Offshoring the War on Terror

Offshoring is usually thought of in the context of globalization and economic activity. Yet a signal feature of the Bush Administration's quot;war on terrorquot; was the offshoring of core security functions. The most famous example is the use of Guantanamo Bay as a detention center, but many other examples of extraterritorial activity exist, such as the practice of quot;extraordinary rendition.quot; This chapter, drawn from a forthcoming book on Oxford University Press titled lt;ugt;Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?lt;/ugt;, charts and analyzes these developments, and associated judicial decisions such as lt;igt;Boumediene v. Bushlt;/igt;, with reference to larger trends in American politics and jurisprudence