The West's Road to 9/11

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • David Carlton

      Pages 1-11

3. The 1970s: Appeasing Terrorism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. 1970: The West’s First Major Test

      • David Carlton

      Pages 15-38

   3. The 1970s: The West’s Collective Response to Terrorism Following Dawson’s Field

      • David Carlton

      Pages 39-46

   4. Rewarding the Palestinians

      • David Carlton

      Pages 47-63

   5. Appeasing Two European Insurgencies

      • David Carlton

      Pages 64-87

   6. Equivocal West European Responses to 1968-Inspired Terrorism

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      Pages 88-108

   7. Appeasing Iran as a Sponsor of Terrorism: The Tehran Embassy Occupation

      • David Carlton

      Pages 109-118

4. The 1980s: Resisting, Appeasing and Sponsoring Terrorism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. The 1980s: The West’s Collective Response to Terrorism

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      Pages 121-127

   3. The 1980s: Resisting Terrorism

      • David Carlton

      Pages 128-140

   4. The 1980s: Appeasing Terrorism

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      Pages 141-171

   5. The 1980s: Encouraging and Sponsoring Terrorism

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      Pages 172-187

5. The 1970s: Appeasing Terrorism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. The 1990s: Business-as-Usual: Resisting, Appeasing and Sponsoring Terrorism

      • David Carlton

      Pages 191-228

   3. The 1990s: Business-not-as-Usual: In Awe of Terrorism

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      Pages 229-254

6. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. 9/11 as a Catalyst for Consistency?

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      Pages 257-278

7. Back Matter

   Pages 279-297

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The West's Road to 9/11 offers a detailed explanation of the handling of the challenge of terrorism by the USA, the UK and the West over the last thirty years. David Carlton contends that anti-terrorist rhetoric by the Governments of the West frequently masked indifference to the activities of many practitioners of non-state violence; and that in the case of the United States it did not hesitate even to sponsor those terrorist movements if deemed supportive of its wider geopolitical objectives.

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• Europe
• geopolitics
• government
• Iran
• rhetoric
• state
• terrorism
• USA

'9/11 generated a proliferation of studies on different aspects of the most devastating terrorist attack in human history. David Carlton, an accomplished chronicler of contemporary political and strategic developments, makes an important contribution to better understand the complex factors that appeased and encouraged modern terrorism since the 1970s. His sober account and analysis should serve as an intellectual wake-up call to the West to seriously ponder future threats, both conventional and unconventional, and craft realistic strategies to combat this unprecedented challenge to the survival of civilization itself.' - Professor Yonah Alexander, Director, Inter-University Centre for Terrorism Studies, USA

• University of Warwick, UK

  David Carlton

DAVID CARLTON is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of MacDonald versus Henderson (1970); Anthony Eden: A Biography (1981); Britain and the Suez Crisis (1988); Churchill and the Soviet Union (2000) and numerous academic articles. He has also co-edited twenty-one further books.

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