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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Fisher; Brian Wicker |
| ISBN: | 9781409408079 1409408078 9781409408086 1409408086 9781409408093 1409408094 |
| OCLC Number: | 540644078 |
| Description: | viii, 231 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: A clash of civilisations? / David Fisher and Brian Wicker -- Pt. 1. The role of religion in shaping terrorism and the responses to it. Terrorism and Islamic theologies of religiously-sanctioned war / Tim Winter -- Challenging Al-Qaʻida's justification of terror / Ahmad Achtar -- Challenging the political theology of America's 'War on terror' / Richard Lock-Pullan -- Pt. 2. Responding to the terrorist threat. Philip Bobbitt's Terror and consent : a brief critique / Michael Howard -- Just war and state sovereignty / Brian Wicker -- Terror and pre-emption : can military pre-emption ever be just? / David Fisher -- How much of our liberties and privacy do we need to give up for public security? / David Omand -- Pt. 3. New ways to counter the threat. Just wars, just outcomes : reconciling just outcomes in military intervention / Shenaz Bunglawala, Rosemary Durward and Paul Schulte -- 'Eating soup with a knife' : counterinsurgency and just war / Hugh Beach -- Going off the reservation into the sanctuary : cross-border counter-terrorist operations, fourth generation warfare and the ethical insufficiency of contemporary just war thinking / Paul Schulte -- Countering the threat of nuclear terrorism / Nick Ritchie -- Pt. 4. Afterword : concluding reflections. A re-emphasis more than a reply / Philip Bobbitt -- Countering terrorism justly : reflections nine years after 9/11 / David Fisher and Brian Wicker. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker. |
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