Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America

Author:   Adrian Hänni (Distance Learning University, Switzerland) ,  Thomas Riegler (University of Graz) ,  Przemyslaw Gasztold (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   24 March 2022
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Adrian Hänni (Distance Learning University, Switzerland) ,  Thomas Riegler (University of Graz) ,  Przemyslaw Gasztold (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9780755636556


ISBN 10:   0755636554
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   24 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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. * Frederic Lemieux, Professor, Georgetown University * Overall, the two volumes of Terrorism in the Cold War represent an important ontological contribution to our understanding of why and how state interact and, in some cases, create alliances with violent non-state actors. The volumes of essay will be of interest to all those looking to appreciate the complexity of state-terrorist relations and grasp the paradoxes born out of these liaisons ... By using new evidence to reconnect the dots on state-terrorist relations, these essays help us rethink what we know about the international history of terrorism as well as the Cold War * Intelligence & National Security *


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. * Frederic Lemieux, Professor, Georgetown University *


Author Information

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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