Subtle Tools (eBook)

The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump

Karen J. Greenberg (Autor)

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2021
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21656-0 (ISBN)

Infos

How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itselfIn the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools was brought to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of today's leading experts on the US security state shows how these "e;subtle tools"e; imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from the separation of powers and transparency in government to adherence to the Constitution.Taking readers from Ground Zero to the Capitol insurrection, Karen Greenberg describes the subtle tools that were forged under George W. Bush in the name of security: imprecise language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy, and the bypassing of procedural and legal norms. While the power and legacy of these tools lasted into the Obama years, reliance on them increased exponentially in the Trump era, both in the fight against terrorism abroad and in battles closer to home. Greenberg discusses how the Trump administration weaponized these tools to separate families at the border, suppress Black Lives Matter protests, and attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.Revealing the deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools paints a troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic America where disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain for the law became the new norm, and where the subtle tools of national security threatened democracy itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: abuse of power • Accountability • activism • Aftermath of the September 11 attacks • Aircraft • Al-Qaeda • assassination • At Best • attempt • ballot • By-law • civil service • Cold War (1985–91) • Complaint • Counter-Terrorism • credential • Crime • declaration of war • deference • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals • Deportation • Detainer • Directive (European Union) • Director of National Intelligence • Director of the Central Intelligence Agency • Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation • Donald Trump • Economy of Iran • electoral fraud • enemy combatant • Enhanced Interrogation Techniques • Establishment Clause • Executive Order • Federal government of the United States • Fraud • Gennifer Flowers • George W. Bush • Governor of Oregon • Hillary Clinton • Homeland Security • Homeland Security Act • Illegal Immigration • Immigration • Immigration Policy • Inauguration • injunction • Inspector General • Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant • Islamic terrorism • James Comey • John Ashcroft • Joint session • Law enforcement • Lawsuit • Legislator • Louis Freeh • Michael Chertoff • Military Deployment • mission creep • Muslims (nationality) • national security • National Security Entry-Exit Registration System • Nomination • PATRIOT Act • plaintiff • Politics and the English Language • Posse Comitatus Act • Prisoner of War • proclamation • Prosecutor • Protest • Qasem Soleimani • Recommendation (European Union) • Refugee • Reince Priebus • Robert Bork • Robert F. Kennedy • Rubber bullet • Ryan Crocker • secrecy • solicitor general • Statute • Taliban • Targeted Killing • tear gas • terrorism • Torture • un-american • United States Department of Homeland Security • United States Department of State • unrest • Vetting • Voting • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Waiver • war • warfare • War Powers Resolution • Watergate scandal • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21656-8 / 0691216568
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21656-0 / 9780691216560