Reimagining the national security state : liberalism on the brink / edited by Karen J. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, Karen J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Law and legislation--United States.

National security.

National security--Law and legislation.

Liberalism.

United States.

Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation--United States.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation.

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.

Counterinsurgency--United States.

Counterinsurgency.

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Liberalism--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory, history, law, and policy, the essays in this volume illuminate the ways in which liberal democracy suffered at the hands of policymakers in the name of national security. The contributors, who are leading experts and practitioners in fields ranging from political theory to evolutionary biology, discuss the vast expansion of executive powers, the excessive reliance secrecy, and the exploration of questionable legal territory in matters of detention, criminal justice, targeted killings, and warfare. This book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil liberties, human rights and, the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.

Contents:

Who's checking whom? / Michael J. Glennon

The deep state vs. the failed state : illusions and realities in the pursuit of security / John Gray

A tale of two countries : fundamental rights in the "War on Terror" / Douglass Cassel

The national security state gone awry : returning to first principles / Loch K. Johnson

The illiberal experiment how Guantanamo became a defining American institution / Michel Paradis

National security and court deference : ramifications and worrying trends / Laura Pitter

The zealotry of "terrorism" / Thomas A. Durkin

Reimagining the national security state : illusions and constraints / Joshua L. Dratel

Beyond the counterinsurgency paradigm of governing : letting go of prediction and the illusion of an internal enemy / Bernard E. Harcourt

Re-establishing the rule of law as national security / Mary Ellen O'Connell

Rethinking the national security state from an evolutionary perspective : a reconnaissance / David Sloan Wilson

After thought : John Berger.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Oct 2019).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108676946

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.