Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism

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.

1. Introduction: Liberalism, Human Rights, Terrorism and Neo-Conservatism ; Liberalism ; Human Rights ; Terrorism and Terrorists ; Neo-Conservatism ; 2. Legal and Legitimate Use of Force: In the Struggle Against Global Terrorism Is the UN Charter Quaint? ; The Original Understanding ; The New Global Context and the Call for Loosened Restraints on the Use of Force ; The UN's Restatement of its Norms ; The Liberal Case for Conserving Normative Restraint ; 3. Cruelty and the National Interest: The Question of Legitimate Means ; Standards and the Post 9/11 Setting ; Deconstructing the Laws of War ; Liberal Values and the Temptation to Torture ; The Latin Americanization of the War on Terrorism ; 4. Terrorism, Communalism and Democracy: The Limits of Tolerance ; Civic Communities and Communities of Blood and Faith ; Communalism and Liberalism ; Reconciling Liberal Government and Minority Claims: General Principles and Human Rights Norms ; Liberal Values and Minority Claims: Toward Practical Accommodation ; Then ... What Is to be Done? ; 5. The iconic Conflict Between Israelis and Palestinians: The Normative Parameters of a Settlement ; The Legal Parameters of a Just Settlement ; The Problematics of Borders ; The Question of Forfeiture ; Israel and the Occupied Territories in Light of Human Rights Law and the Law of War ; A Legal Right in Search of a Remedy ; Conclusion: The South African Analogy ; 6. The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy ; Ideas and Actions ; Toward a Liberal Grand Strategy of Containment