{"title":"Judicial Review of Counter-Terrorism Measures: The Israeli Model for the Role of the Judiciary During the Terror Era","authors":"Y. Mersel","doi":"10.4324/9781315085401-14","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Terrorism has become a global phenomenon. It no longer affects just conflict-torn regions and fragile, hypercleavaged societies. Democracies, old and new, face a real challenge in the twenty-first century: how to maintain their democratic structure and principles, on the one hand, while decisively and effectively responding to the terror threat, on the other. As such, democracies have a constant need to balance democratic values and security. The main responsibility for confronting the danger of terrorism falls to the executive branch, and, to a lesser extent, the legislative branch.1 Both are accountable to voters and directly responsible for guaran-","PeriodicalId":82132,"journal":{"name":"New York University journal of international law & politics. New York University. International Law Society","volume":"38 1","pages":"67-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"New York University journal of international law & politics. New York University. International Law Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315085401-14","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Terrorism has become a global phenomenon. It no longer affects just conflict-torn regions and fragile, hypercleavaged societies. Democracies, old and new, face a real challenge in the twenty-first century: how to maintain their democratic structure and principles, on the one hand, while decisively and effectively responding to the terror threat, on the other. As such, democracies have a constant need to balance democratic values and security. The main responsibility for confronting the danger of terrorism falls to the executive branch, and, to a lesser extent, the legislative branch.1 Both are accountable to voters and directly responsible for guaran-