Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism - The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy

Zusatztext This elegantly written work marshals the disciplines of political theory, moral philosophy and law to show how obscurantist religious extremists must and can be defeated by strategies consistent with the universal values that they hold in such contempt. Informationen zum Autor Dean Farer is a leading scholar in the fields of international law, international relations and human rights. He has been an official in the United States Government's Department of State and Defense, the President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Vice-President of the International League for Human Rights, a Wall Street Lawyer, and legal advisor to the head of the UN's 1993 mission in Somalia. Zusammenfassung Liberal intellectuals and political leaders have been slow to articulate a grand strategy informed by liberal values for confronting global terrorism. This book outlines the framework of a liberal strategy, and exposes the costs of the neo-conservative alternative that has driven US foreign policy since 9/11.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Farer, Tom ( Farer, Tom J. Farer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780199534722
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953472-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law; Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / International, Terrorism, armed struggle, Colonialism and imperialism, Military and defence strategy, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies