Citation

Murray N. Race Class 2011; 53(2): 84-93.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Institute of Race Relations, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0306396811413046

PMID

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Abstract

Just over two years into the Obama administration, what have been its achievements in relation to the abuses formerly committed by the Bush administration under the rubric of the 'war on terror'? On his first full day in office, Obama, a former scholar of constitutional law, signed an order to close Guantánamo within one year. However, as the record of the past two years examined here shows, that early promise has not been fulfilled. Instead, the 'global war on terror' has continued to be prosecuted by his administration, and, in some areas, the extension of executive power, in apparent defiance of the US Constitution, has gone even further.