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To Deter and Punish: Global Collaboration Against Terrorism in the 1970s
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
New York: Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, governments in North America and
Western Europe faced a new transnational threat: militants who
crossed borders with impunity to commit attacks. These violent
actors cooperated in hijacking planes, taking hostages, and
organizing assassinations, often in the name of national liberation
movements from the decolonizing world. How did this form of
political violence become what we know today as "international
terrorism"-lacking in legitimacy and categorized first and foremost
as a crime? To Deter and Punish examines why and how the
United States and its Western European allies came to treat
nonstate "terrorists" as a key threat to their security and
interests. Drawing on a multinational array of sources, Silke
Zoller traces Western state officials' attempts to control the
meaning of and responses to terrorism from the first Palestinian
hijacking in 1968 to Ronald Reagan's militarization of
counterterrorism in the early 1980s. She details how Western states
sought to criminalize border-crossing nonstate violence-and thus
delegitimized offenders' political aspirations. U.S. and European
officials pressured states around the world to join agreements
requiring them to create and enforce criminal laws against alleged
individual terrorists. Zoller underscores how recently decolonized
states countered that only a more equitable global system capable
of addressing political grievances would end the violence. To
Deter and Punish offers a new account of the emergence of
modern counterterrorism that pinpoints its international
dimensions-a story about diplomats and bureaucrats as well as
national liberation militancy and the processes of decolonization.