ISBN : 2296008666
DEFINING THE TERRORIST THREAT IN THE POST- SEPTEMBER 11TH ERA
The counterterrorism policies introduced by most European governments in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks have stirred up many political and academic controversies. In the political realm, their defenders have persistently presented them as vital for the protection of the people and denied any possible jeopardizing of domestic civil rights and liberties, while their opponents have strongly denounced their resulting brisk strengthening of the executive power and the subsequent weakening of human rights and the rule of law 1. In the academic community, several scholars sought to explain this normalization of the exceptional in the Western legal systems and saw in it either a form of ordinary governance 2 or, on the contrary, the emergence of a new form of go-vernmentality 3. Others...