The harbinger theory : how the post-9/11 emergency became permanent and the case for reform / Robert Diab.

• North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11. Laws now authorise and courts have condoned indefinite detention without charge on secret evidence, mass secret surveillance, and targeted killing of U.S. citizens, suggesting a shift in the cultural currency of a liberal form of legality to authoritarian legality. This book demonstrates that extreme measures have been consistently embraced in politics, scholarship, and public opinion in a specific belief that 9/11 was the harbinger of a new order of terror. 

Ämnesord

War and emergency powers.  (LCSH)

Terrorism  -- Prevention -- Law and legislation. (LCSH)

Terrorism  -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- United States. (LCSH)

Terrorism  -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- Canada. (LCSH)

War and emergency powers  -- United States. (LCSH)

War and emergency powers  -- Canada. (LCSH)

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