Politics of Prisoner Abuse - The United States and Enemy Prisoners After 9/11

Informationen zum Autor David Forsythe is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Geneva and Utrecht and in 2008 he held the Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair of Human Rights and International Studies at the Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen. He has also been on staff for the United Nations University in Tokyo and has been a consultant to both the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Refugees and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Klappentext A bold critique of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11, which will interest all those who value human rights and humanitarian law. Zusammenfassung When states are threatened by war and terrorism! can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David Forsythe's book is a bold critique of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11! providing an account which will interest all those who value human rights and humanitarian law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Prisoner abuse and political morality in historical perspective; 2. Political morality and the Bush Administration; 3. Bush lawyers: the politics of legal interpretation; 4. The military: Afghanistan, Guantánamo, Iraq; 5. The CIA: kidnapping, Black Sites, extraordinary rendition; 6. Due process: detention classification, Military Commissions; 7. Prisoner abuse and the politics of transnational justice.

Product details

• Authors: David P Forsythe, David P. Forsythe, David P. (University of Nebraska Forsythe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2011
• EAN: 9781107004665
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00466-5
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Human rights & civil liberties law, International Relations, International Law, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, International human rights law