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Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast, I'm Benjamin Wittis. Today's subject is a new book by

University of Toronto Law Professor Kent Roach entitled the 9-11 Effect, Comparative Counterterrorism.

The book, recently published by Cambridge University Press, takes a look at the response of the

United Nations and a bunch of countries to the 9-11 attacks, examining the common themes and

the responses of democratic countries. Roach, who is the editor in chief of Criminal Law Quarterly,

talked with LawFair's Alan Rosenstein the other day by phone.

Professor Roach, thank you so much for joining us today. So your book, the 9-11 Effect, is a very

rigorous and in-depth comparative study of counterterrorism, law and policy, post 9-11.

And the first thing I'd like to ask is if you could just give a summary of your project in this

book and your general approach and what do you think the main conclusions or the main takeaways

are from the book? Well, the book represents more or less a decade of research and service in

a lot of these areas. So I think that the main approach has been as an academic to say how can we

measure the effect that 9-11 made on a global basis? Now the book doesn't attempt to look at

obviously every jurisdiction but I think it does look at about 12 or 13 and it looks quite closely

at the United Nations. So in terms of the main conclusions of the book, I think I do find trends

towards increased state power in an attempt to prevent another 9-11 but that in each of these

countries there's a lot of continuity with respect to security practices before 9-11.

I also find that the UN Security Council has been a real driver of counterterrorism policy

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