Understood But Undefined: Why Do Argentina and Brazil Resist Criminalising Terrorism?
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Rebecca Welsh
Candidate and Sessional Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Abstract
This article considers why Argentina and Brazil have resisted global trends and pressures towards the adoption and implementation of laws criminalising acts of terror. It is argued that the development of Argentine and Brazilian understandings of ‘terrorism’, resulting from the considerable experience of each nation with state and insurgent terror, has led to persistent anti-counter-terrorism-law policies. Some lessons are drawn from this discussion to educate the evolution of counter-terrorism law and policy more widely.
About the author
Candidate and Sessional Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Some Constitutional Thoughts about the Islamic Full Veil Ban in Europe
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- Understood But Undefined: Why Do Argentina and Brazil Resist Criminalising Terrorism?
- Notes
- Present and Future Relations between the ECJ and the ECtHR
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