Tamar Meisels

The Trouble with Terror

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that, regardless of its professed cause, terrorism can never be reconciled with liberal morality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780521728324
• ISBN-10: 0521728320
• Artikelnr.: 24927653

Autorenporträt

Tamar Meisels is Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Territorial Rights (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

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.