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On the Interpretation of Terrorist Violence: ETA and the Basque Political Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

William A. Douglass  and
Joseba Zulaika
William A. Douglass
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Reno
Joseba Zulaika
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Reno
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Political violence, labeled loosely as “terrorism,” is a seemingly ubiquitous factor in twentieth-century world politics. Coping with it has become a major preoccupation of governments and is the object of considerable international cooperation among them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the case of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna or Basque Country and Freedom) within the Basque nationalist movement in order to underscore several of the conceptual weaknesses in the literature on terrorism while also suggesting avenues for future research.

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The Politics of Terror
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 238 - 257
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1990

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