A War on Terror?
The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications
Editors: Wade, Marianne, Maljevic, Almir (Eds.)
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- Offers the reader the ability to compare different reactions and responses to terrorism, thereby enriching the dialogue of researchers in their national contexts
- The comparative approach gives a European feel to the book, that is, a feeling for the situation across Europe founded on expert opinions and not just of those countries with the most obviously radical changes
- Includes several national and supra-national developments
- Focuses on the terrorism debate without the USA as a benchmark
- Includes a stance on some of the developments associated with anti-terrorist policies in very different countries with very different legal traditions and social and cultural contexts
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Marianne Wade and Almir Maljevi? Although the worries about terrorism paled in comparison to the economic crisis as a topic during the last US election, one can find plenty of grounds to assume that they remain issue number one in the minds of politicians in Europe. As the German houses of Parliament prepare to call in the mediation committee in the discussion of legislation which would provide the Federal Police – thus far mandated purely with the post-facto investigation of crime – with powers to act to prevent acts of terrorism, Spain’s struggle with ETA and the British Government licks its wounds after a resounding defeat of its latest anti-terrorist proposals by the House of Lords, one cannot but wonder whether post 9/11, the Europeans are not even more concerned with terrorism than their US counterparts. A look at media reports, legislative and judicial activities in either Britain or Germany clearly underlines that those two countries are deeply embroiled in anti-terrorist activity. Can it be that Europe is embroiled in the “War on Terror”; constantly providing for new arms in this conflict? Or is it a refusal to participate in the “War on Terror” that fuels a constant need for Parliaments to grapple with the subject; begrudgingly conceding one increasingly draconian measure after the other? The question as to where Europe stands in the “War on Terror” is a fascinating one, but one, which is difficult to answer.
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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International Terrorism – German Police Perspective: The Current Threat Environment and Counterstrategies from the German Police Perspective
Pages 13-50
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Terrorism and the Internet: New Threats Posed by Cyberterrorism and Terrorist Use of the Internet
Pages 51-78
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The Role of the United Nations in the Prevention and Repression of International Terrorism
Pages 81-106
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The European Union as an Actor in the Fight Against Terrorism
Pages 107-170
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A War on Terror?
- Book Subtitle
- The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications
- Editors
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- Marianne Wade
- Almir Maljevic
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights In India: Aditya Books (P) Ltd., New Delhi, India
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-387-89291-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-0-387-89291-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-89290-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4614-1395-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 554
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