When States Target Their Own: UK Justification for Violence in N.Ireland, 1969-74

• In Event: State Rhetoric During Contentious Politics

Brief Overview

How do states justify decisions to intern targeted citizens without trial? We use process tracing and NLP techniques on UK government archives (1969-74) to analyze the internal policymaking processes and justifications for interning Irish Catholics.

Authors

• Sarah K Dreier, University of Washington

• Emily Kalah Gade, University of Washington-Seattle Campus