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Moral and Legal Dilemmas of the New Polish Security Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2019

Marek Górka
Marek Górka*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Humanities, Koszalin University of Technology, Kwiatkowskiego 6e, 75-343 Koszalin, Poland. Email: marek_gorka@wp.pl
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Abstract

Due to attacks carried out by terrorist organisations, most European countries have placed this phenomenon at the forefront of their priorities in the field of security policy. The fight against terrorism has sparked a heated debate about the significance of security and civil liberties. The law on anti-terrorist operations of 2 July 2016 triggered the debate in Poland as well. This article attempts to answer the question of whether it is possible to maintain a balance between freedom and security. Therefore, the contemporary challenge that many governments face is not effective terrorist attack prevention, but rather an effective anti-terrorism policy whose provisions will not pose a greater threat to democracy than terrorists themselves.

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European Review , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , May 2019 , pp. 260 - 274
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© Academia Europaea 2019 

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