Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ‘WAR ON TERROR’
- Introduction
- 1 Order, Rights and Threats: Terrorism and Global Justice
- 2 Liberal Security
- 3 The Human Rights Case for the War in Iraq: A Consequentialist View
- 4 Human Rights as an Ethics of Power
- 5 How Not to Promote Democracy and Human Rights
- 6 War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention
- 7 The Tension between Combating Terrorism and Protecting Civil Liberties
- 8 Fair Trials for Terrorists?
- 9 Nationalizing the Local: Comparative Notes on the Recent Restructuring of Political Space
- 10 The Impact of Counter Terror on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: A Global Perspective
- 11 Human Rights: A Descending Spiral
- 12 Eight Fallacies About Liberty and Security
- 13 Our Privacy, Ourselves in the Age of Technological Intrusions
- 14 Are Human Rights Universal in an Age of Terrorism?
- 15 Connecting Human Rights, Human Development, and Human Security
- 16 Human Rights and Civil Society in a New Age of American Exceptionalism
- Index
- References
9 - Nationalizing the Local: Comparative Notes on the Recent Restructuring of Political Space
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ‘WAR ON TERROR’
- Introduction
- 1 Order, Rights and Threats: Terrorism and Global Justice
- 2 Liberal Security
- 3 The Human Rights Case for the War in Iraq: A Consequentialist View
- 4 Human Rights as an Ethics of Power
- 5 How Not to Promote Democracy and Human Rights
- 6 War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention
- 7 The Tension between Combating Terrorism and Protecting Civil Liberties
- 8 Fair Trials for Terrorists?
- 9 Nationalizing the Local: Comparative Notes on the Recent Restructuring of Political Space
- 10 The Impact of Counter Terror on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: A Global Perspective
- 11 Human Rights: A Descending Spiral
- 12 Eight Fallacies About Liberty and Security
- 13 Our Privacy, Ourselves in the Age of Technological Intrusions
- 14 Are Human Rights Universal in an Age of Terrorism?
- 15 Connecting Human Rights, Human Development, and Human Security
- 16 Human Rights and Civil Society in a New Age of American Exceptionalism
- Index
- References
Summary
In the United States, in the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the tensions between security and civil liberties have become iconic of the new state of affairs. At the same time, that very state of affairs, like the claim that “everything changed after 9/11” (as one often hears), is both a cause and effect of the normalization of the opposition between the competing demands of security and civil liberties. The normalizing element that is the main focus of this chapter is the oft-heard premise that the opposition between security and civil liberty runs to the very core of democracy – as if order and disorder were competing interests. The connection to interests hints at the more fundamental context of the discourse of democracy's trade-offs, and that is the conditions of executive power in the midst of globalization. Security and civil liberties are not inevitably opposed in themselves. Rather, their state of tension refers to the state of play among the institutional arenas associated with them: security stands in for executive power at the national level, and civil liberties stands in for the political grassroots. In this chapter, I suggest that the problem for democracy implied by the contradictions drawn between security and civil liberties is not first a question of values conflict, but of political conflict between national and local forums over the future of neoliberal reform.
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