TEEMU SINKKONEN Political Responses to Terrorism Case study on the Madrid terrorist attack on March 11, 2004, and its aftermath ACADEMIC DISSERTATION To be presented, with the permission of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Tampere, for public discussion in the Auditorium Pinni B 1100 Kanslerinrinne 1, Tampere, on November 27th, 2009, at 12 o’clock. UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE ACADEMIC DISSERTATION University of Tampere Department of Political Science and International Relations Finland Distribution Tel. +358 3 3551 6055 Bookshop TAJU Fax +358 3 3551 7685 P.O. Box 617
[email protected] 33014 University of Tampere www.uta.fi/taju Finland http://granum.uta.fi Cover design by Juha Siro Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1462 Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis 896 ISBN 978-951-44-7871-0 (print) ISBN 978-951-44-7872-7 (pdf) ISSN-L 1455-1616 ISSN 1456-954X ISSN 1455-1616 http://acta.uta.fi Tampereen Yliopistopaino Oy – Juvenes Print Tampere 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my supervisor Jukka Paastela for having trust in my ideas and encouraging me during all the years that this project has required. I am also thankful to Antonio Robles Egea, who several years ago helped me to get started with my research in Spanish political radicalism, to Timo Sinkkonen for helping me with the proofreading, and to Virginia Mattila for checking the English of this manuscript. I am grateful to the University of Tampere, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Emil Aaltonen Foundation, and the University of Tampere Foundation for financial support. 3 4 ABSTRACT This dissertation is a case study on the dynamics of different types of political responses to the Madrid terrorist attack on March 11, 2004.