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Cover 1 Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Preface, Acknowledgements 8 Notes on contributors 10 Introduction: some notes on ‘terror’ 14 1. The function of narrative in the ‘war on terror’ 41 Response to Ahdaf Soueif 56 2. Terrorism, war and international law 60 Response to Michael Byers 87 3. Human rights in an age of counter-terrorism 96 Response to Conor Gearty 112 4. Terrorism: reflections on harming the innocent 118 Response to Thomas Pogge 149 5. War/terror/politics 154 Response to Bat-Ami Bar On 169 6. War, terrorism and the ‘war on terror’ 172 Response to Jeff McMahan 198 7. Islamic law, human rights and neo-colonialism 206 Response to Khaled Abou El Fadl 236 8. The threshold of the human: sexual violence andtrauma in the ‘war on terror’ 240 Response to Joanna Bourke 261 9 Defending the transgressed by censuring the reckless against the killing of civilians 266 Index 298 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9780719095184,Language:English,OCLC:960165464 The term ‘War on Terror’ (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics. Here an outstanding group of authors and academics dissect them from ethical, political, legal, economic and historical

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Author
Chris Miller; Amnesty International
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781847794970
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Social Science, Social_sciences

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