Terrorism in the Cold War

Adrian Hänni is Lecturer for Political History at Distance Learning University, Switzerland. He was previously postdoctoral fellow at University of Leiden and Lecturer in History at Univesity of Zurich. He holds a PhD from University of Zurich. Thomas Riegler is an Affiliate Researcher at the Austrian Centre for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies at the University of Graz. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the academic journal Perspectives on Terrorism. Przemyslaw Gasztold is a research fellow at the Historic Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. He received his Ph.D. from Warsaw University in 2016.

1. Introduction – State Support for Terrorist Actors in the Cold War: Myths and Reality - Adrian Hänni,
2. The KGB’s Abduction Program and the PFLP: On the Cusp between Intelligence and Terrorism - Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
3. Soviet Approaches to Muslim Extremism and Terrorism - Michael Fredholm
4. Palestinian Terrorism and the State Security of the GDR: Abu Nidal between East Berlin, Moscow and Washington 1973-1989 - Tobias Wunschik
5. Polish Military Intelligence and Its Secret Relationship with the Abu Nidal Organization - Przemyslaw Gasztold
6. Carlos the Jackal in Prague: Communist Czechoslovakia and International Terrorism – a Case Study - Pavel Žácek
7. Hungarian State Security and International Terrorism in the 1980s - Balázs Orbán-Schwarzkopf
8. Bulgarian State Security and International Terrorism - Jordan Baev
9. Yugoslavia, Carlos “the Jackal” and International Terrorism During the Cold War - Gordan Akrap
10. North Korea's “Terrorism” and “Counterterrorism” in the Late 1980s - Bernd Schaefer