The end of reciprocity : terror, torture, and the law of war / Mark Osiel.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Humanitarian law.

Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation.

Lex talionis.

Reciprocity (Psychology)

Part I. Reciprocity in humanitarian law

1. Reciprocity in the law of war : ambient sightings, ambivalent soundings

2. Reciprocity in humanitarian law : acceptance and repudiation

3. Humanitarian vs. human rights law : the coming clash

Part II. The ethics of torture as a reciprocity

4. Is torture uniquely degrading? : the unpersuasive answer of liberal jurisprudence

5. Fairness in terrorist war (1) : Rawlsian reciprocity

6. Fairness in terrorist war (2) : Kantian reciprocity

7. Humanitarian law as corrective justice : do targeted killing and torture 'correct' for terror?

Part III. Reciprocity in the social science of war

8. Reciprocity as civilization : the terrorist as savage

9. The inflationary rhetoric of terrorist threat : humanitarian law as deflationary check

10. Reciprocity as tit-for-tat : rational retaliation in modern war

11. The 'gift' of humanitarianism : soft power and benevolent signaling

Part IV. The end of reciprocity

12. Martial honor in modern democracy : the JAGs as a source of national restraint

13. Roots of anti-reciprocity : transnational identity and national self-respect.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521730143

viii, 667 p. ; 23 cm