The End of Reciprocity : Terror, Torture, and the Law of War (Hardcover)

Introduction; 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 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. Sources of national restraint in martial honor: the JAGs' intercession; 13. Sources of anti-reciprocity in national self-respect and transnational identity; Conclusion.