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Return of Torture (Hardcover)
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Return of Torture (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
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This book provides a brief but wide-ranging history of torture in
Europe and America as well as an analysis of its return in the
aftermath of the 'war on terror'. During the state of exception
declared in the wake of 9/11 2001, the Bush administration
judicially sanctioned interrogation techniques that violated the
ban of torture in US and Public International Law. While Barack
Obama promised to restore the torture ban and habeas corpus, these
practices have in fact expanded under his administration. By which
logic could torture, a practice associated with the autocratic
regimes of medieval and early modern Europe and contemporary
dictatorships be introduced in a liberal democratic system of
justice? What were the roles of public officials, government
lawyers, elected representatives, and professionals (psychiatrists,
behavioural scientists, anthropologists, physicians,
interrogators)? What do we know about those tortured? What does the
return of torture entail for us who are not tortured? What does it
mean for our political system and the future of global order?
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