AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES IN AN ERA OF TERRORISM; ED. BY DAVID B. COHEN

In light of the ongoing war against terrorism, can the United States maintain its dedication to protecting civil liberties without compromising security? At stake is nothing less than the survival of ideas associated with the modern period of political philosophy: the freedom of conscience, the inviolable rights of the individual to privacy, the constitutionally limited state, as well as the more recent refinement of late modern liberalism, multiculturalism. Contributors evaluate the need to reassess the nation's public policies, institutions, as well as its very identity. The struggle to persist as an open society in the age of terrorism will be the defining test of democracy in the twenty-first century. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Tables......Page 7 Preface......Page 8 Introduction: American National Security and Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorism......Page 10 1 At Odds with One Another: The Tension between Civil Liberties and National Security in Twentieth-Century America......Page 18 2 Protecting (or Destroying) Freedom through Law: The USA PATRIOT Act’s Constitutional Implications......Page 38 3 Presidential Power, Judicial Deference, and the Status of Detainees in an Age of Terrorism......Page 80 4 Activist Judges, Responsive Legislators, Frustrating Presidents: International Human Rights, National Security, and Civil Litigation against Terrorist States......Page 98 5 The Needs of the Many: Biological Terrorism, Disease Containment, and Civil Liberties......Page 114 6 Terrorism, Security, and Civil Liberties: The States Respond......Page 134 7 Air Transportation Policy in the Wake of September 11: Public Management and Civil Liberties in an Authority Centralization Context......Page 156 8 Terrorism, War, and Freedom of the Press: Suppression and Manipulation in Times of Crisis......Page 176 9 At What Price? Security, Civil Liberties, and Public Opinion in the Age of Terrorism......Page 194 10 The Possibility of Dissent in the Age of Terrorism: A First Amendment Problem and a Proposal for Reform......Page 212 11 The Way Forward: Locke or Hobbes?......Page 236 About the Contributors......Page 250 C......Page 253 G......Page 254 M......Page 255 S......Page 256 Z......Page 257

In light of the ongoing war against terrorism, can the United States maintain its dedication to protecting civil liberties without compromising security? At stake is nothing less than whether the ideas associated with the modern period of political philosophy, the freedom of conscience, the inviolable rights of the individual to privacy, the constitutionally limited state, as well as the more recent refinement of late modern liberalism, multiculturalism, can survive. Contributors evaluate the need to reassess the nation's public policies, institutions, as well as its very identity. The struggle to persist as an open society in the age of terrorism will be the defining test of democracy in the twenty-first century.

Edited By David B. Cohen And John W. Wells. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.