The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country

This article analyses how events of political violence in the distant past affect outbreak terrorism present. Civil wars leave a legacy distrust that can persist through generations, paving way to violent responses perceived threats. We claim part explanation for counterintuitive phenomenon prosperous and relatively egalitarian region such as Basque Country (and, potentially, other cases terrorism) lies legacies past. Those communities where support Carlism, one warring factions nineteenth-century civil wars, was strong, were more likely century later. The also shows transmission these robust have remained largely isolated separates war from 1970s.