The trouble with terror liberty, security, and the response to terrorism

What is terrorism and can it ever be defended? Beginning with its definition, proceeding to its possible justifications, and culminating in proposals for contending with and combating it, this book offers a full theoretical analysis of the issue of terrorism. Tamar Meisels argues that, regardless of...

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1. Verfasser: Meisels, Tamar (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Defining terrorism
  • a typology
  • The apologetics of terrorism : a refutation
  • How terrorism upsets liberty
  • Combatants
  • lawful and unlawful
  • Targeting terror
  • Torturing terrorists
  • Torture and the problem of dirty hands