Original scientific paper

Terrorism and Civil Rights and Liberties

Kruno KARDOV
Ozren ŽUNEC

Abstract

Terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 against the United
States of America have had global implications. They were
seen as attacks on essential values of western civilisation,
democracy, open society and civil rights and liberties. In this
paper authors analyse security measures and counterterrorist
policies of various countries, with the focus on the United
States, that followed either as a reaction or as a result of the
emergence of a new and global terrorism. Declaration of the
permanent state of emergency, significant changes in the state legislation and the suspension or substantial deregation
of civil rights and liberties have, as authors argue,
remodeled and modified the very foundation of the political
community. In other words, the means of the defence had
become the strongest instrument of the attacker. Breaches
and pivotal points within the international order, emerged
due to systemic nation-state's inability to adequately respond
to a global and stateless threat, also serve as a warning of
emptiness of the concept of rights of man outside of those of
the citizen.

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Hrčak ID:

18070

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/18070

Publication date:

31.12.2005.

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