Publication Date
2010
Publication Title
Public Law & Legal Theory
Abstract
Recent high-profile terrorism arrests and litigation in New York, Colorado, and Detroit have brought public attention to the question of how the government should respond to the possibility of domestic-origin terrorism linked to al Qaeda. This symposium essay identifies and discussing one emerging approach in the United States and Europe which attends to the process of terrorist “radicalization.” States on both sides of the Atlantic are investing increasingly in developing an epistemology of terrorist violence. The results have implications for how policing resources are allocated, whether privacy rights are respected, and how religious liberty may be exercised. This essay traces the development of state discourses on “radicalization” in the United States and the United Kingdom. It argues that understanding this new “radicalization” discourse entails attention to interactions between nations and between the federal government and states as well as to the political economy of counter-terrorism.
Number
301
Recommended Citation
Aziz Huq, "Modeling Terrorist Radicalization" (University of Chicago Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No. 301, 2010) available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572873..
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