Talking about torture: how political discourse shapes the debate

Preface -- Introduction -- The torture word -- The heartbreak of acknowledgment : from Metropolitan Detention Center to Abu Ghraib -- Isolating incidents -- Sadism on the night shift : accounting for Abu Ghraib -- "Honor bound" : the political legacy of Guantanamo -- The toxicity of tortur...

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Autor principal: Del Rosso, Jared (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY [u.a.] Columbia Univ. Press 2015
En:Año: 2015
Acceso en línea: Table of Contents (Publisher)
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Palabras clave:
Usa > Congress
Terrorismus
Bekämpfung
Folter
Vernehmung
Menschenrechtsverletzung
Politische Einstellung
Parlamentsdebatte
Einstellung
Akteur
Usa
USA > Folter > Politik > Terrorismus
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Sumario:Preface -- Introduction -- The torture word -- The heartbreak of acknowledgment : from Metropolitan Detention Center to Abu Ghraib -- Isolating incidents -- Sadism on the night shift : accounting for Abu Ghraib -- "Honor bound" : the political legacy of Guantanamo -- The toxicity of torture : waterboarding and the debate about "enhanced interrogation" -- From "enhanced interrogation" to drones : U.S. counterterrorism and the legacy of torture
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
Descripción Física:XVIII, 276 S., Ill., 24 cm
ISBN:978-0-231-17092-5
0-231-17092-0