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America's War on Terror - The State of the 9/11 Exception from Bush to Obama (Hardcover)
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America's War on Terror - The State of the 9/11 Exception from Bush to Obama (Hardcover)
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Following 9/11 the United States faced a situation of exceptional
insecurity. In that period the Bush administration argued that
certain international norms did not apply to US conduct. Its
argument was underpinned by the claim that the United States was in
a state of armed conflict or war with a new kind of enemy. The
purpose of this book is to examine whether this approach outlasted
the moment of insecurity that gave rise to it. More than a decade
on from those attacks, and following a change of administration,
what influence do these arguments have on American policy? To
answer this question it focuses on four areas of policy: the use of
force and the prosecution, detention and interrogation of suspected
terrorists. It demonstrates how the Bush policy programme was
contested by liberals and realists from the outset. Any expectation
that the war on terror would end following the election of
President Obama has, however, proven unfounded. Obama consolidated
the liberal pushback against aspects of the Bush programme but the
US has continued to argue a state of armed conflict exists. The
scope of the battlefield and the definition of the enemy has been a
source of intense debate but the fact that the Guantanamo Bay
detention facility remained open long after the President promised
to close it is indicative of the underlying continuity. It is
argued that this is driven in part by domestic politics and in part
by an understanding of how the terrorist threat is evolving.
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