RT Article
T1 The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 36
IS 5
SP 614
OP 637
A1 Criado, Henar
A1 Herreros Vázquez, Francisco 1972-
A1 Martín-Hernández, Alvaro
A1 Domenech, Jordi
A2 Herreros Vázquez, Francisco 1972-
A2 Martín-Hernández, Alvaro
A2 Domenech, Jordi
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1895379962
AB This article analyses how events of political violence in the distant past affect the outbreak of terrorism in the present. Civil wars leave a legacy of distrust that can persist through generations, paving the way to violent responses to perceived threats. We claim that part of the explanation for the counterintuitive terrorism phenomenon in a prosperous and relatively egalitarian region such as the Basque Country (and, potentially, other cases of terrorism) lies in the legacies of political violence in the distant past. Those communities where support for Carlism, one of the warring factions in nineteenth-century civil wars, was strong, were more likely to support terrorism a century later. The article also shows that the transmission of these legacies was robust in communities that have remained largely isolated in the century that separates the civil war from the terrorism of the 1970s.
K1 Voting
K1 Civil War
K1 political trust
K1 Legacies
K1 Terrorism
DO 10.1080/09546553.2023.2188963