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Following the protest movements and radicalism of the late sixties, many affluent countries experienced lethal revolutionary terrorism. Groups like the Red Brigades in Italy and the Red Army Faction in Germany provoked political crises in their countries. Other affluent countries, however, did not experience this same kind of violence. This book offers a historical-comparative explanation of this cross-national variation, focusing on the development paths followed by countries during the interwar period. The countries that followed a non-liberal path (marked by anarchist terrorism, democratic breakdowns, civil wars, land inequality, non-liberal capitalism, and late industrialization) suffered lethal left-wing terrorism decades later. Terrorism is thus explained as a feature of the political and economic system. Drawing on several fields, including comparative politics, political economy, international relations, and historical sociology, this book offers novel hypotheses about the determinants of violent conflict

Following the protest movements and radicalism of the late sixties, many affluent countries experienced lethal revolutionary terrorism. Groups like the Red Brigades in Italy and the Red Army Faction in Germany provoked political crises in their countries. Other affluent countries, however, did not experience this same kind of violence. This book offers a historical-comparative explanation of this cross-national variation, focusing on the development paths followed by countries during the interwar period. The countries that followed a non-liberal path (marked by anarchist terrorism, democratic breakdowns, civil wars, land inequality, non-liberal capitalism, and late industrialization) suffered lethal left-wing terrorism decades later. Terrorism is thus explained as a feature of the political and economic system. Drawing on several fields, including comparative politics, political economy, international relations, and historical sociology, this book offers novel hypotheses about the determinants of violent conflict.

Este libro tiene un mensaje que puede resultar incómodo: la democracia española no ha estado a la altura de las circunstancias en la cuestión catalana. [...] Los errores que haya cometido el independentismo catalán, que a mi entender son muchos y graves, no pueden nublarnos el juicio con respecto a nuestro propio sistema democrático, que ha mostrado serias deficiencias". Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca argumenta en estas páginas que la crisis catalana ha activado un nacionalismo español con un discurso claro: frente a la política identitaria de los independentistas, se erige una sociedad española abierta y democrática, un Estado español con siglos de antigüedad que cuenta con instituciones que garantizan las libertades, los derechos fundamentales y la igualdad política. Pero la crisis constitucional catalana ha supuesto un descalabro colectivo desde un punto de vista democrático; el Gobierno de España prefirió no abrir una negociación que desactivara el conflicto, lo que aprovecharon los líderes del independentismo catalán para justificar una estrategia unilateral que ha acabado en un sonoro fracaso