Terror – The Fear Profiteers
Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, Nice, Berlin, Barcelona, London – the web of terror attacks across Europe is growing ever denser: “The fragments of images dissolve into each other, merging in the media perception into a gigantic phantasm – the phantasm of omnipresent violence.” Nearly two decades after the twin attacks on the World Trade Center, the terrorists’ psychological strategy seems to work: “The fear of attacks lives in people’s minds, crawls through their imagination, and controls their expectations.”
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The Power of Terrorism
Andreas Bock
Repressive counterterrorism measures turn the state into the terrorists’ accomplice.
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Terrorism spreads fear and terror through propaganda of the deed – with the help of the media.
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A Counterterrorist Role for National Armed Forces? Current Conflicts and Their Ethical Consequences
Bernhard Koch
The fight against terrorism needs precisely the rules that terrorism seeks to destroy.
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How Should We Resist Terrorism? Some Ideas from Christian Ethics
Katharina Klöcker
Freedom always implies vulnerability.
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The Prohibition of Torture as a Test Case for Security Policy Based on the Rule of Law
Heiner Bielefeldt
There are red lines which a state governed by the rule of law must not cross.
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The Shortsightedness of Fear-Based Counterterrorism Policies that Violate Human Rights: Learning from the U.S. Experience
Rita Siemion and Adam Jacobson
Rash anti-terror measures prove ineffective and place a strain on foreign relations.
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Why Are Young Europeans Joining the Jihad?
Jürgen Manemann
Radicalization’s main causes are psychological and social.
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The European Union should secure refugees’ rights.
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Special: Germany's Counterterrorism Strategies
Terrorism – a Global Challenge . The transnational dangers of ideologically driven violence
Lieutenant Colonel G.S. Martin Lammert
State countermeasures are only effective if they are embedded in internationally coordinated strategies.
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"Freedom and Security Are Not Contradictory"
Rear Admiral Carsten Stawitzki
Soldiers act in the context of the networked approach and serve a peace logic. Not least, they need an ethical foundation on which their profession is built.
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