The Trouble with Terror : Liberty, Security and the Response to Terrorism.
Argues that, regardless of its professed cause, terrorism can never be reconciled with liberal morality.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2008
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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; Bibliography; Further sources; Index.
