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Human rights --- United States --- Middle East --- Abu Ghraib Prison --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Law and legislation --- Terrorism --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Prevention --- Abu Ghraib Prison. --- Baghdad Central Confinement Facility --- BCCF --- Muʻtaqal Abū Gharīb --- Sijn Abū Gharīb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayyib --- معتقل ابو غريب --- سجن أبو غريب

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This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's 'War on Terror' torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights mobilizations and discourses) and Middle Eastern attempts to challenge their own leaders' human rights violations in light of American interventions. This book presents snapshots of human rights being appropriated, promoted, claimed, reclaimed and contested within and between the American and Middle Eastern contexts. The inquiry has three facets: first, it explores intersections between human rights norms and power as they unfold in the era. Second, it lays out the layers of the era's American and Middle Eastern encounter on the human rights plane. Finally, it draws out the era's key lessons for moving the human rights project forward.

Human rights --- Terrorism --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Prevention --- Law and legislation --- Abu Ghraib Prison. --- Baghdad Central Confinement Facility --- BCCF --- Muʻtaqal Abū Gharīb --- Sijn Abū Gharīb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayyib --- معتقل ابو غريب --- سجن أبو غريب --- Law --- General and Others

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Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, as well as writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and others, Lazreg argues that occupying nations justify their systematic use of torture as a regrettable but necessary means of saving Western civilization from those who challenge their rule. She shows how torture was central to guerre révolutionnaire, a French theory of modern warfare that called for total war against the subject population and which informed a pacification strategy founded on brutal psychological techniques borrowed from totalitarian movements. Lazreg seeks to understand torture's impact on the Algerian population--especially women--and also on the French troops who became their torturers. She explores the roles Christianity and Islam played in rationalizing these acts, and the ways in which torture became not only routine but even acceptable. Written by a preeminent historical sociologist, Torture and the Twilight of Empire holds particularly disturbing lessons for us today as we carry out the War on Terror.

Torture. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Torture --- Cruelty --- Punishment --- Extraordinary rendition --- Atrocities. --- History --- Abu Ghraib Prison. --- Baghdad Central Confinement Facility --- BCCF --- Muʻtaqal Abū Gharīb --- Sijn Abū Gharīb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayyib --- معتقل ابو غريب --- سجن أبو غريب --- Algeria --- al-Dzāyīr --- al-Jazāʼir --- Algérie --- Algerien --- Algeriet --- Alg'eryah --- Algieria --- Algierska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Alg'iryah --- Alzhir --- Alžir --- Argelia --- Cezayir --- Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria --- Democratic Republic of Algeria --- Dżumhurija al-Dżazajrija asz-Szaabija ad-Dimukratija --- Gouvernement général de l'Algérie --- Jumhūrīyah al-Jazāʼirīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah wa-al-Shaʻbīyah --- Jumhūrīyah al Jazāʼirīyah ash Shaʻbīyah --- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria --- République algérienne démocratique et populaire --- אלג'יריה --- الجزائر‎ --- الدزاير --- Алжир --- Algeria (Provisional Government, 1958-1962)