Title: Terrorism in context /
Authors: Crenshaw, Martha.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Terrorism Congresses; Terrorism History Congresses.
Abstract: "An interdisciplinary investigation of the phenomenon of terrorism in its political, social, and economic context as it has occurred throughout the world from the nineteenth century to the present. Acts of violence committed by terrorists have become a staple of news reports in modern times, from hijackings to bombings, kidnappings to assassinations. How are we to understand both the causes and the consequences of these disturbing events? The key, this volume of original essays shows, lies in linking terrorism to the different contexts--historical, political, social, and economic--in which it occurs. The fourteen contributors to this volume--historians, political scientists, and sociologists--provide the expertise to explain the continuities and discontinuities in the development of this form of violent political action in a variety of contexts. They link terrorism to the pattern of relations between state and society and between government and oppositions.^
Contents: Thoughts on relating terrorism to historical contexts / Martha Crenshaw -- The intellectual origins of modern terrorism in Europe / Martin A. Miller -- Russian revolutionary terrorism / Philip Pomper -- Left-wing terrorism in Italy / Donatella della Porta -- West German left-wing terrorism / Peter H. Merkl -- Political violence in Argentina: guerrillas, terrorists, and carapintadas / Richard Gillespie -- The revolutionary terrorism of Peru's Shining Path / David Scott Palmer -- The culture of paramilitarism in Ireland / Charles Townsend -- Political violence and terrorism in India: the crisis of identity / Paul Wallace -- Political violence in a democratic state: Basque terrorism in Spain / Goldie Shabad and Francisco Jose Llera Ramo -- The effectiveness of terrorism in the Algerian war / Martha Crenshaw -- Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli conflict: targets and audiences / Ian S. Lustick -- Terrorism and politics in Iran / Jerrold D. Green -- Terrorism in the context of academic research / Michael Wieviorka.