Extraordinary Rendition: Addressing the Challenges of Accountability

ISBN-13: 9780367591281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 328 str.

Elspeth Guild; Didier Bigo; Mark Gibney

Opis

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation of the program and its outcomes. 

Spis treści

Introduction  1: The U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee Report (Feinstein Report) on the CIA Extraordinary Rendition Programme – Perspectives from Europe  2: Dramaturgy of suspicion and the emergence of a transnational guild of extraction of information by torture at a distance  3: Foreign "Liaison Partners" and the CIA's Economy of Detention  4: Extraordinary Renditions: A Practice Beyond Traditional Justice  5: The Polish Roadmap to Accountability: Why the Implementation of Al Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah Judgements is so Highly Problematic  6: The UK: the role of rendition and torture in the battle to end judicial deference  7: Extraordinary Rendition, Secrecy and the UK Security Constitution  8: The Quest for Absolution and Immunity: Justifying Past and Future Torture in the Name of Democracy  9: Extraordinary Rendition, the American Judiciary, and the Failure of the "Territorial" Approach in Both International and Domestic Law  10: Democratic Oversight and the CIA’s Extraordinary Rendition Programme in Europe  11: The International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s preliminary examination on Afghanistan and possible impacts on accountability for secret detention and rendition

O autorze

Didier Bigo is Professor of International Relations (and Maître de conférences des universités) at Sciences-Po Paris, and Researcher at CERI/FNSP. Bigo is also Professor at Kings College London.

Elspeth Guild is a Jean-Monnet Professor of European migration law at the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and a partner at the London law firm Kingsley Napley.

Mark Gibney is the Carol Belk Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina-Asheville and an Affiliated Scholar at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute.