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Democracy and the War on Terror

Civil Liberties and the Fight Against Terrorism

By Leonard Weinberg

To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge – 240 pages

Series: Political Violence

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    Description

    This new volume focuses on the relationships between democratic government, open societies and political terrorism.

    Contents

    1. Introduction 2. Terrorism and the New Democracies 3. Terrorism in Long-Established Democracies 4. Terrorism and the Breakdown of Democracy 5. The Price Democracies Pay for Fighting Terrorism 6. Conclusions

    Author Bio

    Dr.Leonard Weinberg is Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada. Previously, he has been a Fulbright senior research fellow for Italy, a visiting fellow at the National Security Studies Center (University of Haifa), a visiting scholar at UCLA, a guest professor at the University of Florence, and the recipient of an H. F. Guggenheim Foundation grant for the study of political violence. He is author of many books on political science and terrorism, including The Democratic Experience and Political Violence ( 2001,eds., with David Rapoport), The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right (1998, with Jeffrey Kaplan), The Revival of Right-Wing Extremism in the Nineties ( 1997, eds., with Peter Merkl) and The Transformation of Italian Communism (1995).

    Name: Democracy and the War on Terror: Civil Liberties and the Fight Against Terrorism (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: By Leonard Weinberg. This new volume focuses on the relationships between democratic government, open societies and political terrorism.
    Categories: Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns, Terrorism, War & Conflict Studies, Security Studies - Military & Strategic, International Security, Terrorism & Political Violence, Homeland Security