Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism brings together and subjects to critical scrutiny the core controversies connected to the so-called "War on Terror" such as: When is it legitimate and prudent to use force? Is torture ever justified? Do we need to nuspend human rights in order to fight terrorism? Is multi-culturalism the answer to communal conflict? Are terrorists responding to concrete U.S. policies or do they simply wish to destroy Western societies?
In it, the author argues that liberal intellectuals and political leaders have been slow to articulate a grand strategy informed by liberal values for confronting the issues surrounding global terrorism. The book outlines the framework of a liberal strategy, and exposes the costs of the neo-conservative alternative that has driven US foreign policy since 9/11.
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Dean Farer is a leading scholar in the fields of international law, international relations and human rights. He has been an official in the United States Government's Department of State and Defense, the President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Vice-President of the International League for Human Rights, a Wall Street Lawyer, and legal advisor to the head of the UN's 1993 mission in Somalia.
"Farer's deep understanding of international law and politics suffuses this important book as does his rich appreciation of the philosophical underpinnings of a liberal international order. He dissects the core assumptions of the neo-conservative agenda and forthrightly identifies the liberal values that have guided American Presidents since FDR as they defined America's global role. The next President has a window of opportunity to restore that unique bipartisan heritage which combines American interest, power, and values and secures American legitimacy. Farer's book is an important contribution if we are to seize the opportunity to revive the moral basis of American power in the emerging multi-polar world."
--Harry Kreisler, Executive Director Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley and Host and Executive Producer of Conversations with History
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