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Civil Society Under Strain - Counter-Terrorism Policy, Civil Society and Aid Post-9/11 (Paperback)
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Civil Society Under Strain - Counter-Terrorism Policy, Civil Society and Aid Post-9/11 (Paperback)
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This is the first book to comprehensively examine the War on
Terror's impact on civil society. Its contributors include
well-known scholars in IR, political science and security studies.
Following George W. Bush's declaration of a global War on Terror in
the wake of the September 11 attacks, political leaders across the
world introduced a swath of counter-terrorist legislation and
measures. Often hastily rushed in, not least to satisfy perceived
public demand for a strong state response, such extraordinary laws
and measures are riddled with ambiguity and trespass unashamedly on
basic democratic rights. In many countries the introduction of such
counter-terrorist measures has fuelled a climate of fear and
suspicion, damaging the efforts of civil society actors. This
edited volume investigates the convergence of aid and security
objectives in the wake of the September 11 attacks. It explores the
effects of this convergence on civil society spaces, actors and
organizations and analyzes the impact of counter-terrorist
legislation, measures, discourses and practices on civil societies
in a range of political contexts. It proposes that the War on
Terror has accelerated the processes of a securitization of aid
that were already underway in the 1990s. The bulk of the literature
on civil society and development relates to the Golden Era of the
1990s. ""Civil Society Under Strain"" brings the discussion into
this newly altered landscape.
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