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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458910803321

Titolo

Mapping transatlantic security relations : the EU, Canada, and the war on terror / / edited by Mark B. Salter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-96401-0

1-282-58627-0

9786612586279

0-203-85067-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in liberty and security

Altri autori (Persone)

SalterMark B

Disciplina

355/.031091821

Soggetti

Security, International

National security

Human rights - International cooperation

Terrorism - Prevention - International cooperation

Electronic books.

European Union countries Foreign relations Canada

Canada Foreign relations European Union countries

United States Foreign relations European Union countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Special delivery: The multilateral politics of extraordinary rendition; 2 Miscarriages of justice and exceptional procedures in the "war against terrorism"; 3 Risk-focused security policies and human rights: The impossible symbiosis; 4 The North Atlantic field of aviation security; 5 Tracing terrorists: The European Union-Canada Agreement on Passenger Name Record (PNR) matters; 6 The global governance of data privacy regulation: European leadership and the ratcheting up of Canadian rules

7 Made in the USA?: The impact of transatlantic networks on the European Union's data protection regime8 Norms and expertise in the global fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism; 9 The



accountability gap: Human rights and EU external cooperation on criminal justice, counter-terrorism, and the rule of law; 10 The role of NGOs in the access to public information: Extraordinary renditions and the absence of transparency; 11 Replacing and displacing the law: The Europeanization of judicial power; 12 Transjudicial conversations about security and human rights

13 A coordinated judicial response to counter-terrorism?: Counter-examples14 The other transatlantic: Policies, practices, fields; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic. The complex relationship between liberty and security has been fundamentally recast and contested in liberal democracies since the start of the 'global war on terror'. In addition to recognizing new agencies, political pressures, and new sensitivities to difference, it is important that not to over-state the novelty of the post-9/11 era: the war on terror simply made possible the intensification, expansion, or strengthening of policie