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Counter-terrorism and the Prospects of Human Rights

Securitizing Difference and Dissent

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Authors:
  1. Ipek Demirsu

    1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Tuzla, Turkey

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  • Illustrates how acts of securitization yield serious ramification for democratic politics
  • Appeals to the field of security studies and human rights, as well as rule of law, freedom of expression, and public protest
  • A unique contribution to the field

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Counter-terrorism and Human Rights Norms in World Politics Today

    • Ipek Demirsu
    Pages 1-7

  3. Sovereignty Between Security and Human Rights Principles

    • Ipek Demirsu
    Pages 9-39

  4. The Language of Lawmaking and Its Effects: Mutual Constitution of Discourse and Policy

    • Ipek Demirsu
    Pages 41-60

  6. Securitization, Exceptionalism, and the Language of Rights in the Making of Counter-terrorism Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Policy Frames and the Analysis of Parliamentary Debates

      • Ipek Demirsu
      Pages 143-149

    3. Balancing in the State of Exception: Framing Counter-terrorism in the UK Legislative Process

      • Ipek Demirsu
      Pages 151-189

    4. Democratization and National Sensibilities: Framing Counter-terrorism in the Turkish Legislative Process

      • Ipek Demirsu
      Pages 191-229

    5. Talking Security and Rights: The Interplay of Policy Frames in Turkey and the UK

      • Ipek Demirsu
      Pages 231-240

    6. Conclusion: Reconciling Policy and Discourse

      • Ipek Demirsu
      Pages 241-248

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-283
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About this book

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty. Demirsu presents a rich theoretical framework and a novel methodological design, premised on a multi-method qualitative research that offers a comparative analysis of counter-terrorism and human rights in Turkey and the United Kingdom. While Part I offers an analysis of the evolution of these two key policy-areas in relation to each other, Part II presents the findings of the frame analysis of parliamentary debates, both concluding by mapping out cross-cutting patterns in these two cases. As a result, the author demonstrates in detail how discourse and policy-making are mutually constitutive from a comparative angle. 

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“Counter-Terrorism and the Prospects of Human Rights explains the risks by keeping on the march in this direction. … this valuable book exhibits a more than interesting effort to discuss critically the future of democracy in the years to come while interrogating further on the manipulations often suffered by democracy in the hands of populism.” (Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Geoffrey Skoll, International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management, Vol. 7 (3), July - September, 2018)​

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Tuzla, Turkey

    Ipek Demirsu

About the author

Ipek Demirsu is a post-doctoral research fellow at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Her research interests are in international and comparative politics, including human rights, security studies, qualitative research methods, and migration studies.

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