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With regard to the issue of whether civil rights may be restricted during terrorist emergencies by adopting such measures as preventive or investigative detention, greater surveillance, and more police powers of search, Ignatieff seeks to articulate a political ethics of 'the lesser evil' as a middle course between civil libertarianism and consequentialism [pp. 7-8]. On his account, the 'pure' civil libertarian denies that new security concerns may ever trump any prevailing civil rights and rejects the argument that temporary suspension of some rights is a lesser evil compared to the great evil of numerous deaths caused by a terrorist attack.

Van der Linden reviews Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy by Benjamin R. Barber.

This collection of the political writings of Kant is part of the new Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.

Intro -- Rethinking the Just WarTradition -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Michael W. Brough, John W. Lango,and Harry van der Linden -- PART 1. Theory -- 1. The Nature of War and Peace: Just War Thinking, Environmental Ethics,and Environmental Justice -- 2. Jus Post Bellum and International Conflict:Order, Justice, and Reconciliation -- 3. Just War Theory and U.S. Military Hegemony -- 4. Generalizing and Temporalizing Just War Principles: Illustrated by the Principle of Just Cause -- PART 2. Noncombatants and Combatants -- 5. Just War Theory and Killing the Innocent -- 6. When Less Is Not More: Expanding the Combatant/Noncombatant Distinction -- 7. Just War Theory and Child Soldiers -- 8. Dehumanization of the Enemy and the Moral Equality of Soldiers -- PART 3. Intervention and Law -- 9. Rethinking the Ban on Assassination: Just War Principles in the Age of Terror -- 10. Preventive War and Lawful Constraints on the Use of Force: An Argument against International Vigilantism -- 11. Faith, Force, or Fellowship: The Future of Right Authority -- 12. Violent Civil Disobedience: Defending Human Rights,Rethinking Just War -- Appendix: Just War Principles: An Introduction with Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.