The Trouble with Terror

by Tamar Meisels

Book Overview

What is terrorism and can it ever be defended? Beginning with its definition, proceeding to its possible justifications, and culminating in proposals for contending with and combating it, this book offers a full theoretical analysis of the issue of terrorism. Tamar Meisels argues that, regardless of its professed cause, terrorism is diametrically opposed to the requirements of liberal morality and can only be defended at the expense of relinquishing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521728320
• ISBN13: 9780521728324
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"