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

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[First edition].

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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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.

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September 03, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.