The Many Faces of National Security in the Arab World

This articles argues (a) that democratic discourse has already become hegemonic among mainstream Islamist movements in Turkey and the Arab world; (b) that while this development originated in tactical calculations, it constitutes a consequential transformation in Islamist political thought; and (c) that this transformation, in turn, raises critical questions about the interaction of religion and democracy with which contemporary Islamists have not yet grappled adequately but which were anticipated by medieval philosophers such as al-Farabi and Ibn Rushd. The argument is laid out through an analysis (based on textual sources and interviews) of key decisions on electoral participation made by Turkey’s AK Party and the Muslim Brotherhoods in Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Particular attention is focused on these movements’ gradual embrace of three key democratic principles: pluralism, the people as the source of political authority, and the legitimacy of such procedural mechanisms as multiple parties and regular elections.

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Governmental Censorship in War-Time

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1949286 ◽

1942 ◽

Vol 36 (5) ◽

pp. 837-849 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Byron Price

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Free Enterprise ◽

Individual Liberty ◽

News Stories ◽

Radio Industry ◽

Democratic Principles ◽

The Many ◽

The Right ◽

Free People ◽

Magazine Articles

To a free people, the very word “censorship” always has been distasteful. In its theory, it runs counter to all democratic principles; in practice, it can never be made popular, can never please anyone.Everything the censor does is contrary to all that we have been taught to believe is right and proper. The Post Office Department, for example, has two proud mottoes: “The mail must go through,” and “The privacy of the mail must be protected at all hazards.” But censorship stops the mail, it invades the privacy of the mail, it disposes of the mail as may seem best. The same thing holds true in the publishing business. Censorship limits the lively competition and free enterprise of reporters. It relegates many a scoop to the waste basket. It wields a blue pencil—both theoretical and actual—on news stories, magazine articles, advertisements, and photographs. Censorship also enters the radio industry, where it may edit scripts and in some cases stop entire programs.Yet even the most vociferous critics of the principle of censorship agree that in war-time some form and amount of censorship is a necessity. It then becomes not merely a curtailment of individual liberty, but a matter of national security. It is one of the many restrictions that must be imposed on people fighting for the right to throw off those restrictions when peace returns.

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Prosecutors and National Security

The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190905422.013.27 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 538-558

Author(s):

Kent Roach

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

National Security ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Ethical Challenges ◽

Criminal Cases ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

The Third ◽

Relative Rarity ◽

The Many ◽

Operational Aspects

This chapter examines the distinct operational and ethical challenges that prosecutors face in national security and especially terrorism cases. The second part of this chapter focuses on the operational challenges that prosecutors face. These include demands for specialization that may be difficult to fulfill given the relative rarity of national security prosecutions; the availability of special investigative powers not normally available in other criminal cases; exceptionally broad and complex offenses; and the demands of federalism and international cooperation. The third part examines ethical and normative challenges that run throughout the many operational aspects of the prosecutorial role in national security cases. These include the challenges of ensuring that often exceptional national security laws are enforced in a manner consistent with the rule of law and human rights. There are also challenges of maintaining an appropriate balance between legitimate claims of secrecy and legitimate demands for disclosure and between maintaining prosecutorial independence and discretion while recognizing the whole of government and whole of society effects of the many difficult decisions that prosecutors must make in national security cases.

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The Making and Breaking of States: The End of Empire in India Revisited

British Academy Lectures 2012-13 ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197265666.003.0006 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Judith M. Brown

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Public Interest ◽

Arab World ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

State And Society ◽

The World ◽

The Many ◽

The Relationship ◽

Imperial State ◽

Second World

Recent events in the Arab world have sharpened and widened public interest in the way states can be broken and made. Since the end of the Second World War the world has seen three great waves of state-breaking and state-making: the end of European empires; the collapse of the Soviet Union; and the contemporary ‘Arab Spring’. By revisiting an example from the first of these great waves, perhaps the greatest ‘imperial ending’—the end of British imperial rule in India in 1947, this lecture investigates issues which may prove instructive in probing the dynamics of other phases of turbulence in the structures and nature of states. It addresses four major questions which are relevant across the many different episodes of state breaking and making, with the help of evidence from the case of the South Asian subcontinent. What is the relationship between state and society and the patterns of relationship which help to determine the nature and vulnerability of the state? What makes a viable and destabilising opposition to the imperial state? What is the nature of the breaking or collapse of that state? How are states refashioned out of the inheritance of the previous regime and the breaking process?

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Israel's National Security Amidst Unrest in the Arab World

The Washington Quarterly ◽

10.1080/0163660x.2012.704342 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 59-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Efraim Inbar

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Arab World

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Les politiques méditerranéennes de l'Espagne à la recherche d'un équilibre entre l'impératif de la sécurité et l'éthique de l'interdépendance (Note)

Études internationales ◽

10.7202/703458ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 315-327

Author(s):

Bernard Labatut

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Arab World ◽

International System ◽

Transition To Democracy ◽

The World ◽

Security Problem ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Many

Franco's Spain flattered itself as enjoying a preferential relationship with the Arab World, as with Latin America as well - a kind of compensation for Spain's lack of normalization within the international System. With its transition to democracy, Spain's place in the world has been redefined and, consequently, so have its relations in the Mediterranean. This has taken place in a context made difficult by Spain's integration into European and Western institutions, an integration that holsters it but no longer lets it take advantage of its different status. This redefinition has also occurred as Spain faces increased risks of destabilization from countries along the southern shoreline, which pose a very direct security problem for Spain. The policies it has implemented expose the divisions between several kinds of logic. They also reveal the many constraints Spain must face in a region split along different lines and in which it finds itself completely immersed.

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