The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country

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...

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Autores: Criado, Henar, Herreros Vázquez, Francisco, Martín Hernández, Álvaro, Domenech, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/377482
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/377482
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Terrorism
Legacies
Political trust
Civil war
Voting
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spelling The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque CountryCriado, HenarHerreros Vázquez, FranciscoMartín Hernández, ÁlvaroDomenech, JordiTerrorismLegaciesPolitical trustCivil warVotingTerrorismThis 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.This work was supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation [Research Grant 2015].Peer reviewedTaylor & FrancisHarry Frank Guggenheim FoundationHerreros Vázquez, Francisco [0000-0002-5802-625X]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202520252023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/377482reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2023.2188963Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3774822026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
title The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
spellingShingle The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
Criado, Henar
Terrorism
Legacies
Political trust
Civil war
Voting
Terrorism
title_short The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
title_full The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
title_fullStr The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
title_full_unstemmed The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
title_sort The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Criado, Henar
Herreros Vázquez, Francisco
Martín Hernández, Álvaro
Domenech, Jordi
author Criado, Henar
author_facet Criado, Henar
Herreros Vázquez, Francisco
Martín Hernández, Álvaro
Domenech, Jordi
author_role author
author2 Herreros Vázquez, Francisco
Martín Hernández, Álvaro
Domenech, Jordi
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Herreros Vázquez, Francisco [0000-0002-5802-625X]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Terrorism
Legacies
Political trust
Civil war
Voting
Terrorism
topic Terrorism
Legacies
Political trust
Civil war
Voting
Terrorism
description 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.
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