A Positive, Communitarian Right to Security in the Age of Super-Terrorism. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Turner, Ian
• Is Part Of: Democracy and security. Volume 13:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 46
• Page End: 70
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Communitarianism -- human rights -- positive obligations -- right to security; National security -- Periodicals; Democracy -- Periodicals; Terrorism -- Periodicals; 327
• DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2016.1242420
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-9166

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Post-9/11, and especially with the dramatic rise of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the author advocates a collective right to security. Plotting a course through state absolutism and liberalism, one finds communitarianism as a philosophy to support this right to security. The communitarian right to security is based on an interpretation of European human rights law, particularly positive duties of the state, to protect the rights to life of individuals from violations by non-state actors such as suspected terrorists. But for reasons of practical enforcement, limitations to the exercise of the right are also articulated.