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“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom-fighter”– so begins the debate about terrorism as a political concept and legal definition. While terrorism has plagued the modern world since the “long nineteenth century,” it remains deeply misunderstood. Seeking to understand terrorism as a sociopolitical phenomenon, this session investigates the full emergence of terrorism in Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century, when anarchist revolutionaries hoped that “propaganda by the deed” would inspire revolutions and create a new and more equitable and peaceful world.

Dr. Jordan Kuck is associate professor of history and chair of Humanities at Brevard College. Dr. Kuck is an expert on the modern history of Northeastern Europe, and his research deals with the history of nationalism and authoritarianism in the Baltic States during the interwar period. Dr. Kuck has published chapters in edited volumes that marked the centennial of Latvian independence and contributed chapters to three recent or forthcoming books, Dictatorship and Daily Life in Twentieth Century Europe, Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, 1918–2018, and Food and Food Policies under 20th-Century European Dictatorships. Dr. Kuck is also currently working on a manuscript on the Kārlis Ulmanis regime in Latvia. Dr. Kuck has also given high-profile public talks, including as a spotlight speaker for the World Affairs Council’s national conference in Washington, D.C. He has received in support of his research a Fulbright, a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, as well as a grant from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.

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