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The end of reciprocity : terror, torture, and the law of war /
Why should America restrain itself in detaining, interrogating, and targeting terrorists when they show it no similar forbearance? Is it fair to expect one side to fight by more stringent rules than the other, placing itself at disadvantage? Is the disadvantaged side then permitted to use the tactic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reciprocity in the law of war : ambient sightings, ambivalent soundings
- Reciprocity in humanitarian law : acceptance and repudiation
- Humanitarian vs. human rights law : the coming clash
- Is torture uniquely degrading? : the unpersuasive answer of liberal jurisprudence
- Fairness in terrorist war (1) : Rawlsian reciprocity
- Fairness in terrorist war (2) : Kantian reciprocity
- Humanitarian law as corrective justice : do targeted killing and torture 'correct' for terror?
- Reciprocity as civilization : the terrorist as savage
- The inflationary rhetoric of terrorist threat : humanitarian law as deflationary check
- Reciprocity as tit-for-tat : rational retaliation in modern war
- The 'gift' of humanitarianism : soft power and benevolent signaling
- Martial honor in modern democracy : the JAGs as a source of national restraint
- Roots of anti-reciprocity : transnational identity and national self-respect.