Why Human Rights Are Losing Their Good Reputation
Guest post by Hannah Baron Human rights organizations and advocates continue to decry the lethal war against crime…
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Questions on Torture with Joe Young
In this interview, Joe Young talks about his new book, Tortured Logic: Why Some Americans Support the Use…
Local Problems, Local Solutions: Domestic Human Rights Institutions and Torture
Guest post by Ryan M. Welch. Over the last 15 years, the US government’s relationship with torture has…
Does Democracy Constrain Rulers or Pacify Dissidents?
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues After two decades of slow but consistent progress toward more democratic governance,…
Senate Report on Torture Seems Unlikely to Lead to Greater Accountability
By Leslie Vinjamuri The executive summary of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on torture, released…
The CIA Torture Program: A Case of Can’t Control or Won’t Control?
Guest post by Neil Mitchell The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tells us that America’s ineffective torture policy…
Do Revelations of Injustice Increase Violence?
By Erica Chenoweth Critics of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s use of…
The Trajectory of Public Opinion about Torture
By Will H. Moore In a forthcoming American Political Science Review article, Chris Fariss reports that: The standard of…
The Worst Kind of Torture
By Joseph Young Nearly all states torture. Kingdoms, personalist and military dictatorships, and even democracies use this tool…
Does Torture Work?
Guest post by Christopher Sullivan More precisely, does committing torture enable state forces to limit subsequent acts of violence?…