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Brexiteer politicians – including those who hold high office – have elevated Brexit to the high principle of national sovereignty. Freed from the shackles of the treaties of Maastricht and Lisbon, and the architecture of the EU, Brexiteers trumpet supposedly regained sovereignty as only cause for celebration.
This book includes discussion of United Nations, African, American and European treaty-based human rights instruments which prohibit the use of torture – and the mechanisms for the enforcement of these treaty obligations. They are a reminder that constraints on national sovereignty are not necessarily the work of the wicked and that virtue is not always on the side of unlimited national sovereignty.