Die Niederlande, Europa und die Macht in der Mitte: 1648 – 1848 – 2048: Antrittsvorlesung, Münster, 15. Mai 2023
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In: Deutsch-niederländische Beziehungen Bd. 2
In: Moving the Social, Volume 66, p. 21-41
ISSN: 2197-0394
Political violence is a specific category of participation that is frowned upon in most societies. This article compares how two western-style post war democracies, West Germany and the Netherlands, dealt with violent politics from the left in the 1960s and 1970s. On the macro level, a lack of integrative mechanisms in the West German political system fostered a radicalization that the Netherlands was able to avoid. On the mesolevel of intra-movement dynamics, this also produced different outcomes. While West German radicals such as the founders of the left-wing terrorist Red Army Faction were able to enhance their reputations and find sympathy and support within the broad new left movement family through an embrace of the idea and practice of armed struggle, similar Dutch groups found no footing. Still, it would be a foregone conclusion to deem the Netherlands immune to the kinds of counter-productive policies towards unwelcome forms of political participation that befell West Germany. When the Netherlands was put to the ultimate stress test in 1977 –1978 during a direct confrontation with the RAF, its police, justice system and political apparatus proved nearly as vulnerable to the negative societal dynamics of political violence as their counterparts to the East.
In: International review of social history, Volume 60, Issue 2, p. 300-302
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: International review of social history, Volume 58, Issue 1, p. 148-151
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: Internationale spectator, Volume 66, Issue 3, p. 161-162
ISSN: 0020-9317
In: International review of social history, Volume 56, Issue 1, p. 162-164
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: Democracy and security, Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 286-288
ISSN: 1555-5860
In: Democracy and security, Volume 6, Issue 2, p. 213-215
ISSN: 1555-5860
In: Democracy and security, Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 286-288
ISSN: 1741-9166
In: Democracy and security, Volume 6, Issue 2, p. 213-215
ISSN: 1555-5860
In: Internationale spectator, Volume 62, Issue 11, p. 628
ISSN: 0020-9317
In: Internationale spectator, Volume 62, Issue 10, p. 564-565
ISSN: 0020-9317