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29 - Nationalism, Terrorism, and the State: Historical Perspectives

from Part III - Intersections: National(ist) Synergies and Tensions with Other Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Categories, Identities, and Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

On 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, a young Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austrian heir presumptive, Franz Ferdinand. By killing the archduke (and his wife), Princip set in motion the well-oiled wheels that would, just a month later, lead to the outbreak of what George F. Kennan called “the great seminal catastrophe of [the twentieth] century,”1 the First World War. It resulted in the demise of most European monarchies and empires, and – by extension – triggered the next two global conflicts, the Second World War and the Cold War. Princip was a member of the secret Serbian society the “Black Hand,” which had grown in response to the illegal occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Habsburg Monarchy in 1908. He shot Franz Ferdinand to intimidate Austria-Hungary so that it would let go of Bosnia and Herzegovina.2 This assassination demonstrates how terrorism and nationalism can be intertwined and how potent and destructive this mix can be.

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Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Chaliand, Gérard, and Blin, Arnaud, The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to ISIS, updated edition (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
English, Richard, Does Terrorism Work? A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Hanhimäki, Jussi, and Blumenau, Bernhard, An International History of Terrorism: Western and Non-Western Experiences (London: Routledge, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoffman, Bruce, Inside Terrorism, 3rd edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laqueur, Walter, A History of Terrorism, expanded edition (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2016).Google Scholar
Law, Randall D., Terrorism: A History (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Rapoport, David. “The Four Waves of Modern Terrorism,” in Cronin, Audrey Kurth and Ludes, James M. (eds.), Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004), 4673.Google Scholar

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