1st Edition

Human Rights and America's War on Terror

Edited By Satvinder S. Juss Copyright 2019
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biography

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.