The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism

Explores the problems of rights, legitimacy and accountability in transnational counter-terrorism.

Fiona de Londras (Author)

9781107022737, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 February 2022

275 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.49 kg

'The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism provides the most detailed map yet of the complex post-9/11 architecture of global security law. De Londras shows how seemingly disparate counterterrorism projects at different sites and scales are interconnected in practice into a powerful new form of international legal ordering and highlights the profound political and normative stakes that arise as a result. This book will be indispensable reading for lawyers, counterterrorism scholars, policy-practitioners and others concerned with the dynamics of international and transnational lawmaking, the erosion of human rights and the expansion of unaccountable security powers.' Gavin Sullivan, Edinburgh Law School, The University of Edinburgh

The attacks of 9/11 kickstarted the development of a pervasive and durable transnational counter-terrorism order. This has evolved into a vast institutional architecture with direct effects on domestic law around the world and a number of impacts on everyday life that are often poorly understood. States found, fund and lead institutions inside and outside the United Nations that develop and consolidate transnational counter-terrorism through hard and soft law, strategies, capacity building and counter-terrorism 'products'. These institutions and laws underpin the expansion of counter-terrorism, so that new fields of activity get drawn into it, and others are securitised through their reframing as counter-terrorism and 'preventing and countering extremism'. Drawing on insights from law, international relations, political science and security studies, this book demonstrates the international, regional, national and personal impacts of this institutional and legal order. Fiona de Londras demonstrates that it is expansionary, rights-limiting and unaccountable.

Introduction
1. The institutions of transnational counter-terrorism
2. The law of transnational counter-terrorism
3. Ever-expanding transnational counter-terrorism
4. Transnational counter-terrorism in the domestic sphere
5. Accountability
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: International human rights law [LBBR], Public international law [LBB], Human rights [JPVH]