The necessary evil of preventive detention in the war on terror
Subtitle: a plan for a more moderate and sustainable solution
By: by Stephanie Cooper Blum.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781604975666
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Law and legislation -- United States; Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Detention of persons -- United States
Description: "This book explores the underlying rationales for preventive detention as a tool in this war on terror; analyzes the legal obstacles to creating a preventive detention regime; discusses how Israel and Britain have dealt with incapacitation and interrogation of terrorists; and compares several alternative ideas to the administration's enemy combatant policy under a methodology that looks at questions of lawfulness, the balance between liberty and security, and institutional efficiency. In the end, this book recommends using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor a narrow regime of preventive detention only to be used under certain prescribed circumstances where interrogation and/or incapacitation are the justifications.

This book is an essential reference for collections in American studies, political science, and national security studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining the threat; title: Rationales for preventive detention in the war on terror; title: Lawfulness of preventive detention; title: Insight from Israel and Britain's preventive detention; title: Methodology for evaluating alternative regimes for preventive detention as a tool in the war on terror; title: Beyond the enemy combatant policy : alternative approaches for preventive detention in the war on terror; title: Conclusion : Congress, where art thou?.