War, Torture and Terrorism: Rethinking the Rules of International Security

by Gow; James

• ISBN13: 9780415465212
• ISBN10: 0415465214
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores the status and function of rules in relation to the use of military force and international security in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. iii
Preface	p. xvi
List of abbreviations	p. xviii
Introduction: rules and international security: dilemmas of a new world order	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Rules and international security	p. 3
Legitimacy	p. 9
Adaptability	p. 13
Enforcement	p. 15
Conclusions	p. 17
Rules and practices	p. 23
Rules for torture?	p. 25
Pandora's box	p. 25
The structure of torture	p. 28
Slippery slopes, inverted worlds	p. 33
Contextualising torture: rules and conventions in the Roman Digest	p. 39
Definitions	p. 40
Roman judicial torture: the rules	p. 43
Torture and truth	p. 46
Judicial torture and the Christians	p. 48
Conclusions	p. 51
Is torture ever justified? Torture, rights and rules from Northern Ireland to Iraq	p. 54
Introduction	p. 54
Torture: some preliminaries	p. 55
The Irish case	p. 57
The intersection of rights and torture	p. 59
Prisons - 'Special Category status'	p. 62
Conclusion	p. 64
Rules and legitimacy	p. 69
Cannon before canon: the dynamics of ad bellum rule change	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
Norms, rules and rule change	p. 73
The new norm: the R2P, failed states and the case of Afghanistan	p. 75
The UN and state-building, the Reform Panel's report	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 82
Preventive war a l'Americaine: in the fog of norms	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
The idea of prevention in the making	p. 87
The impact of the preventive use of force on post-9/11 politics	p. 90
The Gordian knot	p. 92
Untying the knot: possible scenarios for the future	p. 95
Future scenarios	p. 98
Rules and regulations	p. 103
Technology change, rule change, and the law of armed conflict	p. 105
Technological revolutions and "governability"	p. 106
The Hague and new weapons technologies: submarines in World War I	p. 112
Conventional weapons and the LOAC: blinding laser weapons	p. 115
Conclusion	p. 119
Rules and the evolution of international nuclear order	p. 125
The science and production systems	p. 126
The state system and nuclear deterrence	p. 129
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty	p. 130
The decay of international nuclear order after 1997	p. 133
Conclusion	p. 140
Rules and responsibility	p. 145
International rules, custom, and the crime of aggression	p. 147
Introduction	p. 147
Rules in international law	p. 148
Just war theory and aggression	p. 150
The Nuremberg "precedent"	p. 153
Jus cogens norms and the crime of aggression	p. 155
The rules of the international community	p. 158
Truth commissions and rules: justice and peace	p. 162
Introduction	p. 162
Truth commissions and state formation	p. 162
The TRC in Chile	p. 164
The South African TRC	p. 166
Trust and the role of rules	p. 169
Conclusions: the validity of truth and reconciliation commissions	p. 170
Questioning rules	p. 175
Absolute ends and dynamic rules: being political as human beings	p. 177
Introduction	p. 177
International politics and modernity	p. 179
Natural law and the "art" of politics	p. 182
Objectivity, security and international affairs	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 189
Inter arma, silent leges? The political community, Supreme Emergency and the rules of war	p. 195
The Supreme Emergency argument	p. 196
Supreme Emergency and contemporary international relations	p. 199
The just war tradition against Supreme Emergency	p. 201
Index	p. 206
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