Peter R. Neumann

Peter Neumann, 2015

Peter R. Neumann (born December 4, 1974 in Würzburg ) is a German political scientist and journalist .

Life

Neumann comes from Würzburg . Since 1993 he has worked as a freelance radio journalist, a. a. for Deutsche Welle . He studied political science in Berlin and Belfast , completed his studies in politics at the Free University of Berlin with a master's degree and received his doctorate from King's College London .

Neumann has been director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King's College in London since 2008 . He is considered an expert on Islamist terror . For his research, Neumann evaluated the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram profiles of British people who fight as jihadists in Syria and Iraq. He collected a data set of 700 European jihadists, 85 percent of whom fight for the "Islamic State ". The attack on Charlie Hebdo and the attacks in Copenhagen in early 2015 are examples of what will happen in the next few years and decades: "Europe is facing a new wave of terrorism that will keep us busy for a generation," said Neumann.

Books

• The new jihadists. IS, Europe and the next wave of terrorism. Ullstein, Berlin 2015, ISBN 9783430202039 .
• Terror is among us. Jihadism and radicalization in Europe. Ullstein, Berlin 2016, ISBN 9783550081538 .
• Joining al-Qaeda: Jihadist Recruitment in Europe. Adelphi Book, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), ISBN 978-1138452145

Web links

Commons : Peter R. Neumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of Peter R. Neumann on the website of King's College London (English)
• Literature by and about Peter R. Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter R. Neumann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Peter Neumann: radicalization, deradicalization and extremism . In: From Politics and Contemporary History (APUZ 29–31 / 2013), Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), July 9, 2013

Footnotes

1. ↑ Sabine am Orde: Islamist researcher on “Charlie Hebdo”: “Not the last event of this kind” . In: the daily newspaper . January 9, 2015 (interview)
2. ↑ Laura Cwiertnia: "Islamic State": "Terrorism is a youth culture" . In: Zeit Campus . No. 5, August 11, 2015 (interview)
3. ↑ Vincenzo Capodici: “Europe is at the beginning of a new wave of terrorism” . In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 19, 2015 (interview)