Terrorism in the Cold War

State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last few years, however, things have evolved rapidly. Using a wide range of case studies including the British State and Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, as well as the United States and Nicaragua, this book sheds new light on the relations between state and terrorist actors, allowing for a fresh and much more insightful assessment of the contacts, dealings, agreements and collusion with terrorist organizations undertaken by state actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain.This book presents the current state of research and provides an assessment of the nature, motives, effects, and major historical shifts of the relations between individual states and terrorist organizations. The articles collected demonstrate that these state-terrorism relationships were not only much more ambiguous than much of the older literature had suggested but are, in fact, crucial for the understanding of global political history in the Cold War era.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-24
Mått:152 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780755636556

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Adrian Hänni is Lecturer for Political History at Distance Learning University, Switzerland. He was previously postdoctoral fellow at University of Leiden and Lecturer in History at University of Zurich. He holds a PhD from University of Zurich. Thomas Riegler is an Affiliate Researcher at the Austrian Centre for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies at the University of Graz. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the academic journal Perspectives on Terrorism. Przemyslaw Gasztold is a research fellow at the Historic Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. He received his Ph.D. from Warsaw University in 2016.

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This book offers a distinctive and thorough perspective on terrorism during the Cold War era through case study analysis as well as access to unique historical material.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction – State Support for Terrorist Actors in the Cold War: Myths and Reality (Part 2) - Adrian Hänni2. Gladio – Myth and Reality: The Origins and Function of Stay Behind in the Case of Post-war Austria - Thomas Riegler3. The British State and Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland - Andrew Sanders4. The Secret 1970 Moratorium Agreement between Switzerland and the PLO - Marcel Gyr5. The Road Not Taken: Crisis Management, Dialogues and Deal-Making with Palestinian Fedayeen Groups in the Context of the Jordanian Triple-Hijacking Incident of September 1970 - Thomas Skelton-Robinson6. The Lodo Moro: Italy and the Palestine Liberation Organization - Tobias Hof7. Pact with the (Un)wanted? The Wischnewski Protocol as a Spotlight for Austro-German “Agreements” with Transnational Terrorists in the Late 1970s - Matthias Dahlke8. Hezbollah as an Iranian Proxy in the Age of the Cold War - Ryszard M. Machnikowski9. The Propaganda Campaign for the PFLP in Switzerland 1969-1970 - Daniel Rickenbacher10. The United States and Nicaragua: State Terrorism during the Late Cold War - Philip W. Travis11. Outlook – Writing the History of Modern International Terrorism: Where Are the Puzzles? -. Thomas Wegener Friis, Adi Frimark and Martin Göllnitz