United States Legal and Policy Approaches in the Global War on Terrorism

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2018

Publication Title

Human Rights and America's War on Terror

Keywords

9/11 attacks, free speech, tolerance, torture, imprisonment, surveillance, civil liberties

Abstract

This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining the cherished principles of Western democracy, free speech and tolerance, which were central to US values. It is argued that this has led to the USA fighting disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to sanctioning the use of torture and imprisonment without trial in Guantánamo Bay, extraordinary rendition, 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. In this collection the authors note the irony that the shocking destruction of 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.

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. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners and students in the fields of human rights law, criminal justice, criminology, politics and international studies.

ISBN

9781351005661

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: The 'Netanyahu Doctrine', The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, and the invasion of Iraq - Victor Kattan

Chapter 2: United States Legal and Policy Approaches in the Global War on Terror - Milena Sterio

Chapter 3: Guantanamo: A Well-studied Trunk - Joe Margulies

Chapter 4: Experimentative Counter-Terrorism Strategies After 9/11: Limitations of Military Responses to Terrorism and Violent Extremism - Martin Ewi

Chapter 5: Interpreting - Again - the Prohibition of Torture - Stephen Ellmann

Chapter 6: Rendition in Extraordinary Times - Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Alexandra M. Zetes

Chapter 7: The US Torture of Detainees in Black Sites: A Lesson from Great Britain? - Satvinder S. Juss

Chapter 8: Litigation Across Borders: Enforcing Human Rights in Transnational Counterterrorism Operations - Jonathan Hafetz

Chapter 9: Groups and the War on Terror - Steven R. Morrison and Annique M. Lockhard

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