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Identifying Limits on a Borderless Map

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

Richard Falk
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Two requirements have governed my thinking about an appropriate response to the attacks of September 11: the urgent need for action that would greatly reduce the threat of future mega-terrorist incidents, and the necessity of recognizing the appropriate legal, moral, and political limits to waging a defensive war.

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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2002

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References

1 Rashid, AhmedTaliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (New Haven: Vale University Press, 2000Google Scholar).

2 See, for example, Roberts, Adam, “Crisis at Kunduz: The Coalition Must Make It Clear That Surrendering Troops Will Be Treated Humanely,” The Guardian, November 24, 2001Google Scholar; Editorial Board, World Socialist Web site, “U.S. War Crime in Afghanistan: Hundreds of Prisoners of War Slaughtered at Mazar-i-Sharif,” November 27, 2001; also “America's ‘Killing Hour’” Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2001.

3 See Lewis, Bernard, “The Revolt of Islam,” The New Yorker, November 19, 2001, pp. 50–63Google Scholar, especially pp. 60–63; also Lewis, “Did You Say 'American Imperialism?” National Review, October 17, 2001, pp. 26–30.