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Conversations on Law & Liberty: RESOURCES: Global Perspectives on American Values




 
Resources

British Report on "Community Cohesion" in Response to 2001 UK Race Riots
December 2001 British Home Secretary-commissioned report by independent review team, which raises issues of race, national identity and citizenship in contemporary Great Britain.

Committee to Free Lori Berenson FAQs
Frequently asked questions regarding Berenson, "a young woman held political prisoner in Peru."

Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The Historical Record
1998 Cato Institute empirical study by Ivan Eland of connection between U.S. involvement in international situations and terrorism.

International Perspectives on the Death Penalty: A Costly Isolation for the U.S.
By Richard Dieter, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center (October 1999).

Letter from China— Straight to Video: How the attacks are playing in the provinces
December 7, 2001 New Yorker article by Peter Hessler on quickly produced videos of the September 11 attacks found in shops in Wenzhou, China.

Messages to ABA from Bar Associations Around the World
Features more than 50 messages sent from bar associations around the world to the American Bar Association in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

Multinational Survey of Opinion Leaders on War on Terrorism
Part of the Global Attitudes Project, conducted by the Pew Research Center with the International Herald Tribune.

Norman Rockwell Posters Illustrating FDR's Four Freedoms.
Includes real audio of President Roosevelt's speech. Part of the "Powers of Persuasion Poster Art from World War II" exhibit from the National Archives.

Panel Discussion with Justices Breyer, Kennedy, and O'Connor
1999 Stanford Law School discussion with Supreme Court justices on judicial independence and judicial systems in the United States and around the world.

Proposed Citizenship of Canada Act
Proposed amendments to oath of citizenship sworn by new Canadians.

Uncle Sam's World in Political Cartoons
Part of online collection of "Political Cartoons and Cartoonists" edited by Jim Zwick, featuers images of "Uncle Sam," drawn from around the world. Covers the 20-year period from the Spanish-American War in 1898 until World War I.

Why Don't They Like Us?
November 2001 article by Stanley Hoffman in The American Prospect, which considers United States hegemony in a global era witnessing the "collapse of the barrier between domestic and foreign affairs in the state system."


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