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Editor's Note |
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Restoring the Rule of Law Christopher H. Pyle |
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Torture and the Ideology of National Security Robert Crawford |
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The Illusion of Accountability: The Idea of an American Truth Commission on Torture Stuart Streichler |
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Deconstructing Ticking-Bomb Arguments Catherine McDonald |
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Defusing the Ticking Social Bomb Argument: The Right to Self-Defensive Torture Uwe Steinhoff |
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Torture Writ Large: The Israeli Occupation Louis Frankenthaler |
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The Necessity Defence and the Myth of the Noble Torturer Jessica Wolfendale |
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What Would Jack Do? The Ethics of Torture in 24 Donal P. O’Mathuna |
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The Torturer’s Apprentice: Psychology and ‘Enhanced Interrogations’ Bryant L. Welch |
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Algeria as Template: Torture and Counter-Insurgency War Marnia Lazreg |
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Faith-Based Torture Liaquat Ali Khan |
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Cranking up the Volume: Music as a Tool of Torture Jonathan Pieslak |
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Book Review 'A Long Experience of War': Gaza in Historical Perspective Michael Theodoulou |
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Book Review Harmony amid Diversity: The Importance of Interfaith Dialogue Adina Friedman |
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Book Review Humanity and Its Landscapes: A Green History Holmes Rolston III |
GLOBAL DIALOGUE
Volume 12 ● Number 1 ● Winter/Spring 2010—Working the Dark Side Algeria as Template: Torture and Counter-Insurgency War
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orture defined the Bush administration’s security policy in prosecuting the “war on terror”. Although the Obama administration declared torture illegal, it has yet to outlaw the “extraordinary rendition” programme whereby the United States seizes individuals suspected of acts of terrorism or of collusion with terrorists and delivers them for interrogation to friendly nations that practise torture. Furthermore, although it released evidence of the serious abuse of detainees, the Obama administration has not disbanded special military commissions—trials whose procedures have been criticised for departing...
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