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Comparing the Socio-Political Ethics of Fighting Terrorism With Extreme Self-Defense in USA: An Exploratory Insight

Comparing the Socio-Political Ethics of Fighting Terrorism With Extreme Self-Defense in USA: An Exploratory Insight
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Author(s): Maximiliano E. Korstanje (University of Palermo, Argentina & University of Leeds, UK)and Kenneth David Strang (SUNY Plattsburgh – Queensbury, USA & APPC Research Australia, Australia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 21
Source title: National Security: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7912-0.ch018

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Abstract

In this study the authors adopted a post-positivist research design philosophy to explore the likelihood that Americans would support extreme self-defense policies like torture, reducing human rights or banning Muslims to fight against global terrorism, especially after 9/11 and in light of the Trump conservative government. The authors grounded their research questions into the literature to form hypotheses in a correlational design strategy which they tested using nonparametric statistics. They collected opinions from 3213 Americans during 2016-2017 about applying extreme self-defense tactics to combat global terrorism and how these opinions contrasted between those holding a conservative versus liberal or other individualistic socio-political ideology. The surprising results were that American citizens did not unanimously endorse banning Muslims (only 30% supported the policy and 6% were undecided) but the majority (51%) of participants sanctioned torture as a self-defense to combat global terrorism.

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