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Reaping What You Sow - A Comparative Examination of Torture Reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel (Hardcover)
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Reaping What You Sow - A Comparative Examination of Torture Reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel (Hardcover)
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This book evaluates the experience of official torture of France in
Algeria, as well as recently, the United States since 9/11, Israel
against Palestinians, and Argentina during its "Dirty War" from
1972 to 1983. While evaluating what information was gained from
torture, the book also shows the costs of undertaking this approach
to interrogating suspected terrorists. Reaping What You Sow: A
Comparative Examination of Torture in France, Argentina, Israel,
and the United States presents a new angle in the study of this
controversial practice by studying how these countries attempt to
account for these secret practices and reform future interrogations
against this universal crime. It also analyzes the costs of
torture, whether in terms of intelligence gaffes or alienating
potential supporters and enemies alike, creating strategic dilemmas
in the war on terrorism. Adopting a comparative approach, the book
studies questions like: What is the harm (or benefit) to the state
once the torture becomes known? What are the political and
strategic ramifications? Does torture help win wars? Can the use of
torture bring about any lasting or beneficial reforms? These are
daring questions seldom pondered. In asking them, this book will
help to foster a discussion that is long overdue. The author
concludes that ex-authoritarian regimes like Argentina's junta and
France's colony in Algeria have reduced torture more than
democracies. These authoritarian regimes collapsed, and new
democratic regimes ultimately discredited their predecessors'
torture. Despite many zigzags in amnesty, Argentina was more
scandalized by torture of its citizens and improved more than
France because the latter's subsequent, Fifth Republic regime was
more similar to the Fourth, protecting many torturers with a
permanent amnesty. Continuous democracies like the United States
and Israel have only reduced their worst torture, while "torture
lite" continues without accountability. The same elected officials
and security agency personnel and prerogatives have largely
remained without any legal discipline for their past, secret,
criminal practices. The United States and Israel continue to
innovate, hide, and resume torture with discretion because the
various new, legislative, judicial, and executive checks and
balances amount to wishful legal statements. Democracies need
permanent accountability mechanisms to assure that security
services abolish torture in practice. Otherwise, torture will
continue to generate more terrorists without generating information
that is consistently reliable.
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