War on Terror in The US and UK: An Evaluation with Regard to Civil Liberties
War on Terror in The US and UK: An Evaluation with Regard to Civil Liberties

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses anti-terror legislations which are enacted in the US and UK after September 11, 2001. The article searches the answer to the question whether national security should come at the expense of civil liberties in an era often called as ‘the age of terrorism’. Firstly, the notion of terrorism is looked at and then the ‘ war’ on it. The recent anti-terror legislations in the US and UK are elaborated in the third chapter. Last chapter embraces the question whether national security should override civil liberties or vice versa, and questions how contradictory needs of liberal democratic societies are to be reconciled.

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