Advocating the Rule of Law and a Moral Approach in Combatting Terrorism and Drug Trafficking

This provocative work penetrates the adverse consequences of United States governmental realpolitik policies that deliberately uses illegal conduct to combat and defeat international terrorism and illicit narcotics trafficking. The book reveals the contradictions and costs of such illegal governmental conduct. As an alternative to central realist policies, Blakesley suggests following more closely the rule of law and adherence to constitutional law…[more]