Counter-terrorism and the Prospects of Human Rights: Securitizing Difference and Dissent

by Ipek Demirsu

Overview

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty. Demirsu presents a rich theoretical framework and a novel methodological design, premised on a multi-method qualitative research that offers a comparative analysis of counter-terrorism and human rights in Turkey and the United Kingdom. While Part I offers an analysis of the evolution of these two key policy-areas in relation to each other, Part II presents the findings of the frame analysis of parliamentary debates, both concluding by mapping out cross-cutting patterns in these two cases. As a result, the author demonstrates in detail how discourse and policy-making are mutually constitutive from a comparative angle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319508016
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	06/14/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ipek Demirsu is a post-doctoral research fellow at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Her research interests are in international and comparative politics, including human rights, security studies, qualitative research methods, and migration studies.

Table of Contents

Part I. National Security and International Norms: Sovereignty in the Nexus of Counter-terrorism and Human Rights.- Introduction.- 1. Sovereignty between Security and Human Rights Norms.- 2. The Evolution of Security Policies and the Language of Law-making.- Conclusion: Adjoining Theory and Method.- Part II. Comparative Policy Analysis: The Evolution of Counter-terrorism Policies vis-a-vis Human Right Obligations.- Introduction: International Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 World Politics.- 3. Counter-terrorism Policy in the Heartland of Liberal Democracy: An Account of Policy Development in the UK.- Chapter 4. Breaking with the Dark Past? Security Policies and the Status of Human Rights in Turkey.- Conclusion: Different Contexts, Convergent Practices.- Part III. Securitization and the Language of Rights in the Making of Counter-terrorism Policies.- Introduction: Policy Frames and the Analysis of Parliamentary Debates.- 5. Balancing under the State of Exception: Prevalent Policy Frames in the UK Legislative Process.- 6. Democratization and National Sensibilities: Prevalent Policy Frames in the Turkish Legislative Process.- Conclusion: Talking Security and Rights: The Interplay of Policy Frames in Turkey and the UK.- Conclusion. Reconciling Policy and Discourse.

Editorial Reviews

Counter-Terrorism and the Prospects of Human Rights explains the risks by keeping on the march in this direction. … this valuable book exhibits a more than interesting effort to discuss critically the future of democracy in the years to come while interrogating further on the manipulations often suffered by democracy in the hands of populism.” (Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Geoffrey Skoll, International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management, Vol. 7 (3), July - September, 2018)​

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