Review Essays

Topical Foci: Terrorism & Human Rights

The "Great Game" for the Twenty-first Century: Islamic Extremism and Central Asia By Ian Sethre

Reaping the Whirlwind by Michael Griffin. London: Pluto Press, 2001. 272pp.

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 281pp.

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 274pp.

Pinochet’s Chile: The United States, Human Rights, and International Terrorism By Todd Landman

International Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule in Chile by Darren Hawkins. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 259 pp.

The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier of Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh. New York and London: The New Press, 2003. 551 pp.

The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents by John Dinges. New York: The New Press, 2004. 322 pp.

Law, Human Rights, Realism and the “War on Terror” By J. Peter Pham

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 212 pp.

Beyond Power Politics: International Law and Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 World By J. Peter Pham

Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law by Antony Anghie. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 356 pp.

“I’m just talking about the law”: Guantánamo and the Lawyers By Marten Zwanenburg

Guantánamo: The War on Human Rights by David Rose. New York: The New Press, 2004.

The Ethics of Torture By Rebecca Evans

Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK? A Human Rights Perspective. Edited by Kenneth Roth and Mindy Worden. New York: The New Press, 2005. 201 pp.

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