Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenge

Andrea Bianchi is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University, Milan. In 2004 he edited Enforcing International Law Norms against Terrorism (Hart) Alexis Keller is Professor of History of Legal and Political Thought at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. Together with Pierre Allan he has recently edited What is a Just Peace? (Oxford University Press, 2006)

• Part One: The Fight against Terrorism in Historical Perspective 1. Countering Terrorism: A Historical Perspective Adam Roberts 2. Constitutionalising Emergency Powers in Modern Europe: The English and the Roman Model Alexis Keller 3. Liberal State Responses to Terrorism and Their Limits Paul Wilkinson 4. The Role of Modern States in the Decline and Demise of Terrorism Audrey Kurth Cronin Part Two: Balancing Security Concerns and Individual Freedoms 5. Terrorism and Human Rights Paradigms: The United Kingdom after 11 September 2001 Dominic McGoldrick 6. Terror Financing, Guilt by Association and the Paradigm of Prevention in the 'War on Terror' David Cole 7. United We Stand: National Courts Reviewing Counterterrorism Measures Eyal Benvenisti 8. 'The Last Refuge of the Tyrant'?: Judicial Deference to Executive Actions in Time of 'Terror' Iain Scobbie 9. The Abuse of Executive Powers: What Remedies? Christian J Tams 10. The UN Security Council, Counterterrorism and Human Rights Ian Johnstone Part Three: Is There a Need for New Legal Paradigms? 11. Judicial Balancing in Times of Stress: A Comparative Constitutional Perspective Michel Rosenfeld 12. International Law, Counterterrorism and the Quest for Checks and Balances: Why the Calling Sirens of Constitutionalism Should Be Resisted Andrea Bianchi

...an important resource for those who continue working in the area of legal responses to the threat of terrorism - and also those who will come to it in the years ahead...a worthwhile book for those who teach and research the domestic and international challenges and changes ushered in by the 2001 terrorism attacks on the United States. Andrew Lynch The Law & Politics Book Review Vol.19, No.3 (March 18, 2009) ...put simply, such a well-rounded, scholarly and analytical account ought to be recommended reading for any student of liberal democracy's battle against terrorism. Rory Stephen Brown Italian Yearbook of International Law Vol XVIII, 2008