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

    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.

    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.