Global Anti-terrorism Law and Policy

by Ramraj, Victor V.; Hor, Michael; Roach, Kent; Williams, George

• ISBN13: 9781107014671
• ISBN10: 1107014670
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-29
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Preventing acts of terrorism remains one of the major tasks of domestic governments and regional and international organisations. Terrorism transcends borders, so anti-terrorism law must cross the boundaries of domestic, regional and international law. It also crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries between administrative, constitutional, criminal, financial, immigration, international and military law, as well as the law of war. This second edition provides a comprehensive resource on how domestic, regional and international responses to terrorism have developed since 2001. Chapters that focus on a particular country or region in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia are complemented by overarching thematic chapters that take a comparative approach to particular aspects of anti-terrorism law and policy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Transnational Perspectives

The United Nations Security Council, terrorism and the rule of law

The impossibility of global anti-terrorism law?

Transplantation

Cross-Cutting Themes

The criminal law and its less restrained alternatives

Anti-terrorism laws: balancing national security and a fair hearing

Legislating anti-terrorism: observations on form and process

The financial war on terrorism

Our responsibility to respect the rights of others: legality and humanity

'Prevent' responses to jihadi extremism

Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy in Asia

Singapore's anti-terrorism laws: reality and rhetoric

Anti-terrorism efforts in Indonesia

The Human Security Act and the IHL law of the Philippines: of security and insecurity

Responses to terrorism in China

Security laws for Hong Kong

Japan's response to terrorism post 9/11

Mapping anti-terror legal regimes in India

Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy in the West

The United States a decade after September 11

UK counter-terror law post 9/11: initial acceptance of extraordinary measures and the partial return to human rights norms

Canada's response to terrorism

Anti-terror legislation in Australia and New Zealand

Anti-Terrorism Measures in the Middle East and Africa

Terrorism and governance in South Africa and eastern Africa

Israel's anti-terrorism law: past, present and future

Rocks, hard places and human rights: anti-terrorism law and policy in Arab states

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