Terror Vanquished: The Italian Approach to Defeating Terrorism
Simon Clark
Nov 2018 · Center for Security Policy Studies
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The history of Italy’s victory over the Red Brigades offers lessons that may be useful to America’s future. The United States has suffered from the horrors of home grown and global terrorism but so far has been spared the endemic violence of the kind that plagued Italy during the years of lead that are described in this volume. In 2003, Philip Heymann compared the US favorably to Italy, expressing relief that American society did not suffer from the kind of deep divisions that had created the conditions for the rise of the Red Brigades. Fifteen years later, Heymann’s confidence no longer looks so well founded. The political divisions in the United States have widened and become stubbornly entrenched. The combination of conspiratorial thinking, ideological division and a powerful sense of grievance, combined with the easy access to powerful weapons and a cult of political violence, should worry all those who are sworn to keep the peace.
About the author
Simon Clark is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Security Policy Studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, is a Senior Fellow in the National Security and International Policy team at the Center for American Progress and is the Chair of the board of Foreign Policy for America, an advocacy group for principled American engagement in the world. Simon had a thirty year career in technology, news, technology venture capital and sustainability investing in the US and Europe. He is based in Washington, DC.
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