Tamar Meisels is Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Territorial Rights (2005).

'The Trouble with Terror addresses an important and controversial topic without pulling punches, but also without losing sight of scholarly values – it has all the force of a polemic, but without the vices thereof.' Chris Brown, London School of Economics

• Introduction; Part I. Defining and Defending Terrorism: 1. Defining terrorism – a typology; 2. The apologetics of terrorism: a refutation; Part II. Freedom, Security, and Rights in a Terrorist Age: Liberal-Democratic Dilemmas: 3. How terrorism upsets liberty; 4. Combatants – lawful and unlawful; Part III. Fighting Terrorism: 5. Targeting terror; 6. Torturing terrorists; 7. Torture and the problem of dirty hands.

Tamar Meisels is Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Territorial Rights (2005).

'The Trouble with Terror addresses an important and controversial topic without pulling punches, but also without losing sight of scholarly values – it has all the force of a polemic, but without the vices thereof.' Chris Brown, London School of Economics

• Introduction; Part I. Defining and Defending Terrorism: 1. Defining terrorism – a typology; 2. The apologetics of terrorism: a refutation; Part II. Freedom, Security, and Rights in a Terrorist Age: Liberal-Democratic Dilemmas: 3. How terrorism upsets liberty; 4. Combatants – lawful and unlawful; Part III. Fighting Terrorism: 5. Targeting terror; 6. Torturing terrorists; 7. Torture and the problem of dirty hands.