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

Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Kenneth David Strang
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Maximiliano E. Korstanje: University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina & University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Kenneth David Strang: School of Business and Economics, State University of New York, Queensbury, NY, USA & APPC Research Australia, Cammeray, Australia

International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management (IJRCM), 2018, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-19

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.

Date: 2018
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