Terrorist Constituencies in Terrorist-State Conflicts: The debate on the use of violence among Irish nationalists and West Germany’s Radical Left in the Mid 1970s

J. Pekelder; Joost Augusteijn

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_5

Terrorist Constituencies in Terrorist-State Conflicts: The debate on the use of violence among Irish nationalists and West Germany’s Radical Left in the Mid 1970s

J. Pekelder
, Joost Augusteijn

Leiden University

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Abstract

Most terrorist research is focused on the actual terrorists or on counter-terrorist policies. Still, terrorists need a ‘societal surround’ of sympathisers and immediate supporters to function successfully. These form the first audience in the struggle between state and terrorists in which they both try to convince the rest of society of the validity of their contrasting concepts of democracy. This chapter focuses on the debates in what is here termed the terrorist constituency to provide an understanding of the dilemmas that arise in societies faced with fundamental opposition. It does so by analysing the reactions within this constituency in Ireland and Germany to a number of trials and subsequent hunger strikes of IRA and RAF prisoners in the 1970s.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Historical perspectives on democracies and their adversaries
Editors	Joost Augusteijn, Constant Hijzen, Mark Leon Vries, de
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	101-136
Number of pages	36
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-20123-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-20122-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_5
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

Terrorism
counterterrorism
Germany
Ireland
Rote Armee Fraktion
IRA
United Kingdom

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Pekelder, J., & Augusteijn, J. (2019). Terrorist Constituencies in Terrorist-State Conflicts: The debate on the use of violence among Irish nationalists and West Germany’s Radical Left in the Mid 1970s. In J. Augusteijn, C. Hijzen, & M. L. Vries, de (Eds.), Historical perspectives on democracies and their adversaries (pp. 101-136). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_5

Pekelder, J. ; Augusteijn, Joost. / Terrorist Constituencies in Terrorist-State Conflicts : The debate on the use of violence among Irish nationalists and West Germany’s Radical Left in the Mid 1970s. Historical perspectives on democracies and their adversaries. editor / Joost Augusteijn ; Constant Hijzen ; Mark Leon Vries, de. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. pp. 101-136

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Pekelder J, Augusteijn J. Terrorist Constituencies in Terrorist-State Conflicts: The debate on the use of violence among Irish nationalists and West Germany’s Radical Left in the Mid 1970s. In Augusteijn J, Hijzen C, Vries, de ML, editors, Historical perspectives on democracies and their adversaries. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. p. 101-136 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_5

Terrorist Constituencies in Terrorist-State Conflicts: The debate on the use of violence among Irish nationalists and West Germany’s Radical Left in the Mid 1970s

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