Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition? As American transforms in the post-Bush era, scholars have begun to assess the post-9/11 period in American foreign and domestic policy, asking difficult questions regarding torture and human rights.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: V. Keating
EAN: 9781137363213
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 4188 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-02-05
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GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Europe, Crime and criminology, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Comparative politics, International relations, Human rights, civil rights
"An excellent study of the Bush administration's attempts to legitimize changes to human rights norms in the international system after 9/11, and, crucially, the limits of its ability to do so." Andrew J. Priest, Lecturer, University of Essex, UK
Vincent Charles Keating is a Lecturer in International Relations at Durham University, UK.
