History of Violence – serie
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Homeland Insecurity
The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law
Av Conor Gearty
Inbunden, 2024
323 kr
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In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world, promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other forms of mass violence. But are we really any safer? Has freedom been secured by active deployment of state …
Why Torture Persists
History of Violence
Inbunden, 2026
304 kr
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Since antiquity, governments have used torture to gather information and determine guilt. But its track record is shaky, to say the least: thinkers from Aristotle to the present have observed that torture does not work, and thinkers from Foucault to Orwell have doubted that this is torture's true …
