Bibframe Work
TitleEmergencies and politicsTypeTextMonographClassificationLCC: JF256 .S67 2013 DDC: 363.3401 full POL010000 Could not render: bf:statusSupplementary Contentbibliography index ContenttextSummary"In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies which indicates the possibility of a democratic politics that is liberal but that takes seriously threats to life and limb from public disorder, crime or terrorism. Informed by Hobbes, Schmitt and Walzer, but substantially different from them, the book widens the justification for recourse to normally forbidden measures, without resorting to illiberal politics. This book will interest students of politics, philosophy, international relations and law"-- Provided by publisher.Authorized Access PointSorell, Tom Emergencies and politics