Civil liberties, national security and prospects for consensus legal, philosophical, and religious perspectives
The idea of security has recently seen a surge of interest from political philosophers. After the atrocities of 11 September 2001 and 7 July 2005, many leading politicians justified encroachments on international legal standards and civil liberties in the name of security and with a view to protecti...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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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 D. 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 W. Lovin