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Terrorism and Collective Responsibility
The terrorist threat remains a disturbing issue for the early 1990s. This book
explores whether terrorism can ever be morally justifiable and, if so, under what
circumstances.
Professor Burleigh Taylor Wilkins suggests that the popular characterization of
terrorists as criminals fails to acknowledge the reasons why terrorists resort to
violence. It is argued that terrorism cannot be adequately understood unless the
collective responsibility of organized groups, such as political states, for wrongs
allegedly done against the groups which the terrorists represent, is taken into
account.
Terrorism and Collective Responsibility
provides an analysis of various
models of collective responsibility and it reviews recent discussions of military
responsibility and business ethics. The book also explores the problems that
terrorism poses for the just war tradition.
The arguments of prominent philosophers against terrorism are critically
examined and the claim that terrorism necessarily violates the rights of innocent
persons is considered. Wilkins sets forth an original definition of terrorism which
is sure to provoke controversy.
The book is addressed to philosophers, political scientists and general readers
interested in a clear discussion of the moral issues raised by terrorism.
Burleigh Taylor Wilkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of
The Problem of Burke’s Political
Philosophy
and
Has History Any Meaning?
POINTS OF CONFLICT
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beneath the shibboleths of day-to-day debate and controversy on important
social and political topics. Common to all the authors is a view of the importance
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Also available:
Aids and the Good Society
Patricia Illingworth
Understanding War
W.B.Gallie
Terrorism and Collective
Responsibility
Burleigh Taylor Wilkins
London and New York
First published 1992
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge,
a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall Inc.
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© 1992 Burleigh Taylor Wilkins
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or
by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information
storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Wilkins, Burleigh Taylor
Terrorism and collective responsibility.—
(Points of conflict)
I. Title II. Series
363.32
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilkins, Burleigh Taylor
Terrorism and collective responsibility/Burleigh
Taylor Wilkins.
p. cm.—(Points of conflict)
1. Terrorism—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title. II.
Series.
HV6431.W55 1992
303.6’25–dc20 91–16158
ISBN 0-203-16910-7 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-26450-9 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-07186-0 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-415-04152-X (pbk.)

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