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Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era (Routledge Research in International Law) - Hardcover

Book 7 of 111: Routledge Research in International Law

Chadwick, Elizabeth

 
9780415550048: Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era (Routledge Research in International Law)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415550041 ISBN 13: 9780415550048
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency distorts the laws of armed conflict and of peace alike. As inter-state anti-terrorist co-operation becomes more extensive, the transaction costs of international peace and security between states increase. Modes of domestic state governance are left increasingly to the vagaries of inter-state non-interference in the domestic affairs of each other. The ‘war on terror’ and an increasingly strict, domestic state law-and-order approach to silence political opponents increases the dangers for civilians, eliminates rights, and generates suspect communities. At the same time, public institutions and private corporations are harnessed into the mechanics of a broad project of prevention and control.

Distinctively, the book considers the impact of the recent ‘war on terror’ on the politics of the self-determination of peoples. It draws together issues related to governmental forceful action, an increasing intolerance towards non-state violent acts, the content of international and regional codifications, expansions in state discretion, the encroachment of surveillance powers, and the interaction and overlap between intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era will be of interest to students and scholars of public international law, criminology, comparative criminal justice, terrorism and national security, politics, international relations, human rights, governance and public policy.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Chadwick is Reader in War Law at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415550041
ISBN 13 
9780415550048
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
184