Citation

Green LC. Terrorism 1982; 5(4): 373-400.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982)

DOI

10.1080/10576108208435528

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Taking as his point of departure the lack of real support given the League of Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism and the Statute for an International Criminal Court, the author points out that the piecemeal attempts made by the United Nations to combat terrorism have also been unsuccessful, largely because of the insistence by third world nations that terrorism perpetrated for the sake of national liberation should be condoned. Other national and international attempts to deal with the problem, its roots, and its possible eradication, have been on the whole equally unsuccessful. The types of direct action that frustrated the plans of terrorists and prescriptions for future policy and action, as dealt with in a number of recent publications, are discussed in some detail. The role of the media, the arguments for and against censorship, Soviet manipulation, and the price to be paid for upholding the rule of law are also some of the themes explored in this paper.

Language: en