Contemporary History | Preventing International Terrorism in the 1970s, April 7

The Contemporary History Institute presents Dr. Silke Zoller discussing “Preventing International Terrorism in the 1970s” on April 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Bentley 223 and via Teams.

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In the early 1970s, hijackings and similar terrorist attacks increasingly happened around the world. Officials in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan began collaborating in response. They passed a range of multilateral agreements against terrorist acts which, they hoped, would deter new attacks and motivate states to punish attackers. These agreements substantially shaped how the industrialized Global North would conceptualize the threat of “international terrorism” in the decades to come. 

Zoller is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University. Her research focuses on international collaboration against terrorism and political violence in the second half of the 20th century. She is the author of To Deter and Punish: Global Collaboration Against Terrorism in the 1970s . Silke earned a Ph.D. in History from Temple University in 2018. She also has an M.A. in Early Modern and Modern History from Tübingen University in Germany. Silke previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas, Austin, and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.