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Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus

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

Author: Esther D. Reed; Michael Dumper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107008984
Published In: March 2012
Format: Hardback , 280 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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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 protecting the rights of the people. Suggestions were made on both sides of the Atlantic to the effect that the extremism of terrorism required the security of the many to be weighed against the liberties of other citizens. In this collection of essays, Jeremy Waldron, Conor Gearty, Tariq Modood, David Novak, Abdelwahab El-Affendi and others debate how to move beyond the false dichotomy whereby fundamental human rights and international standards are conceived as something to be balanced against security. They also examine the claim that this aim might better be advanced by the inclusion in public debate of explicitly religious voices.

• Multidisciplinary approaches to 'security' will appeal to a specialists in security and human rights as well as policy-makers and think-tanks

• Includes rarely heard religious voices in the debate

• Critiques the dominant discourse that places security and basic freedoms in opposition

• Examines how a number of UK and USA counter-terrorism measures have generated significant controversy in recent years

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: Civil liberties, national security and prospects for consensus: legal, philosophical and religious perspectives Michael Dumper and Esther D. Reed	1
Part I The security–liberty debate	11
1 Safety and security Jeremy Waldron	13
2 Escaping Hobbes: liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age Conor Gearty	35
3 Moderate secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion Tariq Modood	62
Part II Impact on society: the management of unease	81
4 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	83
5 Building a consensus on ‘national security’ in Britain: terrorism, human rights and ‘core values’ – the Labour government (a retrospective examination) Derek McGhee	114
6 Terror, reason and rights Eric Metcalfe	152
Part III Religious dimensions	181
7 Religiously rooted engagement in the relationship between human rights and security: a socio-anthropological approach Charlotte Alfred	183
8 The elimination of mutilation and torture in rabbinic thought and practice: a Jewish comment amidst the civil liberties/national security debate David Novak	210
9 Narrating religious insecurity: Islamic–Western conceptions of mutual threat Abdelwahab El-Affendi	225
10 Security and the state: a Christian realist perspective on the world since 9/11 Robin W. Lovin	241
Index	257