Security And Terror

Author : Christophe Paulussen,Martin Scheinin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462653559

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Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism by Christophe Paulussen,Martin Scheinin Pdf

In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem. However, the responses to this phenomenon are often more problematic from a long-term perspective. With the human rights framework under serious pressure, this edited volume offers a timely, important and critical in-depth analysis of human dignity and human security challenges in the lead-up, and in the responses, to current forms of terrorism. It aims to map how human dignity and human security can be secured and how law can constitute a source of trust at a time when Europe and the rest of the world continue to be plagued by terrorism. The authors are both established names and upcoming talent in this fastchanging and exciting field of law. They thoroughly analyse a variety of topical subjects, in more conceptual chapters—for example calling for the humanisation of the security discourse—and in highly practical contributions, in which for instance the Kafkaesque situation in which rendition and torture victim Abu Zubaydah still finds himself today is considered. This book, which focuses on, but is not limited to the situation in Western countries, aims to inspire not only academics—through further theorisation on the sometimes elusive but important concepts of human dignity and human security—but also practitioners working in the field of countering terrorism. It will hopefully convince them (even more) that following a human rights approach will be indispensable in securing human dignity and human security for all. Even—or in fact: especially—in times of terrorism. Christophe Paulussen is a Senior Researcher in the Research Department of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague, The Netherlands and Martin Scheinin is Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the Department of Law of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Author : Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520968158

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Security and Terror by Eli Jelly-Schapiro Pdf

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession. Resisting the assumption that September 11, 2001, constituted a historical rupture, Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terror—from the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. A history of the present crisis, Security and Terror also examines how that history has been registered and reckoned with in significant works of contemporary fiction and theory—in novels by Teju Cole, Mohsin Hamid, Junot Díaz, and Roberto Bolaño, and in the critical interventions of Jean Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and others. In this richly interdisciplinary inquiry, Jelly-Schapiro reveals how the erasure of colonial pasts enables the perpetual reproduction of colonial culture.

Author : Alex J. Bellamy,Roland Bleiker,Sara E. Davies,Richard Devetak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134205424

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Security and the War on Terror by Alex J. Bellamy,Roland Bleiker,Sara E. Davies,Richard Devetak Pdf

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point in international politics, representing a new type of threat that could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based structures of security alone. Opening up interdisciplinary conversations between strategic, economic, ethical and legal approaches to global terrorism, this edited book recognises a fundamental issue: while major crises initially tend to reinforce old thinking and behavioural patterns, they also allow societies to challenge and overcome entrenched habits, thereby creating the foundations for a new and perhaps more peaceful future. This volume addresses the issues that are at stake in this dual process of political closure, and therefore rethinks how states can respond to terrorist threats. The contributors range from leading conceptual theorists to policy-oriented analysts, from senior academics to junior researchers. The book explores how terrorism has had a profound impact on how security is being understood and implemented, and uses a range of hitherto neglected sources of insight, such as those between political, economic, legal and ethical factors, to examine the nature and meaning of security in a rapidly changing world.

Author : John Mueller,Mark G. Stewart
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199795758

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Terror, Security, and Money by John Mueller,Mark G. Stewart Pdf

In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses the common query has been, "Are we safer?" This, however, is the wrong question. The correct question is, "Are any gains in security worth the funds expended?" In this engaging, readable book, John Mueller and Mark Stewart apply risk and cost-benefit evaluation techniques to answer this very question. Cataloging the mistakes that the US has made--and continues to make--in managing homeland security programs, Terror, Security, and Money has the potential to redirect our efforts toward a more productive and far more cost-effective course.

Author : Stanley A. Cohen
Publisher : Markham : LexisNexis Butterworths
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0433447443

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Privacy, Crime and Terror by Stanley A. Cohen Pdf

Author : Yee-Kuang Heng,Ken McDonagh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134028955

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Risk, Global Governance and Security by Yee-Kuang Heng,Ken McDonagh Pdf

This book steers discussion of the 'war on terror' away from the militaristic tinge it has acquired, back to the idea that increased global cooperation and a cosmopolitan agenda would be the best solution to managing globalised risks like terrorism.

Author : Alan Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317051701

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Spaces of Security and Insecurity by Alan Ingram Pdf

Drawing on critical geopolitics and related strands of social theory, this book combines new case studies with theoretical and methodological reflections on the geographical analysis of security and insecurity. It brings together a mixture of early career and more established scholars and interprets security and the war on terror across a number of domains, including: international law, religion, migration, development, diaspora, art, nature and social movements. At a time when powerful projects of globalization and security continue to extend their reach over an increasingly wide circle of people and places, the book demonstrates the relevance of critical geographical imaginations to an interrogation of the present.

Author : Margaret L. Satterthwaite,Jayne Huckerby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136173400

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Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism by Margaret L. Satterthwaite,Jayne Huckerby Pdf

In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for "hearts and minds" have been unleashed. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the aftermath of 11 September 2001 have assumed that men suffer the most—both numerically and in terms of the nature of rights violations endured. This assumption has obscured the ways that women, men, and sexual minorities experience counter-terrorism. By integrating gender into a human rights analysis of counter-terrorism—and human rights into a gendered analysis of counter-terrorism—this volume aims to reverse this trend. Through this variegated human rights lens, the authors in this volume identify the spectrum and nature of rights violations arising in the context of gendered counter-terrorism and national security practices. Introduced with a foreword by Martin Scheinin, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, the volume examines a wide range of gendered impacts of counter-terrorism measures that have not been theorized in the leading texts on terrorism, counter-terrorism, national security, and human rights. Gender, National Security and Counter-Terrorism will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the disciplines of Law, Security Studies and Gender Studies.

Author : Craig Forcese,Kent Roach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552214117

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False Security by Craig Forcese,Kent Roach Pdf

On 20 October 2014, a terrorist drove his car into two members of the Canadian Armed Forces, killing Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent. Two days later, another terrorist murdered Corporal Nathan Cirillo before storming Parliament. In the aftermath of these attacks, Parliament enacted Bill C-51 -- the most radical national security law in generations. This new law ignored hard lessons on how Canada both over- and underreacted to terrorism in the past. It also ignored evidence and urgent recommendations about how to avoid these dangers in the future. For much of 2015, Craig Forcese and Kent Roach have provided, as Maclean'sput it, the "intellectual core of what's emerged as surprisingly vigorous push-back" to Bill C-51. In this book, they show that our terror laws now make a false promise of security even as they present a radical challenge to rights and liberties. They trace how our laws repeat past mistakes of institutionalized illegality while failing to address problems that weaken the accountability of security agencies and impair Canada's ability to defend against terrorism.

Author : Randy K. Lippert,Kevin Walby,Ian Warren,Darren Palmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319432434

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National Security, Surveillance and Terror by Randy K. Lippert,Kevin Walby,Ian Warren,Darren Palmer Pdf

This edited collection brings together leading scholars to comparatively investigate national security, surveillance and terror in the early 21st century in two major western jurisdictions, Canada and Australia. Observing that much debate about these topics is dominated by US and UK perspectives, the volume provides penetrating analysis of national security and surveillance practices in two under-studied countries that reveals critical insights into current trends. Written by a wide range of experts in their respective fields, this book addresses a fascinating array of timely questions about the relationship among national security, privacy and terror in the two countries and beyond. Chapters include critical assessments of topics such as: National Security Intelligence Collection since 9/11, The Border as Checkpoint in an Age of Hemispheric Security and Surveillance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Law Enforcement, as well as Federal Government Departments and Security Regimes. An engaging and empirically driven study, this collection will be of great interest to scholars of security and surveillance studies, policing, and comparative criminology.

Author : Ivelaw L. Griffith
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789766371425

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Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror by Ivelaw L. Griffith Pdf

The security issues which have come into prominence since the September 11 terrorist attack in the USA provide both the starting point and the focus for this comprehensive survey of contemporary security issues in the Caribbean. This volume assesses the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Caribbean states and examines the institutional and operational terrorism response capacity of security agencies in the region. However, understanding security challenge and change in the Caribbean context requires a broad-based multidimensional approach; terrorism for the small, open and vulnerable nation states of the Caribbean region is a real security issue but even more so, is a range of untraditional threats like crime, drug trafficking, territorial disputes, environmental degradation and the rapid spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. How these states adapt policies and practices to adjust to the new regional and global circumstances represent the challenge and the change.

Author : John E. Mueller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781416541714

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Overblown by John E. Mueller Pdf

Proposes that an exaggerated fear of terrorism, fueled by the Bush Adminstration and the terrorism industry, resulted in an unneccessary war and diverted resources that could have been used on a much smaller scale to target and disrupt radical overseas gr

Author : Colleen Bell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774818278

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The Freedom of Security by Colleen Bell Pdf

Post-9/11 security measures have sparked fears that the West is violating the very civil rights it strives to protect. Debates centre on the United States, but how have the politics of security influenced the commitment to freedom in other liberal democracies? Addressing security certificates to the war in Afghanistan to the detainment of Abdullah Almalki, Colleen Bell's wide-ranging analysis demonstrates that Canada's counter-terrorism practices are not a departure from liberal governance but rather a reconfiguration of its structures with an emphasis on security. She traces how the logic and practices of security are increasingly coming to define our rights and freedoms.

Author : Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger
Publisher : The Future of Freedom Foundation
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781890687120

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Liberty, Security, and the War on Terrorism by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger Pdf

In an 1821 Independence Day speech, John Quincy Adams declared, “[America] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.” Much has changed in the past two centuries, and America is now constantly in search of monsters to destroy. History has shown that such an imperial foreign policy is inimical to a peaceful society, and ultimately to individual liberty. Liberty, Security, and the War on Terrorism is a collection of essays that predicted the dire consequences of current U.S. foreign policy before the attacks of September 11, documents the loss of liberty that has ensued in the aftermath, and lays out what the proper role of a peaceful republic should be in a world full of monsters.

Author : Jonathan Randall White
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : 130566020X

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Terrorism and Homeland Security by Jonathan Randall White Pdf