Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens

Cynthia Banham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2019
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-3006-7 (ISBN)

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This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11. Did they resist, tolerate or support the Bush Administration's policies concerning the mistreatment of detainees when their own citizens were implicated and what were the reasons for their actions? Australia, the UK and Canada are liberal democracies sharing similar political cultures, values and alliances with America; yet they behaved differently when their citizens, caught up in the War on Terror, were tortured. How states responded to citizens' human rights claims and predicaments was shaped, in part, by demands for accountability placed on the executive government by domestic actors. This book argues that civil society actors, in particular, were influenced by nuanced differences in their national political and legal contexts that enabled or constrained human rights activism. It maps the conditions under which individuals and groups were more or less likely to become engaged when fellow citizens were tortured, focusing on national rights culture, the domestic legal and political human rights framework, and political opportunities.

Dr Cynthia Banham is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, and a Visitor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

1. Introduction
2. Torture and Liberal Democracies
3. Enabling and Constraining Activism
4. America’s Use of Torture After 9/11
5. Australia
6. The United Kingdom
7. Canada
8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-5099-3006-X / 150993006X
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-3006-7 / 9781509930067
Zustand	Neuware