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

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 Trum...

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Published inInternational journal of risk and contingency management Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19
Main Authors Strang, Kenneth David, Korstanje, Maximiliano E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 01.01.2018
Subjects
Antiterrorism measures
Book publishing
Conservatism
Ethical aspects
Human rights
Ideology
Industrialized nations
Muslims
Nonparametric statistics
Philosophy
Political campaigns
Political ethics
Psychologists
Racial profiling
Sanctions
Self defense
September 11 terrorist attacks-2001
Terrorism
Torture
United Kingdom
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2160-9624
2160-9632
DOI:10.4018/IJRCM.2018010101