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Richard C. Leone

Bio: Richard C. Leone is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terrorism & Civil liberties. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 69 citations.

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01 Jun 2003
TL;DR: In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness as mentioned in this paper, and today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the tendency to suppress is in the ascendancy.
Abstract: In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. Today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the instinct to suppress is in the ascendancy. Part of the reason for this is the trauma that our country experienced on September 11, 2001, and part of the reason is that the people who are in charge of our government are inclined to use the suppression of information as a management strategy. Rather than waiting ten or fifteen years to point out what's wrong with the current rush to limit civil liberties in the name of "national security," these essays by top thinkers, scholars, journalists, and historians lift the veil on what is happening and why the implications are dangerous and disturbing and ultimately destructive of American values and ideals. Without our even being aware, the judiciary is being undermined, the press is being intimidated, racial profiling is rampant, and our privacy is being invaded. The "war on our freedoms " is just as real as the "war on terror "-and, in the end, just as dangerous.

66 citations

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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: This article set out the key critical facts about the issue and its future, while highlighting widely-repeated, but inaccurate claims about the social security system, and highlighted widely-used but inaccurate assumptions about the system.
Abstract: In the US, the current debate over social security reform is complex due to contradictory and misleading political rhetoric. This book sets out the key critical facts about the issue and its future, while highlighting widely-repeated, but inaccurate claims about the social security system.

3 citations


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Louise Amoore1
TL;DR: The concept of the biometric border was proposed in this paper to signal a dual-faced phenomenon in the contemporary war on terror: the turn to scientific technologies and managerial expertise in the politics of border management; and the exercise of biopower such that the bodies of migrants and travellers themselves become sites of multiple encoded boundaries.

786 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that affect-based decisions about climate change are unlikely to motivate significant action, as politicians and the general public are not particularly worried about climate risks, and because attempts to scare people into greater action may have unintended negative consequences.
Abstract: Climatechange,asaslowandgradualmodificationofaverageclimateconditions,is adifficultphenomenontodetectandtrackaccuratelybasedonpersonalexperience. Insufficient concern and trust also complicate the transfer of scientific descriptions of climate change and climate variability from scientists to the public, politicians, and policy makers, which is not a simple transmission of facts. Instead, worldview and political ideology, two elements of the cultural context of decisions, guide attention toward events that threaten the desired or existing social order, and shape expectations of change, which in turn guide the detection and interpretation of climate events. Action that follows from climate change perceptions can be informed by different processes. Affect-based decisions about climate change are unlikely to motivate significant action, as politicians and the general public are not particularly worried about climate risks, and because attempts to scare people into greater action may have unintended negative consequences. Analysisbased decisions are also unlikely to result in significant action, because of large discounting of uncertain future costs of climate risks compared to the certain and immediate costsof climate change mitigation. Rule-based decisions that determine behavior based on moral or social responsibility may hold out the best prospects for sustainable action.  2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs Clim Change 2010 1 332‐342

714 citations

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Jim Ife1
05 Jun 2012
TL;DR: Human Rights and Social Work as mentioned in this paper explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice and considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging.
Abstract: Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the first edition in 2000 and this book is situated firmly within the context of present-day debates, concerns and crises. Ife covers the importance of relating human rights to the non-human world, as well as the consequences of political and ecological uncertainty. Featuring examples, further readings and a glossary, readers are able to identify and investigate the important issues and questions arising from human rights and social work. Now more than ever, Human Rights and Social Work is an indispensable resource for students, scholars and practitioners alike.

580 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, Agamben suggests that under present conditions "we will have to abandon decidedly, without reservation, the fundamental concepts through which we have so far represented the subjects of the political (Man, the Citizen and its rights, but also the sovereign people, the worker, and so forth) and build our political philosophy anew starting from the one and only figure of the refugee".
Abstract: In Means without End, the theoretical précis of his Homo Sacer tetralogy,1 Giorgio Agamben suggests that under present conditions “we will have to abandon decidedly, without reservation, the fundamental concepts through which we have so far represented the subjects of the political (Man, the Citizen and its rights, but also the sovereign people, the worker, and so forth) and build our political philosophy anew starting from the one and only figure of the refugee.”2 The proposal derives from a paramount concern to counteract the increasing institutionalization of the state of exception throughout the political-juridical order of the modern nation-states, and it is premised on an understanding of the refugee as a limit-concept, a figure that “at once brings a radical crisis to the principles of the nation-state and clears the way for a renewal of categories that can no longer be delayed.”3 This urgent renewal of categories is made possible by the conceptual crisis of the nation-state represented by the refugee insofar as she disarticulates “the trinity of state-nation-territory” and “the very principle of the inscription of nativity” upon which it is based.4 The refugee is the contemporary political subject par excellence because she exposes to view “the originary fiction of sovereignty” and thereby renders it available to thought. People-of-Color-Blindness

229 citations

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TL;DR: The sociology of terrorism has been understudied, even though considerable literatures on various forms of social conflict and violence have been produced over the years as discussed by the authors, and the aim here is to note what has been learned about the social origins and dynamics of terrorism in order to suggest agendas for future research.
Abstract: The sociology of terrorism has been understudied, even though considerable literatures on various forms of social conflict and violence have been produced over the years. The aim here is to note what has been learned about the social origins and dynamics of terrorism in order to suggest agendas for future research. Arguably the main foci of sociological studies of terrorism should be (a) the social construction of terrorism, (b) terrorism as political violence, (c) terrorism as communication, (d) organizing terrorism, (e) socializing terrorists, (f) social control of terrorism, and (g) theorizing terrorism. For each issue, I provide a brief summary of current knowledge, with bibliographic leads to more detailed information, as well as identify research issues.

200 citations