The Necessary Evil of Preventive Detention in the War on Terror

by Blum, Stephanie Cooper

• ISBN13: 9781604975666
• ISBN10: 1604975660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Cambria Pr

Summary

"This book explores the underlying rationales for preventive detention as a tool in this war on terror; analyzes the legal obstacles to creating a preventive detention regime; discusses how Israel and Britain have dealt with incapacitation and interrogation of terrorists; and compares several alternative ideas to the administration's enemy combatant policy under a methodology that looks at questions of lawfulness, the balance between liberty and security, and institutional efficiency. In the end, this book recommends using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor a narrow regime of preventive detention only to be used under certain prescribed circumstances where interrogation and/or incapacitation are the justifications. This book is an essential reference for collections in American studies, political science, and national security studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Defining the Threat	p. 25
Rationales for Preventive Detention in the War on Terror	p. 51
Lawfulness of Preventive Detention	p. 85
Insight From Israel's and Britain's Preventive-Detention Regimes	p. 117
Methodology for Evaluating Alternative Regimes for Preventive Detention as a Tool in the War on Terror	p. 157
Beyond the Enemy-Combatant Policy: Alternative Approaches for Preventive Detention in the War on Terror	p. 165
Conclusion: Congress, Where Art Thou?	p. 227
References	p. 235
Index	p. 255
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