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This collection of themed essays offers an emphatic defence to the threats confronting our human rights culture. It also offers accounts of how events have impacted on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Iraq and Afghanistan itself, as well as debates about international law, human rights and women's rights.
List of contents
1: Law’s First Strike; 1: The degradation of international law?; 2: Postmodern just wars: Kosovo, Afghanistan and the new world order; 3: Enduring right; 4: The terrors of freedom: the sovereignty of states and the freedom to fear; 2: The Ground of Rights; 5: Cuba and the axis of evil: an old outlaw in the new order; 6: Al Qa’ida: terrorists or irregulars?; 7: International refugee law: excluding the Palestinians; 8: Islamic feminism, possibilities and limitations; 9: The balancing act: counter-terrorism and civil liberties in British anti-terrorism law; 3: Ground Zero’s Prospects; 10: Locating ‘Ground Zero’: caught between the narratives of crime and war; 11: September 11 and American policy in the Middle East; 12: Palestine/Israel: conflict at the crossroads; 13: Jirga: power and traditional conflict resolution in Afghanistan; 14: Islamic law and the English press
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John Strawson
Summary
This collection of themed essays offers an emphatic defence to the threats confronting our human rights culture. It also offers accounts of how events have impacted on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Iraq and Afghanistan itself, as well as debates about international law, human rights and women's rights.
