides an overview of the scope and dimensions of modern-day piracy. It looks at problems of definition, statistics, location of attacks and main drivers. The article suggests that there is a limited set of geographical clusters that …
The Evolution of Best Management Practices in the Civil Maritime Sector
How does a sector consisting of a variety of owners cooperate to create effective anti-piracy tactics? This article describes how security strategies in the shipping industry have evolved, worked and what lessons need to be applied when formulating responses to future threat contingencies
Setting the Stage
In Somalia a resurgence in the importance of religion paved the way for Al-Shabaab. This chapter elaborates on the conditions in Somalia that, through a rise in the importance of religion, paved the way for the sharia courts of Mogadishu, which in turn paved the way for Al-Shabaab. It tells the story of how the ideologies of the 70s, 80s and 90s, socialism, nationalism and clanism, were delegitimized and how warlords in the end failed to maintain…
Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012
This book explores the history of the Somalia based Al Harakat Al Shabaab from 2005 to 2012, offering the first in-detail history of one of the most important Al-Qaeda affiliates today and the first to conquer large territories. It anchors the organization in its local context, describing it as set in the nexus of global and local streams of influence, employing terror strategically, often in order to offset diplomatic and military defeats. Al-Sh…
Unity Under Allah? Cohesion Mechanisms in Jihadist Organizations in Africa
This article explores mechanisms fostering cohesion in jihadist organizations in relation to territorial presence. This article takes four types of territorial presence as its point of departure: (1) a clandestine network-based presence; (2) an accepted presence where the organization is tolerated by a state; (3) a semiterritorial presence, where the organization is allowed some control between phases of enemy offensives and withdrawals; and (4) …
Territoriality of radical Islam: Comparative Analysis of Jihadist Groups' Approach to Territory
The paper compares political territoriality of selected jihadist violent non-state actors. Looking at selected groups that attempted to control territory (Afghan Taliban, Al-Shabaab, the Islamic State), it attempts to establish a generalization regarding the use of territory by this type of violent non-state actors. To this end, it analyses connection of territory to groups ́ security provision, economic activity, and identity. Despite many diffe…
They are from within us: CVE brokerage in South-central Somalia
This article explores how societal actors in Somalia take part in a transnational politics of countering/preventing violent extremism (CVE/PVE) through a political sociological approach to militarisation. We argue that the transnational politics of CVE represents an extension of global militarism by some states, institutions, donors and brokers. CVE works to adapt global militarism and to reconfigure the global-local relationships that sustain it…
Striving for the Impossible? Policing and Territoriality in the Age of the War on Terror
This article asks how variations of state territorial control have influenced police missions in the recent past, and illustrate how recent police reforms were based on the structure of a ‘western’ type state with clearly identifiable formal state institutions enjoying autonomy, that strive for a form of territorial monopoly over violence. The article argues for moving beyond such assumptions by adopting scenarios based on how territory is contro…
Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa
Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement
Forever wars'? Patterns of diffusion and consolidation of Jihadism in Africa
The article will discuss the patterns that jihadism has followed when spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa, addressing the major scholarly debates but also to bring forward the elements that various African cases seemingly have in common. The discussions over African Jihadism has seen several great debates, over the ungoverned space theory, a dichotomous discussion of the local and the global as opposing explanatory models, and a discussion of…
Spectres of Black Flags in the Miombo: The Islamic State's coverage of their Mozambique province, 2022-2023
This article studies the Islamic State's only remaining periodical, Al-Naba, identifying the most common tropes and patterns in the periodical's Sub-Saharan Africa coverage, and on Mozambique in particular. The Islamic State's increasingly important coverage of Africa focuses on terror attacks, military campaigns and on the fight against Christianity. However, it also employs more traditional anti-colonial arguments that have been used by other, …
Mosaic; counter-insurgency approaches and the war against the Islamic state in Mozambique
Counterinsurgency in the age of geopolitics: A new dawn or a new death
Conclusions, counter-insurgency in the age of geopolitics
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