Terrorism in the Cold War

State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America

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• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780755636556
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780755600281
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• Chapter 1 Introduction: State support for terrorist actors in the Cold War – myths and reality (Part 2)
• Chapter 2 Gladio – myth and reality: The origins and function of stay behind in the case of post-war Austria
• Chapter 3 The British state and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
• Chapter 4 The secret 1970 moratorium agreement between Switzerland and the PLO
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 6 The Lodo Moro: Italy and the Palestine Liberation Organization
• Chapter 7 Pact with the (un)wanted? The Wischnewski Protocol as a spotlight for Austro–German ‘agreements’ with transnational terrorists in the late 1970s
• Chapter 8 Hezbollah as an Iranian proxy in the Age of the Cold War
• Chapter 9 The propaganda campaign for the PFLP in Switzerland 1969–70
• Chapter 10 The United States and Nicaragua: State terrorism during the late Cold War
• Chapter 11 Outlook: Writing the history of modern international terrorism – Where are the puzzles?
• About the Authors
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright