After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe, and Around the Globe

The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. In the aftermath, the public struggles with unsettling questions: What is the cost of free expression? Do the world’s major cities embrace multiculturalism? Is the broad range of proposed new security measures too intrusive? After the Paris Attacks brings together leading scholars and journalists to respond to this tragedy and to debate how we can reach a safer and saner future. In this timely book, experts from fields such as law, political science, and philosophy grapple with the vital challenges of balancing security, justice, and tolerance, and offer astute and penetrating insights into how the world can best respond to these challenges.

PREFACE Edward M. Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope PART I: Religion, Culture and Pluralism After Paris: Liberalism, Free Speech, Religion, and Immigration in Europe Randall Hansen Free Speech and Civility in Pluralist Societies Simone Chambers The Status of Muslim Minorities Following the Paris Attacks Jeffrey G. Reitz A Tale of Two Massacres: Charlie Hebdo and Utoya Island Mohammad Fadel The (In)Secure Citizen: Islamophobia and the Natives of the Republic after Paris Ruth Marshall Evil as a Noun: Dichotomous Avoidance of Political Analysis Mark G. Toulouse The Search for Equal Membership in the Age of Terror Ayelet Shachar Charlie Hebdo and the Politics of Fear: Questions without Answers Anna C. Korteweg PART II: Geopolitical Effects What Does It Mean to Be at War? Arthur Ripstein After the Paris Attacks: Long Views Backwards and Forwards Ronald W. Pruessen International Law and Transnational Terrorism Jutta Brunnée Looking Back and Looking Forward: Authenticity through Purification Janice Gross Stein PART III: From Headlines to Analysis: The Media After The Paris Attacks: Reflections on the Media Natasha Fatah Journalism and Political Decision-Making in an Age of Crises Brian Stewart PART IV: Canada: Security and Society Legislating in Fearful and Politicized Times: The Limits of Bill C-51’s Disruption Powers in Making Us Safer Kent Roach and Craig Forcese What Lessons Have We Learned about Speech in the Aftermath of the Paris Attacks? David Schneiderman C-51 and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Community: Finding the Balance for Security and Rights Protections Wesley Wark Freedom and Security: The Gordian Knot for Democracies Hugh Segal Anti-Terrorism’s Privacy Sleight-of-Hand: Bill C-51 and the Erosion of Privacy Lisa M. Austin Who Knows What Evils Lurk in the Shadows? Ronald Deibert The Complex Ecology of Policing, Trust, and Community Partnerships in Counterterrorism Ron Levi and Janice Gross Stein Postscript: The Paris Attacks as a Turning Point? Stephen J. Toope