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Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens (Hardcover)
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Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens (Hardcover)
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This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies
responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11.
Did they resist, tolerate or support the Bush Administration's
policies concerning the mistreatment of detainees when their own
citizens were implicated and what were the reasons for their
actions? Australia, the UK and Canada are liberal democracies
sharing similar political cultures, values and alliances with
America; yet they behaved differently when their citizens, caught
up in the War on Terror, were tortured. How states responded to
citizens' human rights claims and predicaments was shaped, in part,
by demands for accountability placed on the executive government by
domestic actors. This book argues that civil society actors, in
particular, were influenced by nuanced differences in their
national political and legal contexts that enabled or constrained
human rights activism. It maps the conditions under which
individuals and groups were more or less likely to become engaged
when fellow citizens were tortured, focusing on national rights
culture, the domestic legal and political human rights framework,
and political opportunities.
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