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customary international law crime sparked controversy. Until then there was a widespread belief that there existed neither an … agreed definition nor an international crime of terrorism. This article first outlines how international law dealt with …’s assessment of the various material sources purportedly evidencing a customary international law crime of transnational terrorism …
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time from treating terrorism as ordinary crime (augmented by sector-specific, transnational treaty offences) to …
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The killing of five young Australian, New Zealander and British journalists at the village of Balibo during the Indonesian invasion of Portuguese Timor in 1975 has long been surrounded by controversy, obfuscation and intrigue. While many suspected that the journalists were deliberately killed by...
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This introductory chapter to this illuminating book offers a timely assessment of the development and proliferation of precursor crimes of terrorism, exploring the functions and implications of these new expanding offences in different jurisdictions. In response to new forms modes and sources of...
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wholly new form of terrorism that demanded a novel response. Given the prior events of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 …
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Because of the difficulties of distinguishing friend and foe, security and insecurity, or even war and peace, terrorism appears to be an endemic and endless risk. The embedded nature of the terrorist risk appears to demand the treatment of one's neighbour as potentially friend and foe. One of...
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The plan of the chapter will involve consideration of terrorism as contrary to cosmopolitanism and then the assessment of counter-terrorism. It is not implied that both aspects are to be equated either in normative or practical terms. The errors of states must not to be endorsed or ignored, but...
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liberty to state interests, without necessarily making the world safer …
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crime of transnational terrorism and applied it in interpreting domestic terrorism offences under Lebanese law. This article …
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