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The Ethics of Counterterrorism (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of Counterterrorism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
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States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting
terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in
which the money should be spent, we are also confronted with a host
of moral issues here, many of which are poorly understood. The
Ethics of Counterterrorism offers the first systematic normative
theory for guiding, assessing, and criticising counterterrorist
policy. Many commentators claim that state actors combating
terrorism should set aside ordinary moral and legal frameworks, and
instead bind themselves by a different (and, generally, more
permissive) set of ethical rules than is appropriate in other
areas. The book assesses arguments for this view, and more
specifically investigates whether widely-endorsed restrictions on
state action in the areas of surveillance, policing, armed
conflict, criminal justice, diplomacy, and cultural integration
need to be weakened when we are confronted with terrorist threats.
With its novel overall framework for assessing counterterrorist
strategies, its comprehensive analysis of existing practices, and
its bringing the tools of analytic philosophy to bear on new
questions regarding how states can fight terrorism both effectively
and morally, The Ethics of Counterterrorism promises to be an
important point of reference for future debates in this area.
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