National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism

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Alison Brysk, Gershon Shafir
University of California Press, 2007 M10 22 - 245 pages
Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the “best-case scenarios” of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany. It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperation are crucial foundations for counterterror policy.

Contributors: Howard Adelman, Colm Campbell, Pilar Domingo, Richard Falk, David Forsythe, Wolfgang S. Heinz, Pedro Ibarra, Todd Landman, Salvador Martí, Daniel Wehrenfennig

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Contents

Protecting Human Dignity
37
Violent Conflict
56
The Continuity of Terror
75
The Curious Debate
92
Democracy Civil Liberties
118
Rights and Countering Terrorist Threats
137
State Responses to Terrorist
157
Human Rights in Hard Times
177
Notes
189
Bibliography
213
Contributors
237
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