Tamar Meisels is a Professor of Government and Policy in the Department of Political Science at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

, and a political theorist.

Biography

Her father, Andrew Meisels, is a descendant of the Meisels family and was a foreign correspondent, author, and broadcaster. Her mother Martha Meisels, was a consumer affairs reporter for the ''

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''. She earned a B.A., L.L.B., and M.A. at

, and a Ph.D in Political Theory at Balliol College,

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, in 2000. She works on the political theory of territorial rights, liberal nationalism, and the philosophical questions surrounding war and terrorism. Meisels is known for advocating a consistent and strict definition of

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

, which she defines as "the intentional random murder of defenseless non-combatants, with the intent of instilling fear of mortal danger amidst a civilian population as a strategy designed to advance political ends." She has written on the complexities of applying international law to terrorists, who are neither soldiers nor civilians."Targeted Killing"
, Alia Brahimi, Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, February 10, 2009

Select works

Books

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Territorial Rights
' (2009) *
The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security and the Response to Terrorism
' (Cambridge University Press, 2008) *
"Historical Rights" to Land
' (1999)

Articles

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References

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