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The New American Encounter with International Human Rights Norms: The Road After Abu Ghraib

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Shadi Mokhtari*
Affiliation:
Osgoode Hall Law School; LL.M. 2005, Osgoode Hall Law School; J.D. 2002, University of Texas School of Law

Abstract

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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References

1 Vice President for Torture, Wash. Post, Oct. 26, 2005, at Al 8.

2 151 Cong. Rec. S11064 (2005) (statement of John McCain).

3 Interview with human rights NGO representative (Mar. 16, 2006).

4 Interview with congressional staffer (Feb. 24, 2006).

5 Risse, Thomas & Sikkink, Kathryn, The Socialization of International Human Rights Norms into Domestic Practices: Introduction, in The Power of Human Rights (Risse, Thomas, Ropp, Stephen, & Sikkink, Kathryn eds., 1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Cortell, Andrew & Davis, James, Understanding the Domestic Impact of International Norms: A Research Agenda, 2 Int’l Stud. Rev. 65, 70-71 (2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 Exchange between CNN anchor Wolfe Blitzer and Richard Falkenrath, a former Bush administration aide at the Georgetown University Law Center Forum: The War on Terror: Exercise of Civil Defense or Violation of Civil Liberties: A Discussion Focusing on Military Tribunals and Domestic Wiretapping (Feb. 16,2006). Other participants included Senator Arien Spector and Congresswoman Jane Harman.