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Book SynopsisWhy did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? These ideas are tested using comparative historical narratives drawn from two cases where torture was adopted - the War on Terror and the Stalinist Terror - and one where it was not - the Mexican War.
Trade Review'Tracy Lightcap's analysis of comparative case studies of interrogation policy is a sophisticated work of scholarship, which is well written, well organized, and carefully sourced. His use of the framework of political time provides valuable analytical leverage in understanding the use of interrogation policy in different political regimes and in different historical eras.' - James P. Pfiffner, George Mason University, USA, and author of Torture as Public Policy
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Questions, Designs, and Mechanisms A. Appendix One: Methods Used for Table 1.1 4. Crisis and Opportunity in the United States and the Soviet Union 5. The Mechanism Fails: The United States and the Mexican War 6. Torture and Leadership Projects B. Appendix Two: Personality and Leadership 7. Conclusions
