After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
THE FIELD......Page 13
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND POWER......Page 19
The New Era\'s Inherited East/West Human Rights Geography......Page 22
The Human Rights Challenge to Power......Page 25
HUMAN RIGHTS DIMENSIONS OF THE AMERICAN/MIDDLE EASTERN ENCOUNTER......Page 29
STRENGTHENING THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT......Page 30
THE BOOK FROM HERE......Page 31
HUMAN RIGHTS, POWER, AND PARADOX IN AMERICAN IDENTITY POLITICS......Page 33
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MIDDLE EAST AS AMERICA’S CALLING......Page 39
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AS AMERICA’S PERIL......Page 41
Exceptional Times......Page 45
A Selective Privileging of Domestic Law......Page 51
Exceptional Nation......Page 54
THE MIDDLE EAST AS AMERICA’S PERIL......Page 60
Constructing the Enemy as Beyond Human Rights......Page 62
Positioning the “Lawless” beyond the Law......Page 64
Detainees’ Ascribed Guilt versus American Innocence......Page 65
Expanding the Enemy......Page 69
CONCLUSION......Page 71
ABU GRHAIB AS AN OPENING......Page 75
A BURGEONING AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN......Page 78
Human Rights NGOs......Page 81
The Media......Page 83
Congressional Leaders......Page 85
A POST-SEPTEMBER 11th ERA STRATEGY......Page 86
Shaming......Page 87
BRIDGING NORMATIVE DIVIDES......Page 89
Identity Politics, American Values, and the “This Is about Us, Not about Them” Formulation......Page 90
Fashioning International Law as Not Un-American......Page 92
Centering Domestic Law......Page 93
Security-Based and Utilitarian Arguments for Human Rights Compliance......Page 94
Enlisting the Military as Powerful Intermediary and Victim......Page 95
Mediating Boundaries......Page 96
Legislative and Policy Outcomes: Modest Inroads toward American Human Rights Compliance......Page 98
A New Era of American Human Rights Awareness, Engagements, and Consciousness......Page 100
A New Human Rights Infrastructure......Page 107
THE PERSISTENCE OF HIERARCHY: A CRITIQUE......Page 116
“This Is about Us, Not about Them,” Revisited......Page 117
The Trappings of Entwining Human Rights and Military Agendas......Page 120
CONCLUSION......Page 124
MIDDLE EASTERN INITIATIVES CHALLENGING AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS......Page 125
Civil Society Mobilizations......Page 127
Arab Governments Pressuring the United States......Page 132
Parting with East/West Scripts......Page 134
A Kuwaiti Human Rights Campaign in the United States......Page 136
Upholding Detainees’ Rights in Kuwaiti Courts......Page 140
AMERICANS TEACHING/LEARNING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST......Page 141
THE FUNDING CONUNDRUM......Page 146
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN RESPONSE......Page 153
CONCLUSION......Page 161
HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH THE PRISM OF AMERICAN VIOLATIONS......Page 162
American Abuses and Human Right Idea\'s New Legitimacy in the Middle East......Page 168
Bringing International Norms into the Domestic Realm through the Back Door......Page 173
AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHT PROMOTION......Page 177
Co-opting Reform......Page 178
Threats from Terrorists and Other Muslims......Page 180
Tentative Space......Page 183
Evolving Institutions......Page 187
Resources and Emerging Infrastructure......Page 192
The Domestic Human Rights Bargain......Page 195
Shifting International Relationships......Page 202
The Impact of Post-September 11th Human Rights Engagements......Page 206
CONCLUSIONS......Page 210
FIVE From the Ashes of the Post-September 11th Era: Lessons for the Human Rights Project......Page 212
REVISITING THE EAST/WEST GEOGRAPHY OF HUMAN RIGHTS: RECOGNIZING AMERICAN RELATIVISMS AND MIDDLE EASTERN UNIVERSALISMS......Page 213
REFINING HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMES......Page 222
AMERICAN MILITARY INTERVENTIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 229
ARE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAPTIVE TO POWER?......Page 242
CONCLUSION......Page 247
Conclusion......Page 249
EMERGING OUT OF THE ERA......Page 252
Bibliography......Page 257
Index......Page 261