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Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in America's Asia Policy (Hardcover)
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Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in America's Asia Policy (Hardcover)
Series: Adelphi series
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This book examines the effects of the terrorist attacks on New York
and Washington of 11 September 2001 on America's human rights and
counter-terrorism policies towards a number of countries in Asia.
Five countries have been chosen for examination, divided into two
front-lines states (Pakistan and Uzbekistan), two second-front
countries (Indonesia and Malaysia), and a third-front country,
China. The paper also looks at changes in US domestic legislation
and its treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in
order to analyse the extent to which the US promotion of an
external human rights policy might also have been compromised by
its own legislative changes as a result of the struggle against
terrorism. The paper concludes that the attacks on US territory,
overall, have constrained America's willingness and capacity to
promote an external human rights policy with respect to these five
countries. However, some attention - especially at the rhetorical
level - to these countries' human rights records has been retained
to differing degrees among the five states. This degree of
difference is not explained entirely in reference to a country's
perceived centrality to the struggle against terrorism. It depends
on the extent to which the US executive and legislative branches
are united - either singly or in combination - in their disapproval
of a state's record, or in their understanding about how best to
reach the policy goals that are sought.
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