Terrorismo e traffi co di armi : la Gran Bretagna, l'India e il precedente della Convenzione internazionale del 1937

After the Marseille attack in 1934, in which French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou and King Alexander I of Yugoslavia lost their lives, from 1935 to 1937 the League of Nations worked on drafting the first Convention for the prevention and punishment of international terrorism. Only British India ratified the Convention, which never came into force. Despite this, it represents the most significant precursor of the definition and regulation of international terrorism and of the affirmation of a nexus between arms trafficking and terrorism. Also availing of unpublished diplomatic documents, this essay analyses the debate raging in those years, investigating at the same time how a highly significant chapter in the history of relations between Great Britain and pre-independence India was shaped by the two countries' different political stances and priorities. [Publisher's Text].