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  • The Guantanamo Files

    The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

    by Andy Worthington ...
    In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo ... Read more

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  • How to Break a Terrorist

    The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

    by Matthew Alexander, John Bruning ...
    Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority -- trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these "force on force" techniques yielded exactly nothing, and, in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the military rushed a new breed of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Life After Life

    A Guildford Four Memoir

    by Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan ...
    Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Torture Doesn’t Work

    The Neuroscience of Interrogation

    by Shane O'Mara ...
    Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed as a harsh necessity. If cruelty can extract secrets that will save lives, so be it. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Security Games

    Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

    Edited by Kevin Haggerty, Colin Bennett ...
    Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go wrong"; ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Terrorism in East and West Africa

    The Under-focused Dimension

    by Nick Ridley ...
    Since 9/11, despite extensive international efforts against global terrorism, there has been a worrying lack of focus on terrorist activity in Africa. Terrorism in East and West Africa: The Under-focused Dimension addresses this strategic deficit by drawing together and analyzing the various domestic and international counter-terrorist measures that have been carried out in East-West Africa since ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Counter-Terrorism Strategies in a Fragmented International Legal Order

    Meeting the Challenges

    Edited by Larissa van den Herik, Nico Schrijver ...
    Few events have influenced our global order as intensely as the events of September 11, 2001. At various levels in the past ten years, persistent attempts have been made to address the threat of terrorism, yet there is still urgent need for a joint and coherent application of a variety of regulations relating to international criminal justice co-operation, the use of force and international human ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Special Tribunal for Lebanon

    Law and Practice

    Edited by Amal Alamuddin, Nidal Nabil Jurdi, David Tolbert ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law
    This book provides a full analytical overview of the establishment and functioning of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the newest and most controversial of the UN-sponsored international criminal courts. In 2005, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated in a huge blast that reverberated across Lebanon and the region. The Tribunal was established with a mandate to try the perpetrators ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs

    Philosophy for the White House

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror - including the morality and legality of torture, whether security can be 'balanced' with liberty, and the relationship between public safety and individual rights. He has ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror

    The Case of the Sydney Bomber

    Edited by David Tait, Jane Goodman-Delahunty ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies. In a context of heightened fear can juries be trusted to remain impartial when confronted by defendants charged with terrorism? Do they scrutinize prosecution cases carefully, or does emotion trump reason once the spectre of terrorism is invoked? This book examines these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Defining International Terrorism

    Between State Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism

    by Stella Margariti ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book is an attempt to approach the issue of defining international terrorism, proposing that the most workable way to do so is to achieve due balance between the two principal driving forces of international law developments: State sovereignty interests and cosmopolitan ideals.All those who aspire to the promotion of international criminal justice and the fight against impunity agree that the ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Surveillance, Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism

    Edited by Fergal Davis, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law
    The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted to many law enforcement and intelligence agencies.This book brings together leading legal scholars in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD