le sigh.
I’ve just been to the library and was distracted for about 15 mins in the legal section of the ‘nook’ reserved for the UN and human rights literature.
Just like so many bitter medicines, it’s difficult to consume this critically engaging, performanced-based, normative literature knowing that THOUSANDS of academics, civil servants, state delegates working for international cooperation and peace has been perverted by a few who seised an opportunity during crisis in the name of nationalism and other bigotries, see Stephen Gill (2012) Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership.
More than 140 countries have passed counterterrorism laws since the attacks of September 11, 2001, often with little regard for due process and other basic rights.
While every government has a responsibility to protect its population from attack, many have used the new measures to prosecute journalists, protesters, opposition politicians, and religious or ethnic groups under the guise of counterterrorism.
