Embassies Under Siege: A Review of 48 Embassy Takeovers, 1971-1980

Abstract

As part of its research on the phenomenon of terrorism, The Rand Corporation has maintained a chronology of incidents of international terrorism. This chronology, now consisting of approximately 1,400 incidents that have occurred since 1968, provides a useful historical record and a data base for analysis. The takeover of the American embassy in Teheran in November 1979, and of the Dominican Republic's embassy in Bogota in February 1980, prompted a review of this particular terrorist tactic for possible emergent patterns or trends. This report examines 43 seizures and five attempted seizures of diplomatic facilites which occurred in the past decade.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA103326

Entities

People

  • Brian Michael Jenkins

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central America
  • Costa Rica
  • Dominican Republic
  • El Salvador
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Middle East
  • Police
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Security
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Violence
  • West Germany
  • Western Europe

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.