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The 9/11 effect : comparative counter-terrorism / Kent Roach.
- Title
- The 9/11 effect : comparative counter-terrorism / Kent Roach.
- Author
- Roach, Kent
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xiv, 477 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book examines the responses of the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada responded to 9/11. It also examines how Egypt, Syria, Israel, Singapore and Indonesia had to do comparatively little to respond. The book provides a creitical take on how the United Nations promoted terrorism financing laws and the regulation of speech associated with terrorism while failing to agree on a definition of terrorism or the importance of repecting human rights while combating terrorism. It assesses some failures and challenges of counter-terrorism"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The United Nations responds : security council listing and legislation -- Countries that did not immediately respond -- The United States responds : executive power and extra-legalism -- The United Kingdom responds : a legislative war on terrorism -- Australia responds : hyper-legislation -- Canada responds : border and human security -- Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 9781107006164
- 1107006163
- 9780521185059 (pbk.)
- 052118505X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2011009190
- OCLC
- 706965727
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library