THE OIC, THE UN, AND COUNTER - TERRORISM LAW - MAKING
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- Author: KATJA LH SAMUEL
- ISBN: 9781849462679
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The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities
compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which
counter-terrorism activities should occur at every level, including that of
intergovernmental organizations. This unique, timely, and carefully researched
monograph examines one such important yet generally under-researched and poorly
understood intergovernmental organization, the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation ('OIC', formerly the Organization of the Islamic Conference). In
particular, it analyses in depth its institutional counter-terrorism law-making
practice, and the relationship between resultant OIC law and comparable UN
norms in furtherance of UN Global Counter-Terrorism Stategy goals. Furthermore,
it explores two common (mis)assumptions regarding the OIC, namely whether its
internal institutional weaknesses mean that its law-making practice is
inconsequential at the intergovernmental level; and whether its self-declared
Islamic objectives and nature are irrelevant to its institutional practice or
are instead reflected within OIC law. Where significant normative tensions are
discerned between OIC law and UN law, the monograph explores not only whether
these may be explicable, at least in part, by the OIC's Islamic nature, and
objectives, but also whether their corresponding institutional legal orders are
conflicting or cooperative in nature, and the resultant implications of these
findings for international counter-terrorism law- and policy-making. This
monograph is expected to appeal especially to national and intergovernmental
counter-terrorism practitioners and policy-makers, as well as to scholars
concerned with the interaction between international and Islamic law norms.
From the Foreword by Professor Ben Saul, The University of Sydney Dr Samuels
book must be commended as an original and insightful contribution to
international legal scholarship on the OIC, Islamic law, international law, and
counter-terrorism. It fills significant gaps in legal knowledge about the vast
investment of international and regional effort that has gone into the global
counter-terrorism enterprise over many decades, and which accelerated markedly
after 9/11. The scope of the book is ambitious, its subject matter is complex,
and its sources are many and diverse. Dr Samuel has deployed an appropriate
theoretical and empirical methodology, harnessed an intricate knowledge of the
field, and brought a balanced judgement to bear, to bring these issues to life.