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Title Human rights in the War on Terror / edited by Richard Ashby Wilson
Published Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description xv, 347 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Order, rights, and threats : terrorism and global justice / Michael Freeman -- Liberal security / Fernando Teson -- The human rights case for the war in Iraq : a consequentialist view / Thomas Cushman -- Human rights as an ethics of power / John Wallach -- How not to promote democracy and human rights / Aryeh Neier -- War in Iraq : not a humanitarian intervention / Kenneth Roth -- The tension between combating terrorism and protecting liberties / Richard Goldstone -- Fair trials for terrorists? / Geoffrey Robertson -- Nationalizing the local : comparative notes on the recent restructuring of political space / Carol J. Greenhouse -- The impact of counter terror on the promotion and protection of human rights : a global perspective / Neil Hicks -- Human rights : a descending spiral / Richard Falk -- Eight fallacies about liberty and security / David Luban -- Our privacy, ourselves in the age of technological intrusions / Peter Galison and Martha Minow -- Are human rights universal in the age of terrorism? / Wiktor Osiatynski -- Connecting human rights, human development, and human security / Mary Robinson -- Human rights and civil society in a new age of American exceptionalism / Julie Mertus
Summary "This volume brings together leading international lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars in the field of human rights to evaluate the impact on human rights of the 'war on terror', as well as to develop a counter-terror strategy which takes human rights seriously. While some contributors argue that war is necessary in defence of liberal democracy, others assert that it is time to move away from the war model towards a new paradigm based upon respect for human rights, an internationally coordinated anti-terror justice strategy and a long-term political vision that can reduce the global tensions that generate a political constituency for terrorists."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human rights.
Civil rights.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Terrorism -- Prevention.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
International law.
Author Wilson, Richard, 1964-
LC no. 2005013325
ISBN 0521853192 (hardcover)
0521618339