Trouble With Terror - Liberty, Security and the Response to Terrorism

Informationen zum Autor Tamar Meisels is Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Territorial Rights (2005). Klappentext Argues that, regardless of its professed cause, terrorism can never be reconciled with liberal morality. Zusammenfassung Tamar Meisels argues that! regardless of its professed cause! terrorism can never be reconciled with liberal morality. Calling wholeheartedly for a unanimous liberal front against terrorism! this is a strong and provocative attempt to address the tension between liberty and security in a time of terror. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Defining and Defending Terrorism: 1. Defining terrorism - a typology; 2. The apologetics of terrorism: a refutation; Part II. Freedom, Security, and Rights in a Terrorist Age: Liberal-Democratic Dilemmas: 3. How terrorism upsets liberty; 4. Combatants - lawful and unlawful; Part III. Fighting Terrorism: 5. Targeting terror; 6. Torturing terrorists; 7. Torture and the problem of dirty hands.

Product details

• Authors: Tamar Meisels, Tamar (Tel-Aviv University) Meisels
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521728324
• ISBN: 978-0-521-72832-4
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 223 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education