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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1740-4681
- eISSN
- 1745-5243
- DOI
- 10.1177/174046810600300110
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book Reviews 103 James P. Sterba (ed.), Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 252 pp. ISBN 0195158881 (pbk). Hardback/ Paperback. $45.00/$19.95. Terrorism is not something foreign to the consciousness of US-Americans. The attack on the U.S.S. Cole at the port Aden off the coast of Yemen in 2000, and the US Embassy Bombings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998 stand as two not so distant examples alongside the more familiar Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. Yet the vivid events of 9/11 have made terrorism the focus of deliberation and discussion for an increasing number of Americans, in a way that past terrorist events, both abroad and at home, have failed to. The result is that the need and interest in universities, not only in the USA, but across the world, to address terrorism from a historical, sociological, psychological, political and philoso- phical perspective has become central. However, one finds that for the average university student there does not seem to be that many texts that offer a straight- forward canvass of the central themes at an introductory level. Sterba’s collection Terrorism and International Justice provides a big step
Journal
Journal of Moral Philosophy – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006