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Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Security book cover

1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Security

Edited By Leonard Weinberg, Elizabeth Francis, Eliot Assoudeh Copyright 2021
340 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This handbook explores how democracies around the world seek to balance democratic values with the requirement to protect their citizens from the threat of politically motivated violence. Over the past few decades, the majority of the world’s democracies have had to confront serious security threats, and in many instances these challenges have not come from rival states but from violent groups.... Read more

Introduction

Leonard B. Weinberg, Elizabeth A. Francis and Eliot Assoudeh

Part I: Strong Democracies: United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand, Israel

1. Democracy and Security in the United States

Leonard B. Weinberg and Elizabeth A. Francis

2. Surveillance and the Inversion of Democratic Transparency

Sudha Setty

3. National Security and Privacy in the United States through a Litigation Lens

Lawrence Friedman

4. Democracy and Security in the United Kingdom

Leonard Weinberg

5. PREVENT: The United Kingdom Responds to Terrorism

Robin Simcox

6. Immigration and Extremism: Security Challenges for France’s Fifth Republic

Eliot Assoudeh and Juliette Legendre

7. Democracy and Security in Germany Before and After Reunification

Steffen Schneider

8. Patterns of Uncertainty: Security Practices and Quality of Democracy in Italy

Antonio Zotti and Vittorio Parsi

9. Ending ETA’s Terrorism in Spain: Tradeoffs between Democracy and Securitiy?

Rogelio Alonso

10. Finding the Democratic Balance: Australian and New Zealand National Security Coordination

Rouben Azizian and Terry Johanson

11. Israel’s Democracy and Security

Raphael Cohen-Almagor and Amos N. Guiora

Part II: Challenged Democracies: India, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Romania

12. Public Security Challenges in India

Ajay K. Mehra

13. Democracy and Security in South Africa

Jeffrey A. Griffin and Robert L. Ostergard, Jr

14. Democratic Politics in Brazil: Advances in Accountability Mechanisms and regression in Civil-Military Relations

Thomas C. Bruneau

15. Argentina: Old and New Military Missions: Security and Democracy

David Pion-Berlin

16. The Quest for a Tradeoff between Democracy and Security: the Case of Post-Communist Romania

Florina Cristiana Matei

Part III: Fragile Democracies: the Philippines and Nigeria

17. The Philippines Face the New People’s Army: Fifty Years in the Field

Christopher C. Harmon

18. Democracy and Security in Nigeria: A History

Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Jeffrey A. Griffin

19. Security and Rule of Law in Nigeria: The Role of the Nigerian Judiciary

Hon. Ari Tobi-Aiyemo

Biography

Leonard Weinberg is Emeritus Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

Elizabeth Francis is an Associate Professor of English and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

Eliot Assoudeh is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

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