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First published in 2020 by Polity Press

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Names: Lenard, Patti Tamara, 1975- author.
Title: How should democracies fight terrorism? / Patti Tamara Lenard.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020. | Series: Political theory today | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “Why our democratic values shouldn’t be sacrificed on the altar of national security”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020000160 | ISBN 9781509540754 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509540761 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509540778 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Terrorism--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects. | Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Classification: LCC HV6431 .L456 2020 | DDC 363.325/16--dc23
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Acknowledgments

I began drafting the text that turned into this book while visiting the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics in early 2019, and I am very grateful to the welcoming faculty and students there. Margaret Moore and David Miller read early drafts and I am indebted to them for their critical comments. Peter Balint read and offered comments on chapter 3 when I was feeling especially unsatisfied with it. The earliest of my work on questions of security was done in collaboration with my colleague Wesley Wark, who read a late version of the manuscript and offered the critical suggestions that only an expert in national security can do. The original account of the security test was developed in collaboration with Terry Macdonald, in an article published in Perspectives on Politics. Three reviewers for Polity Press, and George Owers and Julia Davies, offered wonderfully helpful comments on the manuscript. Finally, my partner-in-all-things, Jacob Krich, read and commented on the first version of this manuscript, and most of the last, and never (ever) tired of going through each detail of the argument with me. There are no words adequate to thank him for all that he has done, and continues every day to do, for me and the sweet family that we are building together.