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Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens


ISBN13: 9781509930067
Published: July 2019
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2017)
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Hardback edition , ISBN13 9781509906840



The book analyses and compares how the US' liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11. Did they resist, tolerate, or support Bush Administration policies concerning the mistreatment of detainees when their own citizens were implicated, and why?

Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada are liberal democracies sharing similar political cultures and 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.

The 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 extant political opportunities.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Contents:
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