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Förändring av folkrätten vid bekämpning av terrorism med militära medel

Svensson, Linda (2009)
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
The terrorist attack that shocked the world the 11th of September 2001, when two hijacked aircrafts flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York, came to change the world view for many people especially Americans that felt that the world around them where about to collapse. A new time had begun, a more frighten one. A new kind of terrorism where seen in the dawn, a kind that never had been more evil, and there for was passed to be extremely dangerous. The United States followed by the United Kingdom decided quickly to declare war against the terrorism. Unavoidable this decision led to the development of new interpretations of public international law when the US where unwilling to follow the rule of law. The approach that was... (More)
The terrorist attack that shocked the world the 11th of September 2001, when two hijacked aircrafts flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York, came to change the world view for many people especially Americans that felt that the world around them where about to collapse. A new time had begun, a more frighten one. A new kind of terrorism where seen in the dawn, a kind that never had been more evil, and there for was passed to be extremely dangerous. The United States followed by the United Kingdom decided quickly to declare war against the terrorism. Unavoidable this decision led to the development of new interpretations of public international law when the US where unwilling to follow the rule of law. The approach that was carried out has turned out to be indeed very brutal and torture of prisoners as one of the examples has been used as a legitimate interrogation method. There exist different kinds of opinions regarding how this development is ought to be understood. Therefore I have chosen to examine how autonomous the public international law is in states enforcement of counter terrorism strategies. (Less)
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author
Svensson, Linda
supervisor
organization
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Afghanistan, Human Rights, Norms, Public international law, Terrorism, Torture, Humanities, Humaniora, Mänskliga rättigheter
language
Swedish
id
1315830
date added to LUP
2009-01-08 00:00:00
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:49
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  abstract     = {{The terrorist attack that shocked the world the 11th of September 2001, when two hijacked aircrafts flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York, came to change the world view for many people especially Americans that felt that the world around them where about to collapse. A new time had begun, a more frighten one. A new kind of terrorism where seen in the dawn, a kind that never had been more evil, and there for was passed to be extremely dangerous. The United States followed by the United Kingdom decided quickly to declare war against the terrorism. Unavoidable this decision led to the development of new interpretations of public international law when the US where unwilling to follow the rule of law. The approach that was carried out has turned out to be indeed very brutal and torture of prisoners as one of the examples has been used as a legitimate interrogation method. There exist different kinds of opinions regarding how this development is ought to be understood. Therefore I have chosen to examine how autonomous the public international law is in states enforcement of counter terrorism strategies.}},
  author       = {{Svensson, Linda}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Förändring av folkrätten vid bekämpning av terrorism med militära medel}},
  year         = {{2009}},
}