38.1 - Security and Conspiracy

Introduction

• Cornel Zwierlein & Beatrice de Graaf: Security and Conspiracy in Modern History.

I. General and Interdisciplinary Approaches, Early Modern Foundations

• Beatrice de Graaf & Cornel Zwierlein: Historicizing Security – Entering the Conspiracy Dispositive.
• Cornel Zwierlein: Security Politics and Conspiracy Theories in the Emerging European State System (15th/16th c.).
• Karl Härter: Security and Cross-Border Political Crime: The Formation of Transnational Security Regimes in 18th and 19th Century Europe.
• Geoffrey Cubitt: Conspiracism, Secrecy and Security in Restoration France: Denouncing the Jesuit Menace.
• John T. Hamilton: Conspiracy, Security, and Human Care in Donnersmarck’s Leben der Anderen.

II. Case Studies Late 19th to 21st Century

• Beatrice de Graaf: The Black International Conspiracy as Security Dispositive in the Netherlands, 1880-1900.
• Constant Willem Hijzen: The Perpetual Adversary. How Dutch Security Services Perceived Communism (1918-1989).
• Ondrej Ditrych: ‘International Terrorism’ as Conspiracy: Debating Terrorism in the League of Nations.
• Susanne Keesman: The Communist Menace in Finsterwolde: Conspiring against Local Authorities? Case Study on the Dutch Battle against Communism, 1945-1951.
• Tobias Hof: The Moro Affair – Left-Wing Terrorism and Conspiracy in Italy in the Late 1970s.
• Jelle van Buuren: Holland’s Own Kennedy Affair. Conspiracy Theories on the Murder of Pim Fortuyn.
• Liesbeth van der Heide: Cherry-Picked Intelligence. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Dispositive as a Legitimation for National Security in the Post 9/11 Age.

Mixed Issue: Articles

• Tobias A. Jopp: On the Historical Roots of the Modern Welfare State: The Knappschaft Statistics of 1861 to 1920 as a Source for Quantitative Historical Social Research.
• Kitae Sohn: The Living Arrangements of U.S. Teachers, 1860-1910.