Remember ‘take this plane to Cuba”? What if I told you that airplane hijackings as a technique go back to the 1930s!
Canadian scholar Yannick Veilleux-Lepage walks us through the ‘evolution’ of this phenomenon.
About my guest Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage is an Assistant Professor of Terrorism and Political violence at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He holds a doctorate in International Relations from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
His research interests include the creation of online narratives and propaganda which fosters or normalizes terrorism; historical antecedents to terrorism; far-right extremism and the transnational links of far-right groups; ideological and technical diffusion, and the application of evolutionary theory to social sciences.
How Terror Evolves, The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques
Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
This book contextualizes the use of terror as part of wider movements of political contention, demonstrating that terroristic innovation occurs as part of wider historical processes rather than in a vacuum.
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