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Beyond Human Rights and the War on Terror

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-49807-5 (ISBN)

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This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining the cherished principles of western democracy, free speech and association, and of tolerance, which were central to US values. It is argued that this has led to the US fighting disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to sanctioning the use of torture and imprisonment without trial in Guantanamo Bay, Extraordinary Rendition and Surveillance, and drone attacks. At home, it has resulted in restrictions of civil liberties and the growth of an ill-affordable military and security apparatus. The authors note the irony that the shocking destruction on the World Trade Center on 9/11 should become the justification for the relentless expansion of security agencies. Yet, this is a salutary illustration of how the security agencies in the USA have adopted faulty preconceptions, which have become too embedded within the institution to be abandoned without loss of credibility and prestige. As we approach the twentieth anniversary of that dreadful event on the Twin Towers, the book presents a timely assessment of both the human rights costs of the ’War on Terror’ and the methods used to wage and relentlessly continue that War. To explain an event is not to excuse it. The security behemoth created and enlarged after 9/11 may have its effectiveness in doubt, as this book shows, but that has not prevented it being rejuvenated and expanded.

1. "The ‘Netanyahu doctrine’, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, and the invasion of Iraq"; 2. "United States Legal and Policy Approaches in the Global War on Terror"; 3. "Experimentative Counter-Terrorism After 9/11: Limitations of Military Responses to Terrorism and Violent Extremism"; 4. "Interpreting the Prohibition of Torture"; 5. "Rendition in Extraordinary Times"; 6. "British Rendition for the U.S. in the Chagos Islands"; 7. "Countering Terrorist Organisations in the United States and the United Kingdom"; 8. "Groups and the War on Terror";

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-138-49807-6 / 1138498076
ISBN-13	978-1-138-49807-5 / 9781138498075
Zustand	Neuware