Poisoned chalice: the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and the globalised jihad

Dr Alia Brahimi is Global Security Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she also runs the North Africa Research Programme. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Formerly a Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Alia also read for her MPhil and DPhil in International Relations at Oxford. Her forthcoming book, entitled Jihad and Just war in the War on Terror (OUP: September 2010), examines the Bush administration and al-Qaeda's arguments for war in the context of the western and Islamic just war traditions.