Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus : Legal, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives.

Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus : Legal, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives.

Leading scholars engage the false dichotomy whereby 'security' and basic liberties are set in opposition.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reed, Esther D.
Other Authors: Dumper, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
National security > Law and legislation.
Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation.
Terrorism (International law)
Civil rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
LAW > Civil Rights.
LAW > Discrimination.
Civil rights
National security > Law and legislation
Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation
Sécurité nationale.
Terrorisme > Lutte contre.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Security-Liberty Debate
  • Safety and security / Jeremy Waldron
  • Escaping Hobbes : liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age / Conor Gearty
  • Moderate secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion / Tariq Modood
  • Part II. Impact on Society : the Management of Unease
  • From cartoons to crucifixes : current controversies concerning the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression before the European Court of Human Rights / Malcolm Evans
  • Building a consensus on 'national security' in Britain : terrorism, human rights and 'core values' : the Labour Government (a retrospective examination) / Derek McGhee
  • Terror, reason and rights / Eric Metcalfe
  • Part III. Religious Dimensions
  • Religiously rooted engagement in the relationship between human rights and security : a socio-anthropological approach / Charlotte Alfred
  • The elimination of mutilation and torture in rabbinic thought and practice : a Jewish comment amidst the civil liberties, national security debate / David Novak
  • Narrating religious insecurity : Islamic-Western conceptions of mutual threat / Abdelwahab El-Affendi
  • Security and the state : a Christian realist perspective on the world since 9/11 / Robin Lovin.

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