During periods of intense conflict, either at home or abroad, governments enact emergency powers in order to exercise greater control over the society that they

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In the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States launched initiatives that test the limits of international human rights law. The indefinite

Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone