Being Tough on Terrorism or Respecting Human Rights

A False Dilemma of Authoritarian and Liberal Responses

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3756271
AutoresRein Müllerson (King’s College, London University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen48
Número12
Páginas1626-1656
Fecha de publicación2005-08-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764205278081
OpenAlexW1998161549
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas20

Today the world has become too small to remain too different-liberal-democratic and authoritarian-totalitarian, rich and poor, healthy and mired in epidemics. Such variations also constitute a fertile ground for terrorism. The concepts of East and West, South and North have all emerged as Homo sapiens, starting from an African village, spread throughout the world. Today we are creating the global village of planet Earth. In this village, differences acquired during the millennia of separation and isolation not only enrich humankind but some also can serve as a cause, a catalyst, or a pretext for conflicts, including terrorism. Having dissimilated for millennia, humankind is slowly and often reluctantly assimilating. However, sustainable integration, whether economic or political, is not possible without some kind of assimilation taking place (i.e., integrating entities becoming in some respect similar to each other

Authoritarianism · Biology · Democracy · Development economics · Environmental ethics · Human rights · Humanity · Isolation (microbiology) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pretext · Sociology · Terrorism · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics