Review article

ANTI-TERRORISM - BETWEEN SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY

Saša Šegvić

Abstract

The terrorist attacks on the USA on November 11, 2001 as well as ali later acts and measures undertaken, have again actualized one of the fundamental questions of modern democracy: how and in what way to reconcile the principles of efficacity and democracy under conditions of threatened constitutional order and national security but, that the extraordinary powers given to the executive do not breach the basic constitutional framework and fundamental freedoms and citizen rights.
The author, by analyzing some of the most important Acts of Congress and the President of the United States passed after the terrorist attacks, in this paper attempts to problematize the fundamental challenge facing constitutionally democratic states - security or democracy?

Keywords

anti-terrorism; security; democracy; freedom and rights

Hrčak ID:

37655

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/37655

Publication date:

15.1.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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