Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning Without War

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing First edition; first printing, per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards and green gilt spine lettering. No writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. Overall appears as new and unread. Concludes with a section of Notes and an extensive Index. 210 numbered pages. * In 1998 author Philip B. Heymann (James Barr Ames Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former Deputy Attorney General of the United States) penned ""Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy for a Democratic Society"" (MIT Press, From the jacket flap, ""On September 11, 2001, the United States began to consider the terrorist threat in a new light. Terrorism was no longer something that happened in other countries on other continents but became a pressing domestic concern for the U.S. government and American citizens. The nation suddenly faced a protracted struggle.In [this book] Philip Heymann continues the discussion of responses to terrorism that he began in his widely read ""Terrorism and America."" He argues that diplomacy, intelligence, and international law should play a larger role than military action in our counterterrorism policy; instead of waging ""war"" against terrorism the United States needs a broader range of policies. Heymann believes that many of the policies adopted since September 11 - including trials before military tribunals, secret detentions, and the subcontracting of interrogation to countries where torture is routine - are at odds with American political and legal traditions and create disturbing precedents. He argues that these policies are the logical consequences of the government's declaring its response to terrorism to be a ""war""; unlike conventional wars with more or less clearly defined beginnings, ends, and enemies, the fight against terrorism is open-ended and conducted on multiple fronts against a loosely confederated international network of groups and individuals. Heymann believes that Americans should not be expected to accept apparently indefinite infringements on civil liberties and the abandonment of such constitutional principles as separation of power and the role of law. He argues that the United Stats can guard against the continuing threat of terrorism while keeping its traditional democratic values in place. We need not, he argues., turn the United States into an ""intelligence state"" like the former East Germany.""