National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism Edited by Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir 2007, ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-520-09860-2    —   View Table of Contents Published in association with the University of California Press      SUGGESTED CITATION: Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, ed., National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism: University of California Press / UC Global, Area, and International Archive, vol. #5, 2007. http://repositories.cdlib.org/gaia/gaia_books/5 “One of the most acute and lucid analyses of the moral and institutional challenges posed for liberal democratic societies by mega-terrorism. Alison Brysk, Gershon Shafir, and a group of eminent scholars address, with practical understanding and moral insight, the question of how to prevent our reasonable fears for our safety from turning into a moral panic that is incompatible with the effective defense of human rights.” —Tom Farer, University of Denver, former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights All too often, the first casualty of national insecurity is human rights. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the “best-case scenarios” of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany. It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperation are crucial foundations for counterterror policy. ALISON BRYSK is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. GERSHON SHAFIR is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies at the University of California, San Diego.