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Precautionary Tales – Missing the Problem and its Cause

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bill Durodié
Bill Durodié*
Affiliation:
Royal Roads University, School of Peace and Conflict Management, Canada
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Extract

Two recently published volumes on the concept of precaution as it is variously understood and applied across the United States and in Europe make for a fascinating comparative analysis. They also respectively offer some undoubted and invaluable insights into the subject. Sadly neither really addresses how precaution came of age or why.

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Book Reviews
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 307 - 309
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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References

1 Frank Furedi, Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right (London / New York: Continuum, 2005).

2 Bill Durodié, “Fear and Terror in a Post-Political Age”, 42(3) Government & Opposition (2007), pp. 427–450.

3 Greg Lukianoff, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate (New York: Encounter Books, 2012).

4 Zaki Laїdi, A World without Meaning: The Crisis of Meaning in International Politics (London/New York: Routledge, 1998) [translated from the French Un Monde Privé de Sens (Paris: Fayard, 1994)].

5 Adam Burgess, Cellular Phones, Public Fears and a Culture of Precaution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).