Books in the Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents series

The focus of Volume 108 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is Extraordinary Rendition, the policy through which the U.S. transfers terrorist suspects to other national jurisdictions for the sake of torture-based interrogations. The volume's documents and expert commentary (by new Co-Editor Aziz Huq) present the world community's views on this policy, including the views of the U.N., the E.U., and five national jurisdictions. This volume also addressesthe legal problems inherent in America's international system of "black sites": CIA detention and interrogation facilities located outside the U.S.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. Volume 125, Piracy and International Maritime Security - Developments Through 2011, details the most recent initiatives at the multinational, regional, and domestic levels towards eradicating the maritime security threat stemming from piracy and armed robbery off thecoast of Somalia. Professor Kristen Boon has organized primary source documents by the UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, and UN bodies and NGOs, including international caselaw, that chart the global policies and efforts towards ending the immediate threat of piracy and armed robbery off the Somali Coast whilealso addressing its underlying causes.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. Among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), United Nations Security Council resolutions, reports and investigationsby the United Nations Secretary-General and other dedicated UN bodies, and case law from the U.S. and around the globe covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject indexand other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.Volume 126, The Intersection of Law and War, takes a fresh look at the ways in which law and war intersect in this modern age of multifaceted and multidimensional warfare. Professor Douglas Lovelace, Jr. has organized Congressional Research Service reports and United Nations studies to discuss how U.S. law and international law bear on contemporary national security issues such as: terrorism in the context of the war powers debate; the use of drones for targeted killings; maintainingand closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay; and illegal border crossing into the United States.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a hardbound series that provides primary-source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and case law covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a singletheme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.Volume 119, Catastrophic Possibilities Threatening U.S. Security, discusses the nightmare scenario of a catastrophic attack on the United States. While the U.S. national security apparatus remains focused on the "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan and appears to be postulating a future international security environment defined largely by threats increasingly posed by weak, failing, and failed states, astute strategists are not discounting the possibility of a catastrophic attack on theUnited States. In this volume, Douglas Lovelace presents a number of documents that help describe, explain, and assess the nature and severity of the threat of a catastrophic attack. Offering expert commentary for each section, Lovelace groups the documents into three categories: Catastrophic Potentialities inthe International Security Environment, Countering the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Materials, and Catastrophic Cyber Attack. Documents include a Department of Defense overview of the four categories of strategic challenges, a Government Accountability Office report addressing weapons of mass destruction and the actions needed to allocate resources for counterproliferation programs, and an insightful overview of the threat of catastrophic cyber-attack by the Department ofHomeland Security. The commentary and primary sources in Volume 119 will apprise researchers and practitioners of international law and national security of the perils of a catastrophic attack against the United States posed by terrorists, radicals, state failure, and humanitarian disasters.

Volume 118 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, International Nuclear Security contains documents that illustrate the implementation and evolution of the nuclear regulation, disarmament, and non-proliferation regimes created by various states and international bodies. Efforts to control nuclear weapons have redoubled since the events of September 11, 2001. In order to help States prevent and respond to the risk of nuclear terrorism, the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency established a nuclear security program in 2002 and the United Nations General Assembly also adopted the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism in 2005. Both instruments focus on verification and the various other documents in this volume provide acomprehensive look at modern efforts to combat nuclear security concerns.

Volume 117 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Conflict in Afghanistan, includes recent documents relating to the conflict in Afghanistan against the Taliban and its foreign allies. The volume addresses components of the new approach of integrating political and military strategies to improve Western approaches in the region. The first section of the volume includes documents generated by the North American Treaty Organization. These documents focus on the concept of counter-insurgency as a new approach to war-making. The second section focuses on documents issued by the United Nations: those describing the political side of the military conflict, the human rights situation, and the socio-economic dimension of international efforts. The third section portrays the European Union''s role in Afghanistan. The finalsection includes an overview of recent political and military developments. This collection of documents provides a comprehensive documentary overview of strategies in Afghanistan as of early 2010.

Volume 115 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Gangs, Terrorism, and International Disorder discusses the growing impact criminal groups have had on national and international security systems. As the nexus between gangs and terrorist groups becomes stronger, this volume will help analysts and governments better defend against their threats.

Volume 114 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, European Responses to Terrorist Radicalization, approaches the subject as it has been identified and addressed by the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany. The introduction to this provides background information on terrorist incidents, and evaluates the evolution of policy on radicalization. It also contains an analysis of radicalization generated by the Organization of Security andCooperation in Europe, providing insight into trans-European cooperation efforts relating to counter-radicalization policy in Europe.

Volume 111 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Discerning President Obama's National Security Strategy, makes available documents from the first fifteen months of the Obama administration that provide insights into its developing national security strategy. Included are documents detailing intelligence estimates and strategies as well as documents that outline important lessons regarding stability and reconstruction in Iraq. Additional documents providevaluable insight into the Obama Administration's Afghanistan and Pakistan Strategy. General Editor Douglas Lovelace, an expert in U.S. military matters, elucidates the complexities of military spending and of counter-insurgency tactics.

Although Bush Administration interrogation policies have generated much debate and concern in the public sphere, researchers often find themselves stymied by a lack of information and guidance on a still mysterious realm of the U.S. war on terror. Volume 109 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents ("Terror-Based Interrogation") answers that need with a comprehensive documentary presentation and authoritative commentary on that primary sourcematerial.

Use of Contractors in the War Against Terrorists explores the controversial issue of defense contractors.

Terrorism in India takes researchers inside a country currently reeling from its own major terrorist assault: India. For the first time, the Terrorism series devotes a full volume to that country's anti-terrorism policy and security challenges. The documents presented here include both background legislation and recent government responses to the Mumbai attacks.

Terrorism in Pakistan's value to researchers of Pakistani terrorism issues is immediately evident from the organization of the salient documents therein.

Cyberterrorism: Evolving Perceptions of the Threat focuses exclusively on the threat of cyberterrorism in the U.S. General Editor Lovelace has for this volume selected authoritative documents demonstrating the current homeland vulnerabilities to such an attack.

Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control is a hardbound series that provides primary-source documents on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Chief among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office, and case law covering issues related toterrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.Lebanon and Hezbollah charts the course of Hezbollah''s rise and Lebanon-based violence over the last five tumultuous years of that country''s history. The documents collected in this volume demonstrate not just key details in Hezbollah''s direct war on Israel but also the organization''s public relations and financial efforts, both over the Internet and in collaboration with Iran. But this volume''s usefulness can be found not just inits detailed history of Hezbollah''s multi-front campaign but also in several documents'' analysis of the suffering endured by Lebanese citizens, including the harm wrought by Israel''s response to Hezbollah. To complete the picture of Lebanon''s difficult recent history, Volume 92 also provides two classes of UN documents: Lebanon''s own reports on itscounter-terror work, and the Security Council''s measures related to the tribunal investigating Hariri''s assassination. For researchers seeking one volume in which all parties affected by the Lebanese crisis present their view, this volume will prove quite valuable.

Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control is a hardbound series that provides primary-source documents on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Chief among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office, and case law covering issues related toterrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.The Palestinian Territories and Hamas provides researchers with a thorough tour of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The documents making up that tour include not just reports on Hamas and Israeli military action but also analyses of such topics as the Palestinian economy, the EU''s relationship with the Palestinian Authority, and, most especially, the construction and consequences of the Security Wall. Although Volume 93presents the Israeli government''s view of Hamas violence, the volume also provides Hamas''s own charter and third-party statements on how some of Israel''s policies have harmed Palestinians. Volume 93 also gives researchers, in addition to the opinions of government agencies and international bodies, the viewpoints of both U.S. and international courts. This balancedpresentation of documents will allow readers to rely primarily on this book for the most common Palestinian-related research questions. Volume 93 provides researchers with a thorough tour of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The documents making up that tour include not just reports on Hamas and Israeli military action but also analyses of such topics as the Palestinian economy, the EU''s relationship with the Palestinian Authority, and, most especially, the construction and consequences of the Security Wall. Although Volume 93 presents the Israeligovernment''s view of Hamas violence, the volume also provides Hamas''s own charter and third-party statements on how some of Israel''s policies have harmed Palestinians. Volume 93 also gives researchers, in addition to the opinions of government agencies and international bodies, the viewpoints of both U.S. and international courts. This balanced presentation of documents willallow readers to rely primarily on this book for the most common Palestinian-related research questions.

Volume 107 of Terrorism, "U.N. Response to Al Qaeda", guides researchers through the history of one set of sanctions against those two organizations, sanctions based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1267. In addition to the pertinent U.N. resolutions, this volume presents EU implementing regulations and court cases challenging those regulations. The expert commentary from new Co-Editor Kristen Boon highlights the human rights implications of placing a givenperson on the list of parties whose assets must be frozen under 1267.

Volume 105: Narco-Terrorism explores the legal aspects of combatting narco-terrrorism, domestically in the U.S. and through international endeavors in Colombia and Afghanistan. This book serves as a one-volume guide to the relationship between the drug trade and terrorism. The volume's sections on Afghanistan and Colombia demonstrate the challenges faced by the international legal community in thwarting that relationship.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents provides expert commentary and primary-source documents on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional and Parliamentary testimony, reports by quasi-governmental organizations, and case law covering issues related to terrorism. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law. Overall, the serieskeeps users up to date on the panoply of terrorism issues now facing the United States and the world. Doug Lovelace, Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College, prepares U.S.-based volumes. Kristen E. Boon (Seton Hall School of Law) and Aziz Huq (University of ChicagoSchool of Law) prepare the international and foreign volumes.Volume 103: Global Issues takes readers on a tour of the world's regions most troubled by terrorist activity. In particular, General Editor Doug Lovelace has selected documents on Pakistan's havens for Taliban insurgents fighting against coalition forces in Afghanistan. Lovelace also here provides primary material dealing wih Pakistan's alleged role in the Mumbai attacks, Latin American terrorist developments, and China's putative cooperation with the U.S. in the latter's global anti-terrorcampaign. Lovelace frames all of these materials in balanced commentary that allows researchers to make their own conclusions on these urgent topics.

Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control is a hardbound series that provides primary-source documents on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Chief among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional and Parliamentary testimony, reports by quasi-governmental organizations, and case law covering issues related to terrorism. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.Overall, the series keeps users up-to-date on the panoply of terrorism issues now facing the U.S. and the world. About this VolumeVolume 89 introduces Terrorism researchers to the realm of European Union security law. With an ever-expanding immigrant population and a rising Islamic presence within Europe, the EU's quickly developing security law demands the kind of topically organized document collection that Volume 89 constitutes.

Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control is a hardbound series that provides primary-source documents on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Chief among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office, and case law covering issues related toterrorism. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law. Overall, the series keeps users up-to-date on the panoply of terrorism issues now facing the U.S.

Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control is a hardbound series that provides primary-source documents on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Chief among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office, and case law covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside eachvolume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law. Managing the Nation''s Borders During the Global War Against Terrorists presents three viewpoints on the problem of securing U.S. borders: the U.S. government''s self-assessment, the often critical judgment of independent agencies like the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") and the Congressional Research Service ("CRS"), and General Editor Douglas C. Lovelace''s own critique both of the governmental pronouncements and of those GAO/CRS reports. By presenting both the text ofborder-related regulations and these three perspectives on those regulations'' effectiveness, Lovelace provides researchers with a one-volume, comprehensive exposition of the topical issue of border security. Even more importantly, the documents and commentary in this volume will provoke policymakers and othergovernment staff into thinking differently and creatively about the challenge of securing borders that extend for thousands of miles over often harsh terrain. For example, Lovelace and some of the included authors challenge the notion that physical barriers alone will impede the entry of terrorists. Similarly, Lovelace here encourages his readers to envision borders not just as a means to regulate crime but also as a vehicle for international cooperation between, in this case, the U.S.,Mexico, and Canada. This volume is essential for any researcher seeking a current, tough-minded analysis of U.S. border security.

Detainee Treatment, Interrogation and Extraordinary Rendition in the War Against Terrorists leads researchers through the legal background to the headline-grabbing issue of coercive interrogation.