Full Description
Powers to outlaw or proscribe terrorist organisations have become cornerstones of global counter-terrorism regimes. In this comprehensive volume, an international group of leading scholars reflect on the array of proscription regimes found around the world, using a range of methodological, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives from Political Science, International Relations, Law, Sociology and Criminology. These perspectives consider how domestic political and legal institutions intersect with and transform the use of proscription in countering terrorism and beyond. The chapters advance a range of critical perspectives on proscription laws, processes and outcomes, drawing from a global range of cases including Australia, Canada, the EU, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the UK and the USA.
Using single and comparative cases, the authors emphasise the impacts of proscription on freedoms of speech and association, dissent, political action and reconciliation. The chapters demonstrate the manifold consequences for diasporas and minorities, especially those communities linked to struggles overseas against oppressive regimes, and stress the significance of language and other symbolic practices in the justification and extension of proscription powers. The volume concludes with an in-depth interview on the blacklisting of terror groups with the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence.
Contents
1. The Proscription or Listing of Terrorist Organisations: Understanding, Assessment, and International Comparisons Lee Jarvis and Tim Legrand 2. The Proscription of Terrorist Organisations in Australia Nicola McGarrity and George Williams 3. "They haven't gone away you know." The Persistence of Proscription and the Problems of Deproscription Clive Walker 4. Yesterday's Law: Terrorist Group Listing in Canada Craig Forcese and Kent Roach 5. The Tamil Proscriptions: Identities, Legitimacies, and Situated Practices Suthaharan Nadarajah 6. Terrorist Organization Proscription as Counterinsurgency in the Kurdish Conflict Vicki Sentas 7. Securitization and the Proscription of Terrorist Organizations in Spain Angela K. Bourne 8. Proscription's Futures Marieke de Goede 9. "More Symbolic—More Political—Than Substantive": An Interview with James R. Clapper on the U.S. Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations Tim Legrand
