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Human rights in the 'War on Terror' /

This book asks whether human rights, since the 9/11 attacks and the 'war on terror, ' are a luxury we can no longer afford, or rights that must always remain a fundamental part of democratic politics, in order to determine the boundary between individual freedom and government tyranny. Thi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilson, Richard, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Order, rights and threats : terrorism and global justice / Michael Freeman
  • Liberal security / Fernando Tesón
  • The human rights case for the war in Iraq : a consequentialist view / Thomas Cushman
  • Human rights as an ethics of power / John R. 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 civil 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 an 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 A. Mertus.