Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India
by
Jinee Lokaneeta
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay beg the question: has the “war on terror” forced liberal democracies to rethink their policies and laws against torture? Transnational Torture focuses on the legal and political discourses on...