TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sorell,Tom
TI  - Emergencies and Politics: A Sober Hobbesian Approach 
SN  - 9781107360136 (ebook)
AV  - JF256 .S67 2013
U1  - 363.3401 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Rule of law
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360136
ER  -