The Tensions between "Criminal" and "Enemy" as Categories for Globalized Terrorism

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Grıffıth, James Edmond Carr

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This paper examines the tensions at play in three importantdocuments involved in the 'war on terror': the "Application of Treaties"White House Legal Counsel Memo of 2001, the "National Security Strategy"document of 2002,and the2004 Supreme Court decisionHamdiv.Rumsfeld.Reading these documents, it becomes clearthat thereisan overarchingmisunderstanding and confusion of the traditionallyseparate concepts of 'criminal' and 'enemy' in the struggle against globalized terrorism.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56443

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International Journal of Applied Philosophy

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https://doi.org/10.5840/ijap200620112

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J. E. C. Grıffıth, “The Tensions between “Criminal” and “Enemy” as Categories for Globalized Terrorism,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, pp. 107–126, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56443.