This book examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic. The complex relationship between liberty and security has been fundamentally recast and contested in liberal democracies since the start of the 'global war on terror'. In addition to recognizing new agencies, political pressures, and new sensitivities to difference, it is important that not to over-state the novelty of the post-9/11 era: the war on terror simply made possible the intensification, expansion, or strengthening of policies already in existence, or simply enabled the shutting down of debate. Working from a common theoretical frame, if different disciplines, these chapters present policy-oriented analyses of the actual practices of security, policing, and law in the European Union and Canada. They focus on questions of risk and exception, state sovereignty and governance, liberty and rights, law and transparency, policing and security. In particular, the essays are concerned with charting how policies, practices, and ideas migrate between Canada, the EU and its member states. By taking ‘field’ approach to the study of security practices, the volume is not constrained by national case study or the solipsistic debates within subfields and bridges legal, political, and sociological analysis. It will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, sociology, law, global governance and IR in general. Mark B. Salter is Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa.
Author(s): Mark B. Salter
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 320
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
1 Special delivery: The multilateral politics of extraordinary rendition......Page 26
2 Miscarriages of justice and exceptional procedures in the “war against terrorism”......Page 43
3 Risk-focused security policies and human rights: The impossible symbiosis......Page 56
4 The North Atlantic field of aviation security......Page 75
5 Tracing terrorists: The European Union–Canada Agreement on Passenger Name Record (PNR) matters......Page 88
6 The global governance of data privacy regulation: European leadership and the ratcheting up of Canadian rules......Page 113
7 Made in the USA?: The impact of transatlantic networks on the European Union’s data protection regime......Page 125
8 Norms and expertise in the global fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism......Page 143
9 The accountability gap: Human rights and EU external cooperation on criminal justice, counter-terrorism, and the rule of law......Page 156
10 The role of NGOs in the access to public information: Extraordinary renditions and the absence of transparency......Page 177
11 Replacing and displacing the law: The Europeanization of judicial power......Page 213
12 Transjudicial conversations about security and human rights......Page 227
13 A coordinated judicial response to counter-terrorism?: Counter-examples......Page 251
14 The other transatlantic: Policies, practices, fields......Page 274
Bibliography......Page 281
Index......Page 309
