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Chibli Mallat is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of the European Union at Saint Joseph's University, Beirut.
As the number of deaths from terrorism in Western Europe declines, public alarm about terrorist attacks grows. But citizens should stay calm and not give governments the tools they increasingly demand to win the “battle” against terrorism, crime, or any other technically avoidable misfortune that life throws up.
