Franklin Ford and Charles Townshend discuss terrorism and public order, especially as it was playing out in mid-twentieth-century Ireland and the Middle East.
At the time of this interview, Ford, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1983-84), was professor of history at Harvard University. Townshend, a Fellow at the Center (1987-88), was professor of history at the University of Keele.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
