Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial-Moral Treatment of the Other

by Clark Butler (Editor)

Overview

Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557534279
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Clark Butler is a professor of philosophy at the Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Among his publications are History as the Story of Freedom, Human Rights Ethics, and Hegel's Logic.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Soft American Empire Versus Playing the U.N.-E.U. Card, by Clark Butler
Part 1: Guantanamo Bay
Breaking the Tradition: The Case for the 640 Detainees in Guantanamo, by David Rudenstine
American Treatment of Detainees and the U.S. Supreme Court, by William Durland
Security, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights: Finding a Balance, by Jennifer Casseldine-Bracht
Terrorism, a New Challenge for International Humanitarian Law, by Anisseh Van Engleland-Nourai
On the Judicial Treatment of Guantanamo Detainees Within the Context of International Law, by Saby Goshray
Part 2: The Judicial Treatment of the Other
Ghandi’s Alternative to the Alien Other, by Richard Johnson
The Closed Society Versus the Rights to Emigrate and Immigrate, by W. L. Mcbride
Just and Favorable Remuneration: A Neglected Human Right, by Milton Fisk
Moral Rights, Moral Responsibility, and the Failure of Moral Knowledge, by Dallas Willard
Contributors
Index