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| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford University (Ph.D in Political Theory, 2000) |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of Government and Policy; political theorist |
| Employer | Tel Aviv University |
| Notable work | The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security and the Response to Terrorism (Cambridge University Press 2008) |
Tamar Meisels is a Professor of Government and Policy in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, and a political theorist.
Biography
She earned a Ph.D in Political Theory at Balliol College, Oxford University, in 2000. She works on the political theory of territorial rights, liberal nationalism, and the philosophical questions surrounding war and terrorism.
Meisels is known for advocating a consistent and strict definition of terrorism, which she defines as "the intentional random murder of defenseless non-combatants, with the intent of instilling fear of mortal danger amidst a civilian population as a strategy designed to advance political ends."
She has written on the complexities of applying international law to terrorists, who are neither soldiers nor civilians.
Select works
Books
- Territorial Rights (2009)
- The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security and the Response to Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- "Historical Rights" to Land (1999)
Articles
- "Defining Terrorism–A Typology", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2009, pp. 331–51
- "Torture and the Problem of Dirty Hands", 21 Can. J. L. & Jurisprudence 149, 2008
- "Combatants–Lawful and Unlawful", Law and Philosophy, Volume 26, Number 1, pp. 31–65 (2007)
- "The Trouble with Terror: The Apologetics of Terrorism—a Refutation", Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2006, pp. 465–83
- "How Terrorism Upsets Liberty", Political Studies, Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 162–81, March 2005
- "Targeting Terror", Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 30, 2004
- "Can Corrective Justice Ground Claims to Territory?", Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 65–88, March 2003
- "Liberal Nationalism and Territorial Rights", Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 31–43, January 2003
References
- Do Israeli jails prepare prisoners for peace? Josh Spiro,Jewish Post
- THE TROUBLE WITH TERROR: THE APOLOGETICS OF TERRORISM – A REFUTATION, by Tamar Meisels
- Targeted Killing, Report on a lunchtime seminar, 10th February 2009
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