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The Liberal State Response
Cass Series on Political Violence
Routledge
August 2006
On Sale: July 31, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0415384788
EAN: 9780415384780
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Non-Fiction Political
This new, revised and updated edition of Prof. Wilkinson's
acclaimed Terrorism Versus Democracy examines the
problem of liberal democratic response. It draws some key
lessons from the recent experience of democracies, and in
particular from the response of the US, and UK and the
international community to the horrific events of 9/11.
New chapters attempts a candid interim balance sheet on the
success and failures of the War on Terrorism and highlights
major dangers which were emphasized in the first edition,
such as over-reaction, over-reliance on the use of military
force in an effort to suppress terrorism, and the adoption
of measures which involve major curtailments of democracy,
human rights and the rule of law which could undermine the
very democracy one is trying to defend. The author argues
that prior to 9/11 the general international response to
terrorism was one of inconsistency, confusion and
under-reaction. However, at the other extreme, resort to
full-scale war in the name of combating terrorism risks the
sacrifice of far greater numbers of innocent lives than have
ever been killed in non-state terrorist attacks. All these
questions and many others are examined in Terrorism
Versus Democracy.
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