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  • Homeland Insecurity

    The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law

    by Conor Gearty ...
    Series series History of Violence
    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 power, or fatally undermined?In this groundbreaking new book, Conor Gearty unpacks the history of ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Liberty and Security

    by Conor Gearty ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls our 'neo-democratic' world, the proclamation of universal liberty and security is mocked by facts on the ground: the vast inequalities in supposedly free societies, the authoritarian regimes with regular elections, and the terrible socio-economic ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • On Fantasy Island

    Britain, Europe, and Human Rights

    by Conor Gearty ...
    In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With the decision now taken to leave the EU, the future of the Human Rights Act and the UK's relations to the European Convention on Human Rights remains ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • On Fantasy Island

    Britain, Europe, and Human Rights

    by Conor Gearty ...
    In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With the decision now taken to leave the EU, the future of the Human Rights Act and the UK's relations to the European Convention on Human Rights remains ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Meanings of Rights

    The Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights

    Edited by Costas Douzinas, Conor Gearty ...
    Does the apparent victory, universality and ubiquity of the idea of rights indicate that such rights have transcended all conflicts of interests and moved beyond the presumption that it is the clash of ideas that drives culture? Or has the rhetorical triumph of rights not been replicated in reality? The contributors to this book answer these questions in the context of an increasing wealth gap ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Debating Social Rights

    by Professor Conor Gearty, Virginia Mantouvalou ...
    Series series Debating Law
    'Debating Law' is a new series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest.In this second volume of the series, Conor Gearty argues that for rights to work effectively in the wider promotion of social justice, they need to be kept as far away as possible from the courts. He acknowledges the value of rights ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Crime, Social Control and Human Rights

    From Moral Panics to States of Denial, Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen

    Edited by David Downes, Paul Rock, Christine Chinkin, Conor Gearty ...
    The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human rights. His writing, research, teaching and practical engagement in these fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. It amounts to a unique contribution, immensely varied yet with several unifying themes, and it has made, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law

    Edited by Conor Gearty, Costas Douzinas ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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  • Categorically Incorrect

    Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror

    by A. Alan Borovoy ...
    If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. The final goal of our country’s actions at home and abroad is the preservation of democracy. This is the lens through which our policies should be discerned, dissected, and amended.Borovoy argues that Canada has pursued an ethically cockeyed war against terror. We have been needlessly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy

    by Anthony H. Birch ...
    This highly acclaimed and popular academic text is now available in a new edition, having been revised and updated to cover the analyses of the use, abuse and ambiguity of many essential concepts used in political discourse and political studies. These include basic concepts such as liberty, democracy, rights, representation, authority and political power.New to this edition are three sections of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Fear's Empire

    War, Terrorism, and Democracy

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    "Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values."--Senator Gary HartThe author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrongand how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber exposes in detail the folly of an agenda of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Iraq War and Democratic Politics

    Edited by Alex Danchev, John MacMillan ...
    The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics. Subjects covered include:* the underlying moral and political issues raised by the war* US ... Read more

    $65.99 USD