Papers originally presented at a meeting sponsored by the Ford Foundation in 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thoughts on relating terrorism to historical contexts / Martha Crenshaw -- The intellectual origins of modern terrorism in Europe / Martin A. Miller -- Russian revolutionary terrorism / Philip Pomper -- Left-wing terrorism in Italy / Donatella della Porta -- West German left-wing terrorism / Peter H. Merkl -- Political violence in Argentina: guerrillas, terrorists, and carapintadas / Richard Gillespie -- The revolutionary terrorism of Peru's shining path / David Scott Palmer -- The culture of paramilitarism in Ireland / Charles Townshend --
Political violence and terrorism in India: the crisis of identity / Paul Wallace -- Political violence in a democratic state: Basque terrorism in Spain / Goldie Shabad, Francisco Jose Llera Ramo -- The effectiveness of terrorism in the Algerian War / Martha Crenshaw -- Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli conflict: targets and audiences / Ian S. Lustick -- Terrorism and politics in Iran / Jerrold D. Green -- Terrorism in the context of academic research / Michel Wieviorka