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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The trouble with terror :/ Tamar Meisels.
Reminder of title:	liberty, security, and the response to terrorism /
Author:	Meisels, Tamar,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Terrorism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511755989
ISBN:	9780511755989 (ebook)

The trouble with terror : = liberty, security, and the response to terrorism /
Meisels, Tamar,

The trouble with terror :liberty, security, and the response to terrorism /Tamar Meisels. - 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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 its professed cause, terrorism is diametrically opposed to the requirements of liberal morality and can only be defended at the expense of relinquishing the most basic of liberal commitments. Meisels opposes those who express sympathy and justification for Islamist (particularly Palestinian) terrorism and terrorism allegedly carried out on behalf of developing nations, but, at the same time, also opposes those who would tolerate any reduction in civil liberties in exchange for greater security. 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.

ISBN: 9780511755989 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

557490
Terrorism.

LC Class. No.: HV6431 / .M435 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 323.325

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