Book contents
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note from the Editor
- Part I The National Security State in Perspective
- 1 Who’s Checking Whom?
- 2 The Deep State and the Failed State: Illusions and Realities in the Pursuit of Security
- 3 A Tale of Two Countries: Fundamental Rights in the “War on Terror”
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
3 - A Tale of Two Countries: Fundamental Rights in the “War on Terror”
from Part I - The National Security State in Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note from the Editor
- Part I The National Security State in Perspective
- 1 Who’s Checking Whom?
- 2 The Deep State and the Failed State: Illusions and Realities in the Pursuit of Security
- 3 A Tale of Two Countries: Fundamental Rights in the “War on Terror”
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
While many scholars and experts posit a like-mindedness between the US and the UK when it comes to national security policy, Douglass Cassel argues that the differences outweigh the similarities and that the UK model, while it overreaches in some respects, notably surveillance policies, is more “civilized, or liberal,” than in the United States. Cassel addresses the causes of these differences as well as the ways in which the relationship between the UK and US intelligence agencies exploits these differences.
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- Reimagining the National Security StateLiberalism on the Brink, pp. 21 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019