Karen J. Greenberg (ed.)

Gebundenes Buch

The Torture Debate in America

Beschreibung

The Torture Debate in America presents the arguments on torture that have been put forth by American lawmakers, human rights activists, and others. It raises the moral, legal and historical questions that have led the US into todays considerations on the use of torture. This is the only collection of essays on the memos and policies that have come to light regarding the use of USs interrogation techniques on detainees suspected of terrorist connections.

Autor

Karen J. Greenberg is the executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. She has a Ph.D. in American political history from Yale and teaches in the European Studies Department at NYU. She is a former Vice-President of the Soros Foundations/Open Society Institute and the founding director of the Program in International Education. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of numerous articles on the United States and Europe during World War II and an editor of the Archives of the Holocaust, Columbia University Series. She is the co-editor of the recently published The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780521857925
• ISBN-10: 0521857929
• Artikelnr.: 21322277