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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: TERRORISM AND INSURGENCY

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Volume 3

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND WORLD SECURITY

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND WORLD SECURITY

Edited by
DAVID CARLTON & CARLO SCHAERF

First published 1975

This edition first published in 2015
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1975 International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts Fifth Course

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ISBN: 978-1-138-83955-7 (Set)
eISBN: 978-1-315-69683-6 (Set)
ISBN: 978-1-138-89977-3 (Volume 3)
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INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND WORLD SECURITY

EDITED BY DAVID CARLTON & CARLO SCHAERF

First published 1975
1975 International School on Disarmament and
Research on Conflicts Fifth Course

Croom Helm Ltd
210 St Johns Road London SW 11

ISBN 0-85664-272-X

Printed in Great Britain
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CONTENTS

J. Henk Leurdijk

Brian M. Jenkins

Gaston Bouthoul

Steven J. Rosen and Robert Frank

George Sliwowski

J. Bowyer Bell

Daniel Heradstveit

Herbert F. York

Thomas Blau

Bernard T. Feld

Victor Gilinsky

L. J. Dumas

Tom Stonier

Pierre Hassner

Nino Pasti

Thomas Blau

Ciro E. Zoppo

David Carlton

Michael Nicholson

John H. Barton

Lillian Davis

The papers in this volume were presented to the Fifth Course of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, held in Urbino, Italy, between 12 and 24 August 1974.

The organisation of the course was made possible by the generous collaboration and financial contributions of different organisations and individuals.

For their financial contributions we wish to express our gratitude to:

UNESCO, in particular Prof. M. Paronetto-Valier;

The Ford Foundation, in particular Mr William B. Bader;

The Italian Ministry of Public Education;

The Italian National Research Council.

For hospitality in the City of Urbino and in Collegio Universitario we are indebted to:

The University of Urbino and its Rector, Prof. Carlo Bo;

The Collegio Universitario and the University of Urbino, its Director

Prof. Giorgio Baiardi and Miss Giulia Zannini.

Dr Smeralda Bozzo and Mr Fernando Pacciano collaborated in the preparatory work in Frascati.

We would also like to acknowledge the dedicated collaboration of Miss Virginia Panaccia, Anna Centamore, Laura Matriolia and the staff of the Collegio Universitario.

The editors are grateful for help with translation to Mr. Hugh Collingham; and for advice on some international legal passages to Dr Peter Slinn.

The editors wish to thank Dr Christophe Bertram and the International Institute for Strategic Studies for giving permission to General Pasti to reproduce major sections from its annual publication, The Military Balance. Thanks are also due to Dr Ciro Zoppo and the California Arms Control and Foreign Policy Seminar under whose auspices three papers in this volume were originally prepared.

All opinions expressed during the formal lectures as well as during the ensuing discussions are of a purely private nature and do not necessarily represent the official opinion either of the organisers of the School or of the organisations to which the speakers belong.

J. Henk Leurdijk

Introduction

One conclusion which relates to all subjects treated during the two weeks of the ISODARCO discussions is that our future is going to be violent. Two types of violence which we are experiencing already and on which the major part of our discussions focused were nuclear deterrence and international terrorism. Although they are very different in character and magnitude, there are nevertheless more similarities than just the semantic similarity of deterrence and terror.

The broader perspective in which the discussions took place was the recognition of the need for a new kind of world order which is still far away but to which many references were made. And within this perspective I will touch only on those paradoxes and inconsistencies which are inevitably part of any discussion on violence in our system.

Consideration was given to how political violence manifests itself in the present international system which is generally regarded as having three important features: the almost complete decolonisation except for the colonial systems in Southern Africa; the pre-eminence of the Soviet Union and the United States as the two superpowers whose relations have developed from the dangerous Cold War confrontation into an alleged superpower bilateralism; and the existence of and race in nuclear armaments.

Among those states which in the past played the power game of war and alliances, open violence has lost its attractiveness as a result of the existence of nuclear weapons. It is often said that the world has experienced a generation of peace among the major powers because the existence of these weapons has had a stabilising effect in an atmosphere of Cold War antagonism, which might have easily erupted into open violence. This is an attractive proposition to those second-rank powers that consider themselves also to be involved in major antagonisms and, rightly or wrongly, makes them regard nuclear weapons as perfectly legitimate instruments of deterrence which is their main justification for trying to acquire them. How, then, can we prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to minor powers when the major powers justify nuclear weapons as a factor promoting peace, which is defined as the absence of open war? This was the first paradox or inconsistency to emerge from the discussions.

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