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A significant casualty of the struggle against terrorism has been respect for human rights.
A significant casualty of the struggle against terrorism has been respect for human rights. Not only do terrorists cold-bloodedly violate the lives of innocents, but state authorities too stand accused of acting indiscriminately, opportunistically, and illegally in their efforts to counter terrorism. This outcome raises a number of important questions — for example, about definitions of security, and the ethics of state action. For students of International Relations, it also brings into sharp relief the debate over the power of norms: does this damage inflicted upon the human rights idea challenge the notion that norms matter and instead reinforce the argument that the global norms that are of consequence are determined by the most powerful states in the system?
This paper will investigate this and other similar questions via a focus on the counter-terrorist actions of the UN Security Council, most notably through examination of the UN's Counter-Terrorism Committee established under Resolution 1373.
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