Legitimizing Torture
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Torture And The Ticking Bomb
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Author : Bob Brecher
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Torture And The Ticking Bomb written by Bob Brecher and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Philosophy categories.
This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be countered Takes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian grounds Timely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free style Forms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series
Issues In Terrorism And Homeland Security
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Author : Cq Researcher
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2009-10-15
Issues In Terrorism And Homeland Security written by Cq Researcher and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Political Science categories.
Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security is a supplemental book for undergraduate and graduate courses on terrorism and terrorism/homeland security. It's unique features and benefits include: * Introductions and Overviews * Photos * Key Questions for important issues * Current Situation viewpoints * Pro-Con debates with experts in the field * An Outlook on what the future may hold
Tortured Subjects
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Author : Lisa Silverman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Tortured Subjects written by Lisa Silverman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with History categories.
At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.
Post Ethical Society
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Author : Douglas V. Porpora
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-07
Post Ethical Society written by Douglas V. Porpora and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
We’ve all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interrogation in terms of efficacy and justify drone strikes in terms of retribution and deterrence. But the mainstream secular media rarely addresses the morality of these choices, leaving us to ask individually: Is this right? In this singular examination of the American discourse over war and torture, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, and Alexander Jenkins investigate the opinion pages of American newspapers, television commentary, and online discussion groups to offer the first empirical study of the national conversation about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib a year later. Post-Ethical Society is not just another shot fired in the ongoing culture war between conservatives and liberals, but a pensive and ethically engaged reflection of America’s feelings about itself and our actions as a nation. And while many writers and commentators have opined about our moral place in the world, the vast amount of empirical data amassed in Post-Ethical Society sets it apart—and makes its findings that much more damning.
Beyond Chutzpah
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Author : Norman G. Finkelstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-06-02
Beyond Chutzpah written by Norman G. Finkelstein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-02 with History categories.
This volume corrects the historical record of anti-Semitism, revealing recent scholarly consensus on the hottest issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict, especially human rights.
The Politics Of Pain
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Author : Ronald D Crelinsten
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
The Politics Of Pain written by Ronald D Crelinsten and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Psychology categories.
Although a wave of democratization appears to be sweeping the globe, torture persists in more than seventy-five nations. Despite widespread condemnation of torture and the efforts of international and nongovernmental organizations to end it, the "politics of pain" continues in a broad range of social and political systems. This book is one of the first to systematically examine the psychological, cultural, and social origins of torture. It provides profiles of torturers and of those who direct them in their brutal activities. The contributors provide case studies from the past and present, including Somoza's National Guard in Nicaragua and regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America and in Greece.
Events The Force Of International Law
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Author : Fleur Johns
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-04
Events The Force Of International Law written by Fleur Johns and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-04 with Law categories.
Events: The Force of International Law presents an analysis of international law, centred upon those historical and recent events in which international law has exerted, or acquired, its force. From Spanish colonization and the Peace of Westphalia, through the release of Nelson Mandela and the Rwandan genocide, and to recent international trade negotiations and the 'torture memos', each chapter in this book focuses on a specific international legal event. Short and accessible to the non-specialist reader, these chapters consider what forces are put into play when international law is invoked, as it is so frequently today, by lawyers, laypeople, or leaders. At the same time, they also reflect on what is entailed in naming these ‘events’ of international law and how international law grapples with their disruptive potential. Engaging economic, military, cultural, political, philosophical and technical fields, Events: The Force of International Law will be of interest to international lawyers and scholars of international relations, legal history, diplomatic history, war and/or peace studies, and legal theory. It is also intended to be read and appreciated by anyone familiar with appeals to international law from the general media, and curious about the limits and possibilities occasioned, or the forces mobilised, by that appeal.
The Palestine Yearbook Of International Law 1996 1997
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Author : Academie de Droit International
language : en
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Release Date : 1998-07-01
The Palestine Yearbook Of International Law 1996 1997 written by Academie de Droit International and has been published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-01 with Political Science categories.
When the international legal community seeks definitive information and educated commentary on Palestinian issues it turns to "The Palestine Yearbook of International Law." The ninth volume contains - leading articles on the judicial review in Palestine, on water management, and on the status of Jerusalem; - the texts of Palestinian, Israeli, and U.S. legislation; - the texts of several reports on rights and claims of Moslems and Jews in connection with the Wailing Wall; - a selection of recent book reviews; and - a detailed bibliography. The charged nature of this field heightens the importance of access to quality information. The Palestine Yearbook of International Law supplies topical coverage on a wide range of issues in the field, making it a key resource for international practitioners and academics.
Foundations Of Civil And Political Rights In Israel And The Occupied Territories
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Author : Yvonne Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-05
Foundations Of Civil And Political Rights In Israel And The Occupied Territories written by Yvonne Schmidt and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with Law categories.
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2001 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Vienna, 321 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This work intends to show how civil and political rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories are regulated, which normative standards and spiritual sources nourish them, and how written and unwritten principles are applied and interpreted by the Supreme Court of Israel in pursuance of its self-imposed duty to safeguard the individual's rights and freedoms. The legal system of Israel reflects unresolved conflicts, ambiguities of the state and difficulties connected with the process of nation-building as well as dilemmas concerning the ethnic and cultural identity of the population. From 1517 until 1917 Palestine was ruled by the Turks as part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1917 British troops conquered the territory and in 1922 the League of Nations granted to Great Britain the Mandate over Palestine. Following the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine on 14 May 1948 a large number of British mandatory legislation was absorbed into Israel's legal system. This had and still has far-reaching, restrictive implications for the areas of administrative law and the field of human rights and freedoms. The British mandatory legislation includes security legislation - such as the Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945 - which empowers military commanders as well as the entirely executive branch of the government to impose severe restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms. Despite the enactment of two basic laws on human rights in 1992 many areas, such as personal freedom, freedom of speech and the right of association and assembly are still regulated mainly by British colonial legislation that was never revoked after the establishment of the state of Israel. Since 1948 a permanent state of emergency is in force in Israel. This entitles the
Routine Torture
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Author : Yuval Ginbar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Routine Torture written by Yuval Ginbar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Human rights categories.