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International human rights institutions make a difference.1 Long before 9/11, European countries bound themselves to a strong transnational regime for the protection of human rights, whereas the United States rejected international supervision of its human rights practices. The divergence helps explain why the use of torture as a counterterrorist strategy following 9/11 met significantly greater resistance in Europe than the United States.
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Mayerfeld, J. (2011). The High Price of American Exceptionalism: Comparing Torture by the United States and Europe after 9/11. In: Goodhart, M., Mihr, A. (eds) Human Rights in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307407_7
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