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David Copello - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Eudald Cortina Orero - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the salvadoran armed left and Revolutionary Violence 1970 1980
    2017
    Co-Authors: Alberto Martín Álvarez, Eudald Cortina Orero
    Abstract:

    This chapter analyzes the actions and strategies undertaken by the Salvadoran armed left from its birth to the creation of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in 1980. Revolutionary Violence emerged in the early 1970s in the context of an authoritarian political regime that went to inordinate levels of repression against any expression of dissidence—even against those who attempted to dissent through purely peaceful methods. Drawing on internal documents and a database of armed actions built by the authors, this work clearly identifies different patterns of use of Revolutionary Violence by the Salvadoran Left along the decade under study. These patterns are in turn linked to the different stages of development of the armed organizations, to the changing domestic and global political context and to the strategy developed by each group.

  • The Salvadoran Armed Left and Revolutionary Violence (1970–1980)
    Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America, 2016
    Co-Authors: Alberto Martín Álvarez, Eudald Cortina Orero
    Abstract:

    This chapter analyzes the actions and strategies undertaken by the Salvadoran armed left from its birth to the creation of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in 1980. Revolutionary Violence emerged in the early 1970s in the context of an authoritarian political regime that went to inordinate levels of repression against any expression of dissidence—even against those who attempted to dissent through purely peaceful methods. Drawing on internal documents and a database of armed actions built by the authors, this work clearly identifies different patterns of use of Revolutionary Violence by the Salvadoran Left along the decade under study. These patterns are in turn linked to the different stages of development of the armed organizations, to the changing domestic and global political context and to the strategy developed by each group.

Alberto Martín Álvarez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the salvadoran armed left and Revolutionary Violence 1970 1980
    2017
    Co-Authors: Alberto Martín Álvarez, Eudald Cortina Orero
    Abstract:

    This chapter analyzes the actions and strategies undertaken by the Salvadoran armed left from its birth to the creation of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in 1980. Revolutionary Violence emerged in the early 1970s in the context of an authoritarian political regime that went to inordinate levels of repression against any expression of dissidence—even against those who attempted to dissent through purely peaceful methods. Drawing on internal documents and a database of armed actions built by the authors, this work clearly identifies different patterns of use of Revolutionary Violence by the Salvadoran Left along the decade under study. These patterns are in turn linked to the different stages of development of the armed organizations, to the changing domestic and global political context and to the strategy developed by each group.

  • The Salvadoran Armed Left and Revolutionary Violence (1970–1980)
    Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America, 2016
    Co-Authors: Alberto Martín Álvarez, Eudald Cortina Orero
    Abstract:

    This chapter analyzes the actions and strategies undertaken by the Salvadoran armed left from its birth to the creation of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in 1980. Revolutionary Violence emerged in the early 1970s in the context of an authoritarian political regime that went to inordinate levels of repression against any expression of dissidence—even against those who attempted to dissent through purely peaceful methods. Drawing on internal documents and a database of armed actions built by the authors, this work clearly identifies different patterns of use of Revolutionary Violence by the Salvadoran Left along the decade under study. These patterns are in turn linked to the different stages of development of the armed organizations, to the changing domestic and global political context and to the strategy developed by each group.

Charles Kurzman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama
    The Missing Martyrs, 2018
    Co-Authors: Charles Kurzman
    Abstract:

    Shifts in American foreign policy have had little effect on Muslim attitudes toward the United States—even the shift from the administration of Barack Obama to that of Donald Trump barely changed Muslims’ survey responses or the prevalence of Revolutionary Violence. So why should the United States bother to take Muslim sensibilities into account? Following the lead of Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and remarkable American humanitarians of the past century, this chapter proposes that the United States reorganize its counterterrorism policy around the interests of its liberal Muslim allies, rather than expose them to the dangers of militarism and authoritarianism.

  • Liberal Islam versus Revolutionary Islamism
    The Missing Martyrs, 2018
    Co-Authors: Charles Kurzman
    Abstract:

    Liberal Islamic movements represent a significant challenge for Revolutionary Islamists, who loathe them for it. Rooted in 19th century Islamic reformism, liberal ideals such as democracy and peaceful coexistence are more popular among Muslims than theocracy and terrorism, according to survey data, election results, and mass mobilizations over the past generation. The mainstream position in many Muslim communities is a combination of cultural conservatism and political liberalism—apprehensive about many aspects of Western liberalism, but staunchly opposed to Revolutionary Violence. In many Muslim-majority countries, adherents of liberal Islam find themselves under attack both by Islamist revolutionaries and by authoritarian regimes.

  • Radical Sheik
    The Missing Martyrs, 2018
    Co-Authors: Charles Kurzman
    Abstract:

    In 1970, the American author Tom Wolfe coined a phrase to describe nonRevolutionary people who claim to support Revolutionary causes: “radical chic.” This chapter applies the pun “radical sheik” to Muslims who considered al-Qaida and the self-proclaimed Islamic State to be anti-imperialist heroes, but did not actually support Revolutionary Violence. The more that the revolutionaries targeted Muslims, in an attempt to polarize society and drag the masses into battle, the less popular the revolutionaries became. Instead, Muslims turned in much larger numbers to the revolutionaries’ religious competitors, such as apolitical pietism, liberal Islam, and nonRevolutionary Islamism, all of which denounced terrorism.

Casa De Velázquez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Mapping the Argentine New Left: Social Liberation, National Liberation and Revolutionary Violence
    2020
    Co-Authors: David Copello, Casa De Velázquez
    Abstract:

    In recent years, investigation on 1960s/1970s Revolutionary activism in Argentina has led to the publication of multiple case studies. Building on this existing literature, the article provides a more general view of what is often called the "New Left", which is first characterized by the importance assigned to three issues: social liberation, national liberation and Revolutionary Violence. The paper then isolates two differentiating lines within this political space: an ideological divide (Marxism vs. Peronism) and an instrumental division over the strategic status of Violence (insurrection vs. protracted people's war vs. political-military action). In the conclusion, we provide a summarized graphic representation to facilitate comparative reflections on radical politics in the long sixties. This overview shall help non-specialists familiarize with a complex historical reality that has become key to contemporary political debates on memory and human rights in Argentina.