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- Provides legal analysis on extraordinary rendition
- Distinguishes between various forms of accountability to focus the prospect of achieving “legal accountability” for complicity in Europe
- Shines a light on the capacity of international human rights law to resolve violations arising outside the precise parameters of extraordinary rendition
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book explores the potential of international human rights law to resolve one of the gravest human rights violations to have surfaced post 9/11: extraordinary rendition. Although infamously deployed as a counter-terrorism technique, substantial evidence confirms that European states colluded in the practice by facilitating the transportation of suspects through their airspace or airports and in some cases, secret detention on their territories. Despite recent findings of the European Court of Human Rights, difficulties persist in holding many European States accountable for the role they played both at the domestic and international level. Distinguishing between various forms of accountability and interrogating the evolving parameters of international human rights law, this volume will fill gaps in extraordinary rendition literature and influence the policies of European States.
Keywords
- extroardinary rendition
- European politics
- international human rights law
- counter-terrorism
- European Court of Human Rights
- human rights violations
- extradition
- European human rights law
- legal accountability
- European state responsibility
- diplomatic assurances
- detention
- interrogation
- irregular rendition
- forced rendition
- US government
- government-sponsored extrajudicial transfer
- transfer of foreign nationals
- custody detainees
- complicity in extroadinary rendition
Authors and Affiliations
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Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Suzanne Egan
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extraordinary Rendition and Human Rights
Book Subtitle: Examining State Accountability and Complicity
Authors: Suzanne Egan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04122-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04121-2Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04122-9Published: 26 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Human Rights, European Law, International Relations