ABSTRACT
Global terrorism has had a major impact on human freedom around the world. For democratic states, terrorism poses a major challenge as states seeks ways to provide security for their citizens, while at the same time protecting the broad array of civil liberties that are basic to free societies. Terrorism also presents serious problems for societies that are in transition from autocracy to some form of democratic or quasi-democratic order. In Freedom in the World: 2001-2002, two authorities on various aspects of the terrorist phenomenon set forth their views on critical aspects of the issue. John C. Harrison takes up a much different problem: the balancing act between security and civil liberties in a post-September 11 United States. Harrison reminds us that any serious fight against terrorism on the domestic front will entail some loss of civil liberties.
