Legal Instruments in the Fight Against International Terrorism

A Transatlantic Dialogue
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13901-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 738 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1538 g

This book finds its origins in a transatlantic colloquium held in the European Parliament in Brussels in May 2002. After an introductory overview of the US and European responses to 9/11 it addresses the main legal aspects of the fight against international terrorism, namely police and judicial cooperation (including mutual legal assistance, extradition and the role of entities like Europol and Eurojust), financial initiatives (e.g. by the UN Security Council, the FATF and the EU), human rights and rule of law issues (such as trial by military commissions, detention of alleged unlawful combatants and others, state of emergency derogations, due process, the death penalty and privacy) and international law aspects (inter alia self-defence, the application of international humanitarian law, prisoner of war status, the role of the UN, in particular the Security Council, sanctions and the negotiations on a comprehensive convention on combating terrorism). Each topic is considered from a US and from a European perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fijnaut, Cyrille J C F

Wouters, Jan

Naert, Frederik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Foreword: The Importance of a Transatlantic Dialogue in the Fight against Terrorism, G.R. Watson;
Summary of Contents;
Contents;
Table of Abbreviations and Instruments Cited in Short Form;
Introduction, C. Fijnaut, J. Wouters and F. Naert.
Part I. The Immediate American and European Response to 11 September;
The Attacks on 11 September 2001, and the Immediate Response of the European Union and the United States, C. Fijnaut.
Part II. Police and Judicial Cooperation; International Judicial Cooperation and Counterterrorism in the US, B. Zagaris;
Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union and Counterterrorism: an Overview, J. Wouters and F. Naert;
Countering the Threat of Terrorism in the EU in a Broader Organised Crime Perspective, W. Bruggeman;
EU Police Cooperation in the Fight against International Terrorism, W.G. Aldershoff;
Eurojust and EU Judicial Cooperation in the Fight against Terrorism, M. Coninsx.
Part III. Financial Counterterrorism Initiatives; International Financial Counterterrorism Initiatives, W. Gilmore;
Financial Counterterrorism Initiatives in Europe, M. Kilchling.
Part IV. Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law; Respecting Human Rights in the Fight against Terrorism, P. Lemmens;
International Human Rights and the United States Response to 11 September, D. Cassel;
Bull’s-eye? Two Remarkable EU Framework Decisions in the Fight against Terrorism, F. Verbruggen;
General Human Rights Principles Relevant to US-EU Counterterrorism Cooperation, I. Cameron;
Emergency Powers and Human Rights: the UK Experience, C. Warbrick;
Part V. International Law Aspects; Shockwaves through International Law after 11 September: Finding the Right Responses to the Challenges of International Terrorism, J. Wouters and F. Naert;
Al-Qaida, Military Commissions, and American Self-Defence, R. Wedgwood; Reviewing the UN Conventions on Terrorism: Towards a Comprehensive Terrorism Convention, A.R. Perera;
The Role and Attitude of the EU Regarding a Comprehensive Terrorism Convention, P. Rietjens;
Security Council Resolution 1373 and the Counter-Terrorism Committee: the Cornerstone of the United Nations Contribution to the Fight against Terrorism, E. Rosand;
Debating the ‘Smartness’ of Anti-Terrorism Sanctions: The UN Security Council and the Individual Citizen, R. Wessel;
Concluding Remarks, J. Nicholson;
Epilogue – Deepening the Transatlantic Dialogue, J. Wouters, F. Naert and C. Fijnaut;
Index of Authorities;
Index;
About the Editors and Authors.

Über Autor(innen)

Cyrille Fijnaut teaches International and Comparative Criminal Law at Tilburg University and Criminology and Criminal Law at Leuven University and is a Visiting Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. He has published many books, reports and articles in the field of organized crime, terrorism, international police and judicial cooperation and comparative criminal procedure and is co-editor of the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and of the International Encyclopaedia of Criminal Law.
Jan Wouters teaches International Law and the Law of International Organizations at Leuven University, where he is also Director of the Institute for International Law. He is a member of the Brussels Bar and counsel at Linklaters De Bandt in Brussels. He has published widely on international, EU and company and financial law.
Frederik Naert is Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for International Law of Leuven University, where he prepares a Ph.D. on European security organisations. He has published several articles and chapters on this topic and on international criminal law and terrorism.