Beschreibung:
Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University. He has written extensively in the associated areas of public law, legal theory and international order, and has held visiting positions at universities in Canada, the US, France, Italy and Finland.
Ian Ward places contemporary political and jurisprudential responses to terrorism within a broader literary, cultural and historical context.
Introduction; 1. Terror and the sense sublime; 2. Angry Jove; 3. Voices of the terrified; 4. Where are the women?; 5. Stark humanity; 6. The stuff of nightmares; 7. The devil's big day.