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This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and
detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is
currently occurring in countries across the world from India to
South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia. Bringing together
academics and experts from a variety of jurisdictions, it reflects
upon the impact on human rights of the application of more than a
decade of the "War on Terror" as enunciated soon after 9/11. The
volume identifies and critically examines the principal and
enduring resonances of the concept of the "War on Terror". The
examination covers not only the obvious impacts but also the more
insidious and enduring changes within domestic laws. The rationale
for this collection is therefore not just to plot how the "War on
Terror" has operated within the folds of the cloak of liberal
democracy, but how they render that cloak ragged, especially in the
sight of those sections of society who pay the heaviest price in
terms of their human rights. This book engages with the public
policy strand of the last decade that has arguably most shaped
perceptions of human rights and engendered debates about their
worth and meaning. It will be of interest to researchers,
academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of human
rights law, criminal justice, criminology, politics, and
international studies.
This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining
the cherished principles of Western democracy, free speech and
tolerance, which were central to US values. It is argued that this
has led to the USA fighting disastrous wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq, and to sanctioning the use of torture and imprisonment
without trial in Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition,
surveillance and drone attacks. At home, it has resulted in
restrictions of civil liberties and the growth of an ill-affordable
military and security apparatus. In this collection the authors
note the irony that the shocking destruction of the World Trade
Center on 9/11 should become the justification for the relentless
expansion of security agencies. Yet, this is a salutary
illustration of how the security agencies in the USA have adopted
faulty preconceptions, which have become too embedded within the
institution to be abandoned without loss of credibility and
prestige. The book presents a timely assessment of both the human
rights costs of the 'war on terror' and the methods used to wage
and relentlessly continue that war. It will be of interest to
researchers, academics, practitioners and students in the fields of
human rights law, criminal justice, criminology, politics and
international studies.
This book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the
current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch
out the contours of its future long-term development, in what is
now by all accounts a vastly expanded research agenda.
This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and
detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is
currently occurring in countries across the world from India to
South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia. Bringing together
academics and experts from a variety of jurisdictions, it reflects
upon the impact on human rights of the application of more than a
decade of the "War on Terror" as enunciated soon after 9/11. The
volume identifies and critically examines the principal and
enduring resonances of the concept of the "War on Terror". The
examination covers not only the obvious impacts but also the more
insidious and enduring changes within domestic laws. The rationale
for this collection is therefore not just to plot how the "War on
Terror" has operated within the folds of the cloak of liberal
democracy, but how they render that cloak ragged, especially in the
sight of those sections of society who pay the heaviest price in
terms of their human rights. This book engages with the public
policy strand of the last decade that has arguably most shaped
perceptions of human rights and engendered debates about their
worth and meaning. It will be of interest to researchers,
academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of human
rights law, criminal justice, criminology, politics, and
international studies.
This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining
the cherished principles of Western democracy, free speech and
tolerance, which were central to US values. It is argued that this
has led to the USA fighting disastrous wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq, and to sanctioning the use of torture and imprisonment
without trial in Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition,
surveillance and drone attacks. At home, it has resulted in
restrictions of civil liberties and the growth of an ill-affordable
military and security apparatus. In this collection the authors
note the irony that the shocking destruction of the World Trade
Center on 9/11 should become the justification for the relentless
expansion of security agencies. Yet, this is a salutary
illustration of how the security agencies in the USA have adopted
faulty preconceptions, which have become too embedded within the
institution to be abandoned without loss of credibility and
prestige. The book presents a timely assessment of both the human
rights costs of the 'war on terror' and the methods used to wage
and relentlessly continue that war. It will be of interest to
researchers, academics, practitioners and students in the fields of
human rights law, criminal justice, criminology, politics and
international studies.
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