Challenges to
Democracy
Essays In Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin
Raphael Cohen-Almagor (editor)
London: Ashgate, 2000
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Henry
Hardy
Isaiah Berlin:
A Personal Impression
PART
I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Political Assassination:
A Historian’s Perspective
Eli Barnavi
2. Freedom of Speech: Right or Privilege?
Jack Pole
3. Loyalty, Treason and Sedition in the United States during Crisis Times
Arnon Gutfeld
PART
II: PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVES
4. Tolerance and Emotions
Aharon Ben-Ze’ev
5. Democracy and
Multiculturalism
Will Kymlicka
and Raphael
Cohen-Almagor
6. Challenges to Canadian Liberal Democracy
Warren Kinsella
7. Dominant Political Culture and Political Mutations in Israel
Moshe
Lissak
PART
III: LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
8. Is There a Case for Constitutional Dictatorship in Israel?
Claude Klein
9. Freedom of Expression and Its Limitations
Aharon
Barak
10. The Control of Civil Disorder in Britain
Geoffrey Marshall
11. Reflections on Administrative Detention in Israel:
A Critique
Raphael
Cohen-Almagor
PART IV: POLITICAL AND MEDIA PERSPECTIVES
12. Causes and Results of Political Assassination: On Rabin’s
Legacy
Oded Balaban
13. The Middle Eastern Media Coverage of Prime Minister
Rabin’s Assassination
Saul
Zadka
14. The Boundaries of Liberty and
Tolerance in the Canadian North: Media, Ethics, and the Emergence of the
Inuit Homeland of Nunavut
Valerie Alia
Notes on Contributors
