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The Group of 7 and international terrorism : the snowball effect that never materialized

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Date
01/04/2016
Author
Blumenau, Bernhard
Keywords
Cold War
Germany
Group of 7
hijacking
terrorism
United States of America
JZ International relations
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Abstract
The article looks at the Group of 7 (G7) efforts to fight international terrorism in the 1970s and early 1980s. It examines the G7 statement against hijacking, the Bonn Declaration of 1978, and assesses how the G7 dealt with it after the adoption of the Declaration. The article illustrates that after a short phase of enthusiasm just after the Declaration’s adoption, the G7 members’ united front against terrorism quickly eroded. The G7 failed to secure support from other countries and realized the economic and political costs that the implementation of the Declaration could produce. Therefore, it was pushed to the backburner. The Declaration was largely of symbolic and only of very little practical importance. Yet, it still pointed to the new approach of the G7 – present until today – that moved away from a purely economic agenda towards a progressively more political one.
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Blumenau , B 2016 , ' The Group of 7 and international terrorism : the snowball effect that never materialized ' , Journal of Contemporary History , vol. 51 , no. 2 , pp. 316-334 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009415578547
Publication
Journal of Contemporary History
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009415578547
ISSN
0022-0094
Type
Journal article
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Copyright The Author(s) 2015. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009415578547
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  • International Relations Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9183

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