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Title Enemy combatants, terrorism, and armed conflict law [electronic resource] : a guide to the issues / edited by David K. Linnan.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.

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Description vi, 400 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-384) and index.
Contents The press, the presidency, and public opinion since 9/11 : shaping U.S. foreign policy and military strategy / Lowndes F. Stephens -- Muslim perspectives on the invasion of Iraq : informed publics, regime leaders, and Islamic jurists / Shahrough Akhavi -- Contested morality in U.S. foreign policy / Janice Love -- Paradigm shifts, executive power, and the War on Terror / Norman C. Bay -- Promotion of liberal Islam by the United States / John H. Mansfield -- The 9/11 Commission report and public discourse project / Michael Hurley -- International legal limits on the government's power to detain "enemy combatants" / Geremy C. Kamens -- Military commissions : an overview / H. Wayne Elliott -- War, crime, or war crime? interrogating the analogy between war and terror / Miriam J. Aukerman -- Legitimacy and authority in Islamic discussions of "martyrdom operations"/"suicide bombings" / A. Kevin Reinhart -- With a mighty hand : Judaic ethics of exercising power in extraordinary warfare / Jonathan K. Crane -- Jesus and Mars : a brief introduction to the Christian just war tradition / Michael Skerker -- Redefining legitimacy : legal issues / David K. Linnan -- The concept of superior responsibility under international law as applied in Indonesia / Hikmahanto Juwana -- The 2006 conflict in Lebanon, or what are the armed conflict rules when legal principles collide? / George K. Walker -- The legal way ahead between war and peace / Kevin H. Govern -- Discerning justice in the trail and execution of Saddam Hussein / John D. Carlson -- Individual responsibility, tribunals, and truth and reconciliation commissions : are we asking the wrong questions? / David K. Linnan.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- United States.
National security -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
Detention of persons -- United States.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation.
Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
War (International law)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Linnan, David K., 1953-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780275998141 (alk. paper)
0275998142 (alk. paper)

 
    
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