03056nam 22005531 450 991016276250332120200514202323.01-5099-0685-11-5099-0682-710.5040/9781509906857(CKB)3710000001044849(MiAaPQ)EBC4798633(OCoLC)959965634(UtOrBLW)bpp09260739(EXLCZ)99371000000104484920170524d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLiberal democracies and the torture of their citizens /Cynthia BanhamOxford [UK] ;Portland, Oregon :Hart Publishing,2017.1 online resource (271 pages) illustrations, tables1-5099-3006-X 1-5099-0684-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Torture and liberal democracies -- Enabling and constraining activism -- America's use of torture after 9 -- 11 -- Australia -- The United Kingdom -- Canada.This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11. Did they resist, tolerate or support the Bush Administration's policies concerning the mistreatment of detainees when their own citizens were implicated and what were the reasons for their actions? Australia, the UK and Canada are liberal democracies sharing similar political cultures, values and alliances with America; yet they behaved differently when their citizens, caught up in the War on Terror, were tortured. How states responded to citizens' human rights claims and predicaments was shaped, in part, by demands for accountability placed on the executive government by domestic actors. This book argues that civil society actors, in particular, were influenced by nuanced differences in their national political and legal contexts that enabled or constrained human rights activism. It maps the conditions under which individuals and groups were more or less likely to become engaged when fellow citizens were tortured, focusing on national rights culture, the domestic legal and political human rights framework, and political opportunitiesSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001Terrorism (International law)TerrorismPreventionLaw and legislationTorture (International law)TortureUnited StatesLawSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.Terrorism (International law)TerrorismPreventionLaw and legislation.Torture (International law)Torture364.6/7Banham Cynthia1208355UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910162762503321Liberal democracies and the torture of their citizens2787549UNINA