Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Terrorism

by Gabriella Blum, Philip Heymann, Philip B. Heymann

Book Overview

Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and our democratic values.

In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its "global war on terrorism," the Bush administration argued that the United States was in a new kind of conflict, one in which peacetime domestic law was irrelevant and international law inapplicable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518600
• ISBN13: 9780262518604
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher