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Emergencies are now a part of everyday life, with breaking news banners streaming across a variety of devices now widely available around the world, and with an increasing sense that the urgent clamor signals a world out of control. It is no surprise, then, that political leaders should wish to take extraordinary steps to indicate that they are in control, that there is a response underway, and that the nation and its citizens will be protected. Of course, skeptics see this as an opportunity for dictators and authority-inclined heads of state to consolidate power and frame their critics as the enemy, allowing for sometimes lethal means of eliminating them.
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Bishai, L.S. (2020). Introduction. In: Bishai, L. (eds) Law, Security and the State of Perpetual Emergency . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44959-9_1
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