LEGAL CONCEPTIONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY RELEVANT TO COUNTER-TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND POLICY

By Ogechi Joy Anwukah, PhD The attack of 9/11 sparked off some crucial national security questions. One of such question is on how to proficiently counter terrorism without the flagrant violation of human rights by nation states. Unquestionably, issues on ‘terrorism’ and ‘counterterrorism’ are national security issues. Hence, this book investigates the inclination of the European Court of Human Right towards the issues of national security and human rights in the fight against terrorism. This is effected by evaluating the laws of the ECHR. Resultantly, this book sets out to critically review and ultimately revise existing legal/judicial conceptions of “national security”. Therefore, the all-embracing intention of this book is to execute an exhaustive search for the formulation of a comprehensive definition of national security against the background of counterterrorism. To further illustrate the practicality of such a definition in the “fight against terrorism”, the theory of ‘preserva