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The Cost Of Confusion: Resolving Ambiguities In Detainee Treatment, Kenneth Anderson
The Cost Of Confusion: Resolving Ambiguities In Detainee Treatment, Kenneth Anderson
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This short policy paper considers US counterterrorism policy with particular attention to treatment of detainees in matters of challenging detention, interrogation, trial of detainees, and release. It analyzes the existing US war on terror and considers future policies that would address both national security concerns and human rights/civil liberties concerns. The paper is written by two experts and advocates in counterterrorism-related issues, coming from the center right and the center left in American politics, as part of a project of the Stanley Foundation, Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide, which publishes papers by pairs of experts coming from conservative and progressive …
U.S. Counterterrorism Policy And Superpower Compliance With International Human Rights Norms, Kenneth Anderson
U.S. Counterterrorism Policy And Superpower Compliance With International Human Rights Norms, Kenneth Anderson
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This essay, originally prepared for a symposium on Guantanamo and international law, provides an brief overview of the elements that a comprehensive US counterterrorism should encompass. This overview is set against the question of how the US, as the world's superpower, ought to address its international law obligations. The essay then sets that question against the still-further question of what it means to be the superpower in a world that some believe is gradually evolving into a multipolar world, but which is currently a world of a conjoined US-international global system of security.
The essay defends the concept of counterterrorism …
Deconstructing Hirota: Habeas Corpus, Citizenship, And Article Iii, Stephen I. Vladeck
Deconstructing Hirota: Habeas Corpus, Citizenship, And Article Iii, Stephen I. Vladeck
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The jurisdiction of the federal courts to consider habeas petitions brought by detainees held as part of the “war on terrorism” has been a popular topic for courts and commentators alike. Little attention has been paid, however, to whether the Constitution itself interposes any jurisdictional limits over such petitions. In a series of recent cases, the US government has invoked the Supreme Court’s obscure (and obtuse) 1948 decision in Hirota v. MacArthur (338 US 197) for the proposition that Article III forecloses jurisdiction over any petition brought by a detainee in foreign or international custody, including that of the “Multinational …
Remarks On Intervention, Juan E. Mendez
Remarks On Intervention, Juan E. Mendez
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