Tamar Meisels
{{Short description|Israeli political scientist}}
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Tamar Meisels (Hebrew: תמר מייזלס) is a Professor of Government and Policy in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, and a political theorist.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrLGaUvJfykC&q=Tamar+Meisels&pg=PA222 |author= Avery Plaw|title=Targeting terrorists: a license to kill? |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |year=2008 |accessdate=October 21, 2010|isbn= 9780754645269}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7LElgsLetgC&q=Tamar+Meisels&pg=PA183 |author= Daniel A. Bell, Avner De-Shalit|title=Forms of justice: critical perspectives on David Miller's political philosophy|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year= 2003|accessdate=October 21, 2010|isbn=9780742521797}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVIoCtB3m74C&q=Tamar+Meisels&pg=PR26|author=Mark Bevir |title=Encyclopedia of Political Theory |publisher=SAGE |year=2010 |accessdate=October 21, 2010|isbn=9781412958653 }}{{cite journal|title=The Trouble with Terror: The Apologetics of Terrorism–a Refutation |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=465–483 |date=September 2006 |doi=10.1080/09546550600752030 |last1=Meisels |first1=Tamar |s2cid=143391009 }}
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 Jerusalem Post.{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/64149650.html?dids=64149650:64149650&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+16%2C+1997&author=Jay+Bushinsky&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Andrew+Meisels+dies+at+64&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104083912/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/64149650.html?dids=64149650:64149650&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+16,+1997&author=Jay+Bushinsky&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Andrew+Meisels+dies+at+64&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |title=Andrew Meisels dies at 64 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post |date=April 16, 1997 |accessdate=October 21, 2010 |first=Jay |last=Bushinsky}}{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62540502.html?dids=62540502:62540502&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+26%2C+1995&author=Greer+Fay+Cashman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=%27Post%27+columnist+Martha+Meisels+dies+at+57&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714162604/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62540502.html?dids=62540502:62540502&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+26,+1995&author=Greer+Fay+Cashman&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc='Post'+columnist+Martha+Meisels+dies+at+57&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 14, 2012 |title='Post' columnist Martha Meisels dies at 57 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post|date=July 26, 1995 |accessdate=October 21, 2010}}{{cite web |title=Israeli correspondent Andrew Meisels, 64, dies |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F26F030D50E4&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |website=nl.newsbank.com |publisher=The Washington Times |access-date=16 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023191310/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F26F030D50E4&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |archive-date=2012-10-23 |language=en |date=April 16, 1997}}
She earned a B.A., LL.B., and M.A. at Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Political Theory at Balliol College, Oxford University, in 2000.{{cite web |author=Hubert J. Cloke |url=http://bulletin.georgetown.edu/faculty_m.html |title=Faculty |publisher=Bulletin.georgetown.edu |date=June 30, 2010 |accessdate=October 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611003854/http://bulletin.georgetown.edu/faculty_m.html |archivedate=June 11, 2010 }} She works on the political theory of territorial rights, liberal nationalism, and the philosophical questions surrounding war and terrorism.[http://www.jewishpost.com/news/Do-Israeli-jails-prepare-prisoners-for-peace.html "Do Israeli jails prepare prisoners for peace?"], Josh Spiro, Jewish Post''
Meisels is known for advocating a consistent and strict definition of terrorism, 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."[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/MeiselsTheTroubleWithTerror.html "The Trouble with Terror: The Apologetics of Terrorism—a Refutation"], Tamar Meisels, Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2006, pp. 465–83
She has written on the complexities of applying international law to terrorists, who are neither soldiers nor civilians.[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/reports/ht09_meisels.asp "Targeted Killing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725113824/http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/reports/ht09_meisels.asp |date=2011-07-25 }}, Alia Brahimi, Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, February 10, 2009
Select works
=Books=
- Environmental Ethics of War (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
- Debating Targeted Killing: Counter-Terrorism or Extrajudicial Execution? (Oxford University Press, 2020, with Jeremy Waldron)
- Contemporary Just War: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017)
- Territorial Rights (Springer Academic, 2009)
- The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security and the Response to Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
=Articles=
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/13698230903127853|title=Defining terrorism – a typology|year=2009|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy|volume=12|issue=3|pages=331–351|s2cid=144514338}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0841820900004367|title=Torture and the Problem of Dirty Hands|year=2008|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence|volume=21|pages=149–173|s2cid=221021910}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s10982-005-5917-2|title=Combatants – Lawful and Unlawful|year=2007|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Law and Philosophy|volume=26|pages=31–65|s2cid=51729101}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/09546550600752030|title=The Trouble with Terror: The Apologetics of Terrorism—a Refutation|year=2006|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Terrorism and Political Violence|volume=18|issue=3|pages=465–483|s2cid=143391009}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00522.x|title=How Terrorism Upsets Liberty|year=2005|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Political Studies|volume=53|pages=162–181|s2cid=143331719}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.5840/soctheorpract200430320|title=Targeting Terror|year=2004|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Social Theory and Practice|volume=30|issue=3|pages=297–326}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1111/1467-9760.00167|title=Can Corrective Justice Ground Claims to Territory?|year=2003|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Journal of Political Philosophy|volume=11|pages=65–88}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1111/1468-5930.00233|title=Liberal Nationalism and Territorial Rights|year=2003|last1=Meisels|first1=Tamar|journal=Journal of Applied Philosophy|volume=20|pages=31–43}}
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