Description: This book reviews state responses to terrorist violence and assesses the effects of modern counterterrorism law and policies on democratic states.
Brief description: Andrea Bianchi is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Review Quotes:
"...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." --The Law & Politics Book Review, Vol.19, No.3
"...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." --Italian Yearbook of International Law, Vol XVIII