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May 7, 2024 · In the two-volume edited collection Terrorism in the Cold War, a bevy of mostly European scholars seeks to illuminate the connections between terrorist actors and the states that supported, harbored, and tolerated them. Drawing on interviews and documents from the...
May 13, 2024 · treason, the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. In English law, treason includes the levying of war against the government and the giving of aid and comfort to the monarch’s enemies. It is also treason to violate the monarch’s consort, eldest unmarried daughter, or heir’s wife.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 2, 2024 · War on terrorism, term used to describe the American-led global counterterrorism campaign launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks. In its scope, expenditure, and impact on international relations, it was comparable to the Cold War, and it represented a new phase in global political relations.
4 days ago · The Treason Legislation of Henry VIII (1531-1534): Alexander Prize Essay, 1916 I. D. Thornley Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Vol. 11 (1917), pp. 87-123. Some of the subsequent legislation on treasonable offences. Treason Act 1702 (1 Anne stat 2 c 21) Treason Act 1790 (30 Geo 3 c 48) Treason Act 1795 (36 Geo 3 c 7)
- Elizabeth Wells
- 2010
1 day ago · The term terrorism became increasingly used for acts of political violence from the 1840s onwards. [41] Anarchism, often in league with rising nationalism, was the most prominent ideology linked with terrorism. [42] Attacks by various anarchist groups led to the assassination of a Russian Tsar and a U.S. President.
6 days ago · The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War. Through an award winning Digital Archive, the Project allows scholars, journalists, students, and the interested public to reassess the Cold War and its many contemporary legacies.
May 1, 2024 · The lecture, which reconstructs and analyses how Western European States responded to international terrorism and their relations in the domain of collective security from the 1960s to the late 1980s, sets itself an ambitious goal: to gain greater insight on whether exported terrorism, characterised by a transnational DNA, has played a role in ...
