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9780754672777

Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754672777

  • ISBN10:

    0754672778

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-06-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Terrorism and political violence as a field is growing and expanding. This volume, however, provides a cross-disciplinary analysis - political, philosophical and legal - in a single text and will appeal to readers interested in studying this phenomenon from all of these various perspectives. The authors bring their individual specialities to the fore in a concise and easy to follow format. Any reader that has interest in this topic will be captivated by the subject matter.Comprehensive and well informed, this multidisciplinary volume will appeal to a variety of disciplines including sociology, politics, security studies, philosophy, international law, and religious studies. The originality of this volume makes it a valuable addition to a college or university library and classroom.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Terrorism: Causes and Cures
The socio-politics of terror: poverty, evil, statecraft and modernity
An international law approach
Is Torture an Effective Response to Terrorism?
Torture works: but not on terrorists
Torture, tragedy and natural law
Terrorism, torture, and the rule of law
Is International Terrorism an Inevitable Consequence of Globalization?
Legal aspects of globalization
Terrorism, story-telling and existential communication
The politics of religious violence
Counter-Terrorism: Public/Social Policy, Social Engineering and Just War
Bungle in, bungle out, muddle through
Effective counter-terrorism: sound foreign policy, intelligence gathering, policing, social engineering and necessary use of force
Just war and terrorism
Indexes
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