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Reimagining the National Security State

Join us Thursday, February 13th at 7pm for a panel discussion on Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink, edited by Karen J. Greenberg. She will be joined by Bernard E. Harcourt, Laura Pitter, and Michel Paradis.

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory, history, law, and policy, the essays in this volume illuminate the ways in which liberal democracy suffered at the hands of policymakers in the name of national security. The contributors, who are leading experts and practitioners in fields ranging from political theory to evolutionary biology, discuss the vast expansion of executive powers, the excessive reliance on secrecy, and the exploration of questionable legal territory in matters of detention, criminal justice, targeted killings, and warfare. This book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.

Karen J. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. Her most recent book is Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State (Crown, 2016). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Soufan Group Morning Brief and the Stroz Friedberg Cyber Brief. She is currently an International Studies Fellow at New America.

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and professor of political science at Columbia University and a director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University, he is the author of several books, including most recently The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens.

Michel Paradis is a senior attorney in the U.S. Dept. of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization. He is also a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a fellow at the Center on National Security. The views expressed are his own and do not reflect the position of the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof. @MDParadis











When: Thu., Feb. 13, 2020 at 7:00 pm
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Join us Thursday, February 13th at 7pm for a panel discussion on Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink, edited by Karen J. Greenberg. She will be joined by Bernard E. Harcourt, Laura Pitter, and Michel Paradis.

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory, history, law, and policy, the essays in this volume illuminate the ways in which liberal democracy suffered at the hands of policymakers in the name of national security. The contributors, who are leading experts and practitioners in fields ranging from political theory to evolutionary biology, discuss the vast expansion of executive powers, the excessive reliance on secrecy, and the exploration of questionable legal territory in matters of detention, criminal justice, targeted killings, and warfare. This book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.

Karen J. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. Her most recent book is Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State (Crown, 2016). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Soufan Group Morning Brief and the Stroz Friedberg Cyber Brief. She is currently an International Studies Fellow at New America.

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and professor of political science at Columbia University and a director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University, he is the author of several books, including most recently The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens.

Michel Paradis is a senior attorney in the U.S. Dept. of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization. He is also a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a fellow at the Center on National Security. The views expressed are his own and do not reflect the position of the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof. @MDParadis

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