Legal and Policy Implications for a New Era: The War on Terror

The purpose of this monograph is to survey the dominant characteristics of the War on Terror and to briefly highlight some of the legal and policy implications that confront the United States. Ultimately, even if one is cynical enough to believe that the world politic is ruled primarily by the application or threat of force,' it is nevertheless of critical importance from both a national and an international perspective that the United States rubricate its leadership role by thoughtful concerns for the positive advancement of the rule of law. The world's most precious commodities-the promotion of democratic values and human rights' -must not become causalities of the War on Terror