Darius Rejali
Darius Rejali is Chair and Professor of Political Science at Reed College. He is the author of Torture and Democracy, winner of the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association, and the 2009 Raphael Lemkin Award for the best biennial book on genocide-related materials.
Darius Rejali’s Homepage and Articles
Darius Rejali on Wikipedia
Scott Horton interviews Darius Rejali for Harpers Magazine
Books by Darius Rejali
‘Friend and Enemy, East or West
by Darius Rejali
How does one choose one’s friends and identify enemies? A critique of modern realists using classical realist thinkers.
‘Torture Makes the Man’
by Darius Rejali
Explores the perception implicit in much torture apology that ‘democracy makes us weak’ and torture is the cure for such weakness.
Interviews with Darius Rejali
The best books on Violence and Torture, recommended by Darius Rejali
The author of Torture and Democracy gives a harrowing interview on the effects of violence, torture and trauma on the human being, ‘torture has a slippery slope and once you authorise it, it rapidly runs out of control’
