A War on Terror? The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws
Marianne Wade and Almir Maljevi? Although the worries about terrorism paled in comparison to the economic crisis as a topic during the last US election, one can find plenty of grounds to assume that they remain issue number one in the minds of politicians
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A War on Terror? The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications
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A War on Terror?
Marianne Wade • Almir Maljević Editors
A War on Terror? The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications
Editors Marianne Wade Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Freiburg, Germany [email protected]
Almir Maljević University of Sarajevo Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-89290-0 e-ISBN 978-0-387-89291-7 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-89291-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930643 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For all those who suffer because of terrorism including those who face the terror of antiterrorist measures For H.W.R. in memoria And for Noodle: may all those who face dark nights be blessed with such a bright light
Contents
Introduction..................................................................................................... Marianne Wade and Almir Maljević
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Part I A New Threat 1 International Terrorism – German Police Perspective: The Current Threat Environment and Counterstrategies from the German Police Perspective....................................................... Jürgen Stock and Annette L. Herz 2 Terrorism and the Internet: New Threats Posed by Cyberterrorism and Terrorist Use of the Internet............................ Phillip W. Brunst
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Part II The International Front 3 The Role of the United Nations in the Prevention and Repression of International Terrorism............................................ Paul J. Rabbat
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4 The European Union as an Actor in the Fight Against Terrorism....... 107 Thomas Wahl 5 Instruments of International Law: Against Terrorist Use of the Internet..................................................................................... 171 Ulrich Sieber 6 Victims of Terrorism Policies: Should Victims of Terrorism Be Treated Differently?...................................................... 221 Hans-Jörg Albrecht and Michael Kilchling
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Part III The Law Between War and Crime 7 Anti-terrorism Related Criminal Law Reforms and H
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