208 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political realists correct in arguing that power politics rules?
Barnes argues that despite the torture taboo’s violation, it... Read more
Introduction
- Abolishing Torture
- The Taboo and the Fear of Regression
- The Nuremburg Trials and the Universal Declaration
- Decolonisation and the UN Convention Against Torture
- The Politics of the Definition of Torture
- Torture and the "War on Terror"
Conclusion
Biography
Jamal Barnes is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Australia.
