Terrorism in the Cold War

State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America

Adrian Hänni, Thomas Riegler, Przemyslaw Gasztold (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-3655-6 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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.

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.

1. Introduction – State Support for Terrorist Actors in the Cold War: Myths and Reality (Part 2) - Adrian Hänni
2. Gladio – Myth and Reality: The Origins and Function of Stay Behind in the Case of Post-war Austria - Thomas Riegler
3. The British State and Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland - Andrew Sanders
4. The Secret 1970 Moratorium Agreement between Switzerland and the PLO - Marcel Gyr
5. 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-Robinson
6. The Lodo Moro: Italy and the Palestine Liberation Organization - Tobias Hof
7. Pact with the (Un)wanted? The Wischnewski Protocol as a Spotlight for Austro-German “Agreements” with Transnational Terrorists in the Late 1970s - Matthias Dahlke
8. Hezbollah as an Iranian Proxy in the Age of the Cold War - Ryszard M. Machnikowski
9. The Propaganda Campaign for the PFLP in Switzerland 1969-1970 - Daniel Rickenbacher
10. The United States and Nicaragua: State Terrorism during the Late Cold War - Philip W. Travis
11. Outlook – Writing the History of Modern International Terrorism: Where Are the Puzzles? -. Thomas Wegener Friis, Adi Frimark and Martin Göllnitz

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2022
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7556-3655-4 / 0755636554
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-3655-6 / 9780755636556
Zustand	Neuware