Human Rights and Non-discrimination in the 'War on Terror'

This book explores how three major liberal democratic states - the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany - have approached the challenge of the changing relationship between liberty and security by analysing the human rights impacts of their anti-terrorism laws and practices.The author evaluates contemporary anti-terrorism efforts for their compliance with the requirement that differential treatment on the basis of nationality, national origin, 'race', or religion is only compatible with the right to non-discrimination if there are objective and reasonable grounds for it. Is there, in the context of the current 'war on terror', sufficient justification for applying powers of preventive detention or trial by special tribunal only to foreign nationals? Are law enforcement methods or immigration policies that single out people for special scrutiny based on their national origin, or their ethnic or religious appearance, a suitable and proportionate means of countering terrorism?