Human Rights and America's War on Terror

ISBN-13: 9781138543867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

Satvinder S. Juss

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction; 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: Guantanamo: A Well-studied Trunk;  4: Experimentative Counter-Terrorism Strategies After 9/11: Limitations of Military Responses to Terrorism and Violent Extremism;  5: Interpreting - Again - the Prohibition of Torture;  6: Rendition in Extraordinary Times;  7: The US Torture of Detainees in Black Sites: A Lesson from Great Britain?;  8: Litigation Across Borders: Enforcing Human Rights in Transnational Counterterrorism Operations;  9: Groups and the War on Terror;

O autorze

Satvinder Singh Juss, PhD (Cantab), FRSA, is a Professor of Law at King’s College London, a barrister-at-law practising from 3 Hare Court, Temple, London, and a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (IAC) in London and Birmingham. He is a former Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School, Boston.