Guantanamo and Beyond: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Preventive Detention

[Excerpt] “January 11, 2011 began the tenth year of existence of the detention center at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (“Guantanamo” or “GTMO”). In human-being terms, what this means is that large numbers of men have been detained by the U.S. military for almost a decade, in prison-like conditions, without trial. In a pre-9/11 world, a “Guantanamo” and the idea of “detention without trial” would have been seen as decidedly un-American and a violation of our democratic values. Over the last decade, however, Guantanamo” and the practice of long-term detention without trial for terrorism suspects (or, “preventive detention”), have evolved into institutions of American society that are now perfectly acceptable, indeed desirable to some, and of little concern to many. Indeed, how did we get here, and where are we going? Will the Guantanamo detention center close down in the near future or remain open, housing men indefinitely in the war against terrorism? More significantly, will preventive detention continue its current trajectory, becoming a permanent fixture in America’s national security landscape?

Fitting China–US Trade into WTO Trade Law—National Security and Non-Violation Mechanisms

During the four years of the Trump presidency, there was much Sturm und Drang over the destruction of the rules-based international trading system. That system—first as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), then as the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as hundreds of preferential trade agreements among countries—has been one of the centerpieces of the post-World War II order.1 The Trumpian tempest battered these institutions, but did not break them. Even the Trans-Pacific Partnership survived— without the United States and with a different name.2 But the institutions and norms of international trade are questioned in 2022 in a way they were not in 2000, 2010, or 2015. The received wisdom about trade no longer looks as wise as it once did. Broadly raising tariffs on Chinese imports did not produce calamity; if it produced some higher prices, the needle on the consumer price index hardly oscillated.3 The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a hard look at the balance between maximally-efficient global supply chains and national capacity for essential products.4 An international trading system that was designed to be insensitive to anything but economic efficiency now seems—to many Americans and Europeans—troublingly out of step with saving the planet’s climate, standing up for human rights in other countries, and combatting income inequality. There are already ambitious efforts to reimagine the international trading system.5 Instead of questioning whether the United States needs to get out of the WTO, we should be imagining how we can get into a new world trade order—one that builds human rights, representative democracy, income inequality, environmental protection, and the struggle against climate change into the terms of trade. If done prudently and judiciously, creating a new world trade order is a project that will probably take longer than any GATT or WTO round before

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University Bibliography

Sixty original plays for primary grades

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

First grade reading materials of high interest level for children from the ages of seven through twelve.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Conditions for building a community of practice in an advanced physics laboratory

In this paper we explore the theory of communities of practice in the context of a physics college course and in particular the classroom environment of an advanced laboratory. We introduce the idea of elements of a classroom community being able to provide students with the opportunity to have an accelerated trajectory towards being a more central participant of the community of practice of physicists. This opportunity is a result of structural features of the course and a primary instructional choice which result in the development of a learning community with several elements that encourage students to engage in more authentic practices of a physicist. A jump in accountable disciplinary knowledge is also explored as a motivation for enculturation into the community of practice of physicists. In the advanced laboratory what students are being assessed on as counting as physics is significantly different and so they need to assimilate in order to succeed.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur

The Commons of the Tragedy

Presents findings from surveys conducted in September and October 2001. Looks at how the Internet was used by millions after the September 11 terror attacks to grieve, console, share news, and debate the nation's response