Tulsa Law Review Volume 41 Issue 4 The scholarship of Nadine Strossen Summer 2006 Internationalism and the Dilemmas of Strategic Patriotism John Fabian Witt Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/tlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation John F. Witt, Internationalism and the Dilemmas of Strategic Patriotism, 41 Tulsa L. Rev. 787 (2013). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/tlr/vol41/iss4/10 This Legal Scholarship Symposia Articles is brought to you for free and open access by TU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tulsa Law Review by an authorized editor of TU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Witt: Internationalism and the Dilemmas of Strategic Patriotism INTERNATIONALISM AND THE DILEMMAS OF STRATEGIC PATRIOTISM John Fabian Witt* I. INTRODUCTION It is an honor to talk today about the first woman leader of the most important civil liberties organization in the United States-a person who has combined the pursuit of American civil liberties with a deep interest in international law; who has viewed the civil liberties project as deeply bound up in a project of advancing feminism and women's freedoms; who has taken up the defense of individual rights in a time of national crisis, forging transatlantic networks to do so; who has resisted the dramatic expansion of the police powers of the federal government in a time of external threats; who has butted heads with an attorney general widely seen as overreaching; and who has defended dissenters even as terrorists caused mayhem and death in her home base in lower Manhattan.