How the gloves came off : lawyers, policy makers, and norms in the debate on torture /
"The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Guantánamo Bay, and far-flung CIA 'black sites' after the attacks of 9/11 included cruelty that defied legal and normative prohibitions in U.S. and international law. The antitorture stance of the United States was brushed aside. Sinc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- History of POW treatment in the United States: from the Revolutionary War to the Korean War
- Modern POW treatment in the United States: the Vietnam War, the Geneva Conventions, and the pre-9/11 era
- POW treatment and lawyers
- POW treatment and policy makers
- POW treatment and interrogators
- Implications and recommendations.