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Book SynopsisTo Deter and Punish examines why and how the United States and its Western European allies came to treat nonstate “terrorists” as a key threat. Silke Zoller traces Western state officials’ responses to terrorism from the first Palestinian hijacking in 1968 to Ronald Reagan’s militarization of counterterrorism in the early 1980s.
Trade ReviewSilke Zoller’s book is an empirically rich and diverse analysis of early international efforts against terrorism. The breadth and depth of this study will make it key reading for anybody interested in terrorism during this period and how states worked together (or not) to counter it. -- Bernhard Blumenau, author of
The United Nations and Terrorism: Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970sTerrorism did not begin with 9/11. Just ask Archduke Ferdinand, Guy Fawkes, and the like. Our current conception, however, arose in the 1960s and 1970s, as Silke Zoller smartly and insightfully recounts in this new history of the international community’s response to one of the defining international problems of their day, and of ours. -- Jeffrey A. Engel, author of
When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold WarZoller provides a well-researched account of the national and multinational efforts to counter the surge of international terrorism in the ‘long 1970s.’ Detailed and well-researched,
To Deter and Punish brings together several elements of a complex history into a coherent narrative that connects to several strands in recent historiographical developments. -- Jussi Hanhimäki, author of
The United Nations: A Very Short IntroductionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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Introduction
1. From Anticolonial to Criminal Acts: Hijackings, Attacks on Diplomats, and Extradition Conventions, 1968–1971
2. What Is International Terrorism? The 1972 Debates on Extremist Violence and National Liberation at the United Nations
3. Tactical Antiterrorism Collaboration in Europe and the Global North
4. Sovereignty-Based Limits to Antiterrorism in European Integration, 1974–1980
5. From International Law to Militarized Counterterrorism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
