Terrorism In The Cold War: State Support In The West, Middle East And Latin America

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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. Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: STATE SUPPORT FOR TERRORIST ACTORS IN THE COLD WAR – MYTHS AND REALITY (PART 2)......Page 8 Chapter 2: GLADIO – MYTH AND REALITY: THE ORIGINS AND FUNCTION OF STAY BEHIND IN THE CASE OF POST-WAR AUSTRIA......Page 22 Chapter 3: THE BRITISH STATE AND LOYALIST PARAMILITARIES IN NORTHERN IRELAND......Page 50 Chapter 4: THE SECRET 1970 MORATORIUM AGREEMENT BETWEEN SWITZERLAND AND THE PLO......Page 70 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......Page 96 Chapter 6: THE LODO MORO: ITALY AND THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION......Page 160 Chapter 7: PACT WITH THE (UN)WANTED?: THE WISCHNEWSKI PROTOCOL AS A SPOTLIGHT FOR AUSTRO–GERMAN ‘AGREEMENTS’ WITH TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISTS IN THE LATE 1970S......Page 182 Chapter 8: HEZBOLLAH AS AN IRANIAN PROXY IN THE AGE OF THE COLD WAR......Page 200 Chapter 9: THE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN FOR THE PFLP IN SWITZERLAND 1969–70......Page 214 Chapter 10: THE UNITED STATES AND NICARAGUA: STATE TERRORISM DURING THE LATE COLD WAR......Page 230 Chapter 11: OUTLOOK: WRITING THE HISTORY OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM – WHERE ARE THE PUZZLES?......Page 244 ABOUT THE AUTHORS......Page 254 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 257 INDEX......Page 264