Terorizam i građanska prava i slobode
Terrorism and Civil Rights and Liberties

Summary/Abstract: Terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 against the United States of America have had global implications. They were seen as attacks on essential values of western civilisation, democracy, open society and civil rights and liberties. In this paper authors analyse security measures and counterterrorist policies of various countries, with the focus on the United States, that followed either as a reaction or as a result of the emergence of a new and global terrorism. Declaration of the permanent state of emergency, significant changes in the state legislation and the suspension or substantial deregation of civil rights and liberties have, as authors argue, remodeled and modified the very foundation of the political community. In other words, the means of the defence had become the strongest instrument of the attacker. Breaches and pivotal points within the international order, emerged due to systemic nation-state's inability to adequately respond to a global and stateless threat, also serve as a warning of emptiness of the concept of rights of man outside of those of the citizen.

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