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The United Nations and terrorism : Germany, multilateralism, and antiterrorism efforts in the 1970s / Bernhard Blumenau.
Van Pelt Library HV6433.G3 B58 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenau, Bernhard, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--Germany (West)--History.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--Germany (West).
- Terrorism--Prevention--International cooperation--History--20th century.
- United Nations. Ad Hoc Committee on International Terrorism.
- United Nations.
- International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages (1979 December 17).
- International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages.
- Terrorism--Prevention--International cooperation.
- History.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy.
- Germany (West).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 290 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- Bernhard Blumenau presents a thorough examination of West Germany's encounter with domestic and international terrorism in the 1970s and how the country contributed to and eventually led the international battle against terrorism at the United Nations. A study of German foreign policy but also the story of how the UN addressed terrorism in a decade that was strongly marked by this phenomenon, the book provides an in depth archival study of the German motivations for finding an international response to terrorism and the policies Germany pursued in order to achieve this at the UN. Germany's policies were driven by the sheer need for cooperation, but above all by a desire for global influence. The United Nations and Terrorism provides detailed accounts of terrorist crises involving the kidnapping and murder of diplomats, the attack on the Munich Olympics, the OPEC siege, and two aircraft hijackings to Entebbe and Mogadishu. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Domestic terrorism in Germany in the 1970s
- Case studies in international terrorism : hostage crises and hijackings
- The Ad Hoc Committee on International Terrorism, the diplomats convention, and the UN Hostages Convention : drafting and launch
- The UN Hostages Convention : negotiations and adoption
- Conclusions : Germany and UN antiterrorism efforts in the 1970s and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137391964
- 1137391960
- OCLC:
- 881469417
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