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14 - Terrorism in the Netherlands

A History

from Part III - Historical Case Studies in Terrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2021

Richard English
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast
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In this chapter, terrorism is interpreted as a contested concept: as a discursive frame and a political attribution with the power to transform conflicting political, ideological or religious positions into repertoires of action and governmental practices. Terrorist events will be highlighted inasmuch as they were reported on in the Netherlands, or when threats posed by international terrorist organisations or foreign groups were mediatised within the Dutch context. We will also trace when indigenous Dutch radical groups and individuals triggered national debates – and estimate whether this was followed by national policy decisions and actions or not. As will transpire, the Netherlands were more often than not on the receiving end of international terrorism and global terrorist trends. Yet, there were some instances of terrorist groups and attacks originating in and from the Netherlands, inspired by injustice frames generated on the basis of misgivings about Dutch politics. By and large, the history of terrorism in the Netherlands did follow the trajectories of David Rapoport’s ‘four waves’ of terrorism, albeit with some national characteristics, and always situated within the specific confines of the Dutch national context. In the following, we will trace the introduction, trajectories and translations of terrorism as a concept, discourse and influence on concrete security practices into Dutch politics, society and law – and we will ask ourselves how the double-edged nature of terrorism played out in these interactions.

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Print publication year: 2021

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de Graaf, B. A., Fighting Terror after 1815: Securing Europe after Napoleon (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020)Google Scholar
de Graaf, B. A., Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance: A Comparative Approach (London, Routledge, 2011)Google Scholar
Demant, F. and de Graaf, B. A., ‘How to Counter Radical Narratives: Dutch Deradicalisation Policy in the Case of Moluccan and Islamic Radicals’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 33/5 (2010)Google Scholar
Fadil, N., de Koning, M. and Ragazzi, F. (eds.), Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands: Critical Perspectives on Violence and Security (London, I. B. Tauris, 2019)Google Scholar
Schechter, R., A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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