The Trade-offs between Security and Civil Liberties in Russia's War on Terror: The Regional Dimension

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-406
Author(s):  
NABI ABDULLAEV ◽  
SIMON SARADZHYAN
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Trade Offs

Technology of Control and Control of Technology in Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (58) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Anna Oleszczuk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Domestic Security ◽  
Drone Warfare ◽  
And Control ◽  
Political Governance ◽  
Good And Evil

In the classic era of American comics, the overwhelming majority of superhero stories focused on the straightforward struggle between good and evil, with superheroes embodying the positive values such as justice, order, or patriotism. However, with time both the stories and the characters started to transform. By the end of the 1980s, new, darker series expressing distrust of political governance and all forms of authority started to emerge. In the aftermath of 9/11, this skepticism has found new fuel in a range of policies and actions collectively known as the War on Terror. The paper analyzes Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina (2004-2010) focusing especially on the series’ exploration of domestic security in the post-9/11 United States. The author links the protagonist’s superpower, the ability to communicate with the machines, to the developments in surveillance and drone warfare and investigates the comic’s reflections of such major concerns related to America’s surveillance and security as the constraints on civil liberties

Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 980-982
Author(s):  
Fiona Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Title I ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Future

Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’, Richard Ashby Wilson, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. xv, 347.Given this book's title, I assumed that it would consist mainly of elaborations of already over-rehearsed debates about the “trade-offs” between “liberty” and “security.” And while it does include plenty of this, several chapters in this volume offer thoughtful, nuanced analyses which challenge the dichotomous rhetoric of the day, and force the reader to rethink not just the future, but also the nature, of contemporary human rights and security.

scholarly journals From Left to Rights: Civil Liberties Lawyering Between the World Wars

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 622-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Weinrib
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
The World ◽  
American Civil Liberties Union ◽  
The Relationship

In the formative years of the modern First Amendment, civil liberties lawyers struggled to justify their participation in a legal system they perceived as biased and broken. For decades, they charged, the courts had fiercely protected property rights even while they tolerated broad-based suppression of the “personal rights,” such as expressive freedom, through which peaceful challenges to industrial interests might have proceeded. This article focuses on three phases in the relationship between the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the courts in the period between the world wars: first, the ACLU’s attempt to promote worker mobilization by highlighting judicial hypocrisy; second, its effort to induce incremental legal reform by mobilizing public opinion; and third, its now-familiar reliance on the judiciary to insulate minority views against state intrusion and majoritarian abuses. By reconstructing these competing approaches, the article explores the trade-offs – some anticipated and some unintended – entailed by the ACLU’s mature approach.

Race, Ethnicity, and the War on Terror

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Welch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Controls ◽  
New Policies

The unofficial War on Terror that began in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States expanded a wide range of formal social controls as well as more informal methods of punitive control that were disproportionately directed toward Muslims, Arabs, Middle Easterners, and those who were perceived to be. Although terrorism had been racialized long before 9/11, this event galvanized American support for sweeping new policies and practices that specifically targeted racial and ethnic minorities, particularly those who were immigrants. New agencies and prisons were created, individual rights and civil liberties were restricted, and acts of hate and discrimination against those who were racially, ethnically, and religiously stereotyped as potential terrorists increased. Although research shows that most domestic terrorism is not perpetrated by Muslims, Arabs, or those originating from the Middle East, the racialized stereotype of terrorists had a major impact on how the War on Terror was executed and how its implementation affected members of certain minority groups in the United States.

The New Civil Rights Movement

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunaina Marr Maira
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Global War On Terror ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Global War

This chapter explores the emergence of the “Muslim civil rights” movement, as well as interfaith alliances, in the post-9/11 era and how these shape or undermine cross-ethnic and cross-class coalitions. It discusses how civil liberties is a major political paradigm that young Muslim American activists have adopted since 9/11 but one that also confines their resistance, in many instances, to a nationalist discourse of inclusion that evades critique of U.S. imperialism. The investment in interfaith dialogue in some cases also suppresses critique of the global War on Terror, as well as as anti-Palestinian racism, and redirects resistance from cross-racial coalitions to safer forms of activism. The chapter addresses inter-racial tensions and examines how liberal “religious multiculturalism” and practices of “faithwashing” help produce an arrested politics.

U.S. Federal Data Mining Programs in the Context of the War on Terror

2010 ◽  
pp. 151-180
Author(s):  
Shahid M. Shahidullah
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time

This chapter examines the issues and concerns raised in the context of the recent growth of federal mining programs. The chapter argues that in the context of the war on terror, intelligence gathering on terrorist activities both within and outside the United States has emerged as one of the core strategies for homeland security. The major national security related federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense have developed a number of data mining programs to improve terrorism intelligence gathering and analysis in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. Some data mining programs have, however, raised a number of issues related to privacy protections and civil liberties. These issues have given birth to a wider debate in the nation and raised new tensions about how to search for a balance between the needs for the protection of privacy and civil liberties, and the needs for national security. The authors believe that the future of this debate is intimately connected to the future of the war on terror. Currently, Congress and the federal courts seem to be more in favor of supporting the preeminent needs of protecting national security. Through a number of enactments, Congress has broadened the federal power for collecting terrorism intelligence both at home and abroad. In a number of cases, the federal courts have ruled in favor of the doctrines of the “state secret privilege” and the “inherent power of the President” to emphasize the overriding need for protecting national security in the context of the war on terror. As America has embarked on a long and protracted ideological war against radical militant Islam, issues of national security and the need for data mining for detecting and analyzing terrorist activities are likely to remain dominant for a long time.

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