Liberty and Security in the Age of Terrorism, 21-24 October 2010
Liberty and Security in the Age of Terrorism
October 21, 2010
Morehead, Kentucky, USA
October 22-24, 2010
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. –Benjamin Franklin
National security is not an end in itself, but the precondition of an end more valuable: Americans’ common enjoyment of the “Blessings of Liberty.” The appropriateness of measures designed to defeat enemies abroad and ensure domestic tranquility must, therefore, be evaluated in light of the end for the sake of which they are deployed lest our ardor for security erode the liberties our constitutional regime exists above all to protect. At what point is one further increment of security not worth its cost—in terms of resources expended, privacy surrendered, rights infringed upon, and principles betrayed? Calibrating security policy in the age of international terrorism is a difficult task. A theoretical understanding of our regime and its purposes, no less than a prudential assessment of the threats that exist to it today, is more important than ever. The inaugural conference of the Commonwealth Security Studies Laboratory in the College of Business and Public Affairs at Morehead State University is devoted to these themes. The conference committee welcomes the submission of papers addressing the relationship between security and liberty, broadly construed.
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