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Tony Coady and Michael O'Keefe eds, Terrorism and Justice: Moral Argument in a Threatened World.

Publication: Journal of Australian Studies
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tony Coady and Michael O'Keefe eds, Terrorism and Justice: Moral Argument in a Threatened World.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 142, pb $24.95, ISBN 0522850499.

At first glance this book threatens to be one of the many published in the post-September 11 period that exists solely to capitalise on the tragedy through the use of the word 'terrorism'. Thankfully, this is definitely not the case in Terrorism and Justice. Indeed, Tony Coady and Michael O'Keefe should be commended for this compilation, where terrorism is analysed from a largely unbiased and unemotional viewpoint--an approach that has been lacking in much work produced by western scholars over the past year and a half. In the preface, the authors acknowledge:

Terrorism is both palpable and elusive. We are confronted...

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