This book analyses the rise and decline of the Basque terrorist group "Euskadi Ta Askatasuna" (ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom). ETA declared a unilateral ceasefire in November 2011, bringing to a close a campaign of political violence that started in the late 1960s. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the overwhelming majority of secession supporters agreed that an independent Basque homeland would be realised through ballots and not bullets .

Providing an inter-disciplinary overview of radical Basque nationalism that pays special attention to the drivers for ETA s decline,...