Titlebook: Counter-Terrorism Technologies; A Critical Assessmen Peter Lehr Book 2019 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 201

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-95895-2d to evade all other high-tech measures described above without being detected and are now ready to strike. Hence, I will take a look at modern city walls such as the City of London’s ‘Ring of Steel’/Ring of Glass’, at modern citadels such as . in New York, and at barricades (temporarily) deployed to deny access to certain areas.

Eclampsia

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-95895-2easures discussed do not completely eradicate the threat posed by terrorists: they rather displace it to areas just outside the defence perimeters. And thirdly, I point out that some attacks simply cannot be prevented as long as we are not prepared to deploy plenty of sniffers, scanners and other detection devices all over the city.

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Book 2019 It is set against the backdrop of the terrorist threat posed by the combined forces of Al Qaeda and ISIS/Daesh in the foreseeable future.?.The book commences by illuminating current and foreseeable tactics and weapons used by these implacable enemies – weapons that may well include chemical, biolog

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-95895-2 scanners, explosives detection systems, and explosives trace detectors. I also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various systems, in particular highlighting the controversies around the first generation of full-body scanners.

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m to be willing to trade civil liberties for more security. I conclude this chapter by pointing out that we are already on a slippery slope in that regard, sleepwalking away from being citizens of liberal democracies towards being citizens of less liberal states driven by an ‘us versus them’ dichotomy much more pronounced than it is right now.

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to the threat of terrorism. Rather, in my view a ‘hostile architecture’ has emerged that targets everyone who does not fit in. To defend my point of view, I discuss concepts such as ‘defensible space’, ‘a(chǎn)rchitecture of fear’ and ‘a(chǎn)rchipelagos of fear’ in the shape of loosely connected inner-cities citadels and gated communities in the suburbs.

Indigence

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The Quest for Silver Bullets: Implications for Our Construction of Citizenshipm to be willing to trade civil liberties for more security. I conclude this chapter by pointing out that we are already on a slippery slope in that regard, sleepwalking away from being citizens of liberal democracies towards being citizens of less liberal states driven by an ‘us versus them’ dichotomy much more pronounced than it is right now.