Accession Number:

ADA103326

Title:

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

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Jenkins, Brian M.

Report Date:

1981-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

46.0

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 Republics 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.

Descriptors:

• *TERRORISM
• ATTACK
• DIPLOMATS
• FACILITIES
• HISTORY
• INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Subject Categories:

• Sociology and Law
• Humanities and History

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE