Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in America's Asia Policy - 9781138436138

Name: Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in America's Asia Policy - 9781138436138
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This volume examines the extent to which the 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA compromised the promotion of an external human rights policy. It concludes that human rights policy depends predominantly on domestic factors. > \nThis book examines the effects of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of 11 September 2001 on America's human rights and counter-terrorism policies towards a number of countries in Asia. Five countries have been chosen for examination, divided into two front-lines states (Pakistan and Uzbekistan), two second-front countries (Indonesia and Malaysia), and a third-front country, China. The paper also looks at changes in US domestic legislation and its treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in order to analyse the extent to which the US promotion of an external human rights policy might also have been compromised by its own legislative changes as a result of the struggle against terrorism. \nThe paper concludes that the attacks on US n