Rebecca Sanders
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4096489 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca Sanders |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca |
| APELLIDO | Sanders |
| FIRMA | SANDERS R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8018-6770 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
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From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people
From norm breaking to norm making
Blame Attribution, Partisanship, and Federalism
When disaster strikes in federal systems, who do citizens blame and why? Partisan blame attribution (PBA) suggests that Republicans and Democrats hold consistent ideological preferences on which level of government should respond and receive blame for policy failures in times of crisis. Conversely, partisan federalism (PF) suggests that partisans will opportunistically assign blame to the level of government controlled by their disfavored party. …
Patriarchal Populism
In recent years, populist movements and regimes have proliferated around the world, pledging to uphold the interests of the ‘pure people’ against corrupt ‘elites.’ Among right-wing populists, ‘globalists’ and feminists are cast in the latter role, framed as dangerous threats to the restoration of national greatness. Meanwhile, alleged ‘gender ideology’ is rebuked, while women’s reproductive and LGBTQ equality rights are legally curtailed. We exam…
Special issue introduction
In recent years, conservative governments and their civil society allies have undermined international women’s rights treaties and SOGI rights initiatives and challenged domestic rights protections. The articles in this special issue grapple with these trends by analysing the ideologies, discourses, and strategies of contemporary anti-feminism in global and comparative contexts. Several prominent patterns emerge: the core significance of social h…
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The rise of patriarchal populist leaders over the past decade has fortified a long-standing campaign by conservative governments and advocacy groups to undermine women’s international human rights. Their efforts have increasingly focused on revising language as a means to challenge and weaken the international norms and organizations essential to women’s and girls’ equality and health. Through our textual analysis of UN records, governmental and …
Opportunistic oppression
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in Spring 2020, the Trump administration invoked war against the coronavirus to severely restrict admission of migrants and asylum seekers into the United States. At the same time, it declined to enact national measures to control viral community spread and sharply criticised public health policies. We analyse this notable inconsistency as a case of opportunistic oppression whereby policymakers take advant…
Prospects for Realizing International Women’s Rights Law Through Local Governance
Trumping International Law
From bringing back waterboarding, to violating treaty obligations, to banning Muslims, Donald J. Trump has proposed numerous extralegal policies. We examine the implications of this disdain for legality, arguing that Trump's frequent hostility and indifference to legal rules and institutions paradoxically impede his capacity to enact his promises and damage international law. To situate Trump's legal politics, we draw comparisons with the Bush an…
Revisiting gendered states
In the volume Revisiting gendered states: feminist imaginings of the state in international relations, editors Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner and Jacqui True and their contributors explore the gendered construction of statehood and interstate interactions as well as the gendered impact of state power on citizens. Following in the footsteps of Spike Peterson's 1992 edited volume, Gendered states (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner), this latest offering r…
Response to Tanisha M. Fazal’s review of Plausible Legality
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Torture
Despite its universal and absolute prohibition in international human rights and humanitarian law, torture has persisted even in liberal democracies. This chapter traces how changing national security legal cultures have shaped justifications for torture in the United States, culminating in an extensive torture program in the global war on terror. A culture of exception helped legitimize slave torture, lynching, and colonial torture through much …
Deprivations of Life and Liberty
Post-9/11 American counterterrorism policy has strained legal prohibitions on arbitrary deprivations of life and liberty. This chapter surveys domestic and international legal norms governing killing and detention in peace and war and traces how Americans have justified breaking these rules over time. In cultures of exception, authorities invoked wartime necessity as well as explicitly racist logics to kill, deport, intern, and violate the due pr…
Plausible Legality
After 9/11, American officials authorized numerous contentious counterterrorism practices including torture, extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention, trial by military commission, targeted killing, and mass surveillance. While these policies sparked global outrage, the Bush administration defended them as legally legitimate. Government lawyers produced memoranda deeming enhanced interrogation techniques, denial of habeas corpus, drone strik…
Human rights abuses at the limits of the law
Law following and law breaking are often conceptualised as polar opposites. However, authorities in liberal democracies increasingly deploy a strategy of what I call plausible legality in order to secure immunity and legitimacy for proscribed practices. Rather than ignore or suspend law, they construct legal justifications for human rights abuses and other dubious policies, obscuring the distinction between legal compliance and non-compliance. I …
Norm spoiling
Women's social, economic and political equality and reproductive freedom have been rhetorically embraced by a majority of countries that have ratified international human rights treaties. At the same time, conservative states and non-state actors have waged a concerted campaign to undermine these principles at the United Nations. In this article, I trace the dynamics of what I call the strategy of norm spoiling. Norm spoiling is the process throu…
Norm Proxy War and Resistance Through Outsourcing
Legal Frontiers
The American embrace of “targeted killing” outside traditional theaters of war has proved highly contentious in recent years. According to detractors, the practice constitutes unlawful political murder or assassination. In contrast, proponents suggest the United States is engaged in a transnational, noninternational armed conflict with Al Qaeda and is thus permitted to kill enemy belligerents. This article demonstrates that arguments in favor of …
(Im)plausible legality
American government memoranda authorising controversial interrogation, detention, and surveillance practices raise questions about the role of legality in shaping post-9/11 counterterrorism. Have policy makers ignored the law and declared a ‘state of exception’? Alternatively, have they attempted to covertly evade rules through ‘plausible deniability’? This article suggests that the ‘Global War on Terror’ has been characterised by a distinctive r…
Research Notes
This article has been written by a student participant of the ‘Legal Research Methodologies in European Union and International Law’ workshop series as detailed in the three Research Notes - 'Legal Research Methodologies in European Union and International Law', by Tamara Hervey, Rob Cryer, Bal Sokhi-Bulley . The article introduces the student’s PhD project and details some of the methodological research issues which the AHRC funded workshops hav…
Dark Pasts, Dark Futures? Narrative, Constraint, and the Challenge of Ascendant Nationalism
Post-truth. Fake news. Alternative facts. Our contemporary politics are increasingly characterized by the dissemination of false and misleading information. When deployed by ascendant far-right nat
Special issue introduction
In recent years, conservative governments and their civil society allies have undermined international women’s rights treaties and SOGI rights initiatives and challenged domestic rights protections. The articles in this special issue grapple with these trends by analysing the ideologies, discourses, and strategies of contemporary anti-feminism in global and comparative contexts. Several prominent patterns emerge: the core significance of social h…
(Im)plausible legality
American government memoranda authorising controversial interrogation, detention, and surveillance practices raise questions about the role of legality in shaping post-9/11 counterterrorism. Have policy makers ignored the law and declared a ‘state of exception’? Alternatively, have they attempted to covertly evade rules through ‘plausible deniability’? This article suggests that the ‘Global War on Terror’ has been characterised by a distinctive r…
Norm spoiling
Women's social, economic and political equality and reproductive freedom have been rhetorically embraced by a majority of countries that have ratified international human rights treaties. At the same time, conservative states and non-state actors have waged a concerted campaign to undermine these principles at the United Nations. In this article, I trace the dynamics of what I call the strategy of norm spoiling. Norm spoiling is the process throu…
Norm Proxy War and Resistance Through Outsourcing
Control, alt, delete
The rise of patriarchal populist leaders over the past decade has fortified a long-standing campaign by conservative governments and advocacy groups to undermine women’s international human rights. Their efforts have increasingly focused on revising language as a means to challenge and weaken the international norms and organizations essential to women’s and girls’ equality and health. Through our textual analysis of UN records, governmental and …
Legal Frontiers
The American embrace of “targeted killing” outside traditional theaters of war has proved highly contentious in recent years. According to detractors, the practice constitutes unlawful political murder or assassination. In contrast, proponents suggest the United States is engaged in a transnational, noninternational armed conflict with Al Qaeda and is thus permitted to kill enemy belligerents. This article demonstrates that arguments in favor of …
Opportunistic oppression
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in Spring 2020, the Trump administration invoked war against the coronavirus to severely restrict admission of migrants and asylum seekers into the United States. At the same time, it declined to enact national measures to control viral community spread and sharply criticised public health policies. We analyse this notable inconsistency as a case of opportunistic oppression whereby policymakers take advant…
Prospects for Realizing International Women’s Rights Law Through Local Governance
Blame Attribution, Partisanship, and Federalism
When disaster strikes in federal systems, who do citizens blame and why? Partisan blame attribution (PBA) suggests that Republicans and Democrats hold consistent ideological preferences on which level of government should respond and receive blame for policy failures in times of crisis. Conversely, partisan federalism (PF) suggests that partisans will opportunistically assign blame to the level of government controlled by their disfavored party. …
Trumping International Law
From bringing back waterboarding, to violating treaty obligations, to banning Muslims, Donald J. Trump has proposed numerous extralegal policies. We examine the implications of this disdain for legality, arguing that Trump's frequent hostility and indifference to legal rules and institutions paradoxically impede his capacity to enact his promises and damage international law. To situate Trump's legal politics, we draw comparisons with the Bush an…
Human rights abuses at the limits of the law
Law following and law breaking are often conceptualised as polar opposites. However, authorities in liberal democracies increasingly deploy a strategy of what I call plausible legality in order to secure immunity and legitimacy for proscribed practices. Rather than ignore or suspend law, they construct legal justifications for human rights abuses and other dubious policies, obscuring the distinction between legal compliance and non-compliance. I …
Research Notes
This article has been written by a student participant of the ‘Legal Research Methodologies in European Union and International Law’ workshop series as detailed in the three Research Notes - 'Legal Research Methodologies in European Union and International Law', by Tamara Hervey, Rob Cryer, Bal Sokhi-Bulley . The article introduces the student’s PhD project and details some of the methodological research issues which the AHRC funded workshops hav…
(Im)plausible legality
American government memoranda authorising controversial interrogation, detention, and surveillance practices raise questions about the role of legality in shaping post-9/11 counterterrorism. Have policy makers ignored the law and declared a ‘state of exception’? Alternatively, have they attempted to covertly evade rules through ‘plausible deniability’? This article suggests that the ‘Global War on Terror’ has been characterised by a distinctive r…
Legal Frontiers
The American embrace of “targeted killing” outside traditional theaters of war has proved highly contentious in recent years. According to detractors, the practice constitutes unlawful political murder or assassination. In contrast, proponents suggest the United States is engaged in a transnational, noninternational armed conflict with Al Qaeda and is thus permitted to kill enemy belligerents. This article demonstrates that arguments in favor of …
Norm Proxy War and Resistance Through Outsourcing
Torture
Despite its universal and absolute prohibition in international human rights and humanitarian law, torture has persisted even in liberal democracies. This chapter traces how changing national security legal cultures have shaped justifications for torture in the United States, culminating in an extensive torture program in the global war on terror. A culture of exception helped legitimize slave torture, lynching, and colonial torture through much …
Deprivations of Life and Liberty
Post-9/11 American counterterrorism policy has strained legal prohibitions on arbitrary deprivations of life and liberty. This chapter surveys domestic and international legal norms governing killing and detention in peace and war and traces how Americans have justified breaking these rules over time. In cultures of exception, authorities invoked wartime necessity as well as explicitly racist logics to kill, deport, intern, and violate the due pr…
Plausible Legality
After 9/11, American officials authorized numerous contentious counterterrorism practices including torture, extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention, trial by military commission, targeted killing, and mass surveillance. While these policies sparked global outrage, the Bush administration defended them as legally legitimate. Government lawyers produced memoranda deeming enhanced interrogation techniques, denial of habeas corpus, drone strik…
Human rights abuses at the limits of the law
Law following and law breaking are often conceptualised as polar opposites. However, authorities in liberal democracies increasingly deploy a strategy of what I call plausible legality in order to secure immunity and legitimacy for proscribed practices. Rather than ignore or suspend law, they construct legal justifications for human rights abuses and other dubious policies, obscuring the distinction between legal compliance and non-compliance. I …
Norm spoiling
Women's social, economic and political equality and reproductive freedom have been rhetorically embraced by a majority of countries that have ratified international human rights treaties. At the same time, conservative states and non-state actors have waged a concerted campaign to undermine these principles at the United Nations. In this article, I trace the dynamics of what I call the strategy of norm spoiling. Norm spoiling is the process throu…
Response to Tanisha M. Fazal’s review of Plausible Legality
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Trumping International Law
From bringing back waterboarding, to violating treaty obligations, to banning Muslims, Donald J. Trump has proposed numerous extralegal policies. We examine the implications of this disdain for legality, arguing that Trump's frequent hostility and indifference to legal rules and institutions paradoxically impede his capacity to enact his promises and damage international law. To situate Trump's legal politics, we draw comparisons with the Bush an…
Revisiting gendered states
In the volume Revisiting gendered states: feminist imaginings of the state in international relations, editors Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner and Jacqui True and their contributors explore the gendered construction of statehood and interstate interactions as well as the gendered impact of state power on citizens. Following in the footsteps of Spike Peterson's 1992 edited volume, Gendered states (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner), this latest offering r…
Prospects for Realizing International Women’s Rights Law Through Local Governance
Special issue introduction
In recent years, conservative governments and their civil society allies have undermined international women’s rights treaties and SOGI rights initiatives and challenged domestic rights protections. The articles in this special issue grapple with these trends by analysing the ideologies, discourses, and strategies of contemporary anti-feminism in global and comparative contexts. Several prominent patterns emerge: the core significance of social h…
Control, alt, delete
The rise of patriarchal populist leaders over the past decade has fortified a long-standing campaign by conservative governments and advocacy groups to undermine women’s international human rights. Their efforts have increasingly focused on revising language as a means to challenge and weaken the international norms and organizations essential to women’s and girls’ equality and health. Through our textual analysis of UN records, governmental and …
Opportunistic oppression
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in Spring 2020, the Trump administration invoked war against the coronavirus to severely restrict admission of migrants and asylum seekers into the United States. At the same time, it declined to enact national measures to control viral community spread and sharply criticised public health policies. We analyse this notable inconsistency as a case of opportunistic oppression whereby policymakers take advant…
Patriarchal Populism
In recent years, populist movements and regimes have proliferated around the world, pledging to uphold the interests of the ‘pure people’ against corrupt ‘elites.’ Among right-wing populists, ‘globalists’ and feminists are cast in the latter role, framed as dangerous threats to the restoration of national greatness. Meanwhile, alleged ‘gender ideology’ is rebuked, while women’s reproductive and LGBTQ equality rights are legally curtailed. We exam…
Dark Pasts, Dark Futures? Narrative, Constraint, and the Challenge of Ascendant Nationalism
Post-truth. Fake news. Alternative facts. Our contemporary politics are increasingly characterized by the dissemination of false and misleading information. When deployed by ascendant far-right nat
Blame Attribution, Partisanship, and Federalism
When disaster strikes in federal systems, who do citizens blame and why? Partisan blame attribution (PBA) suggests that Republicans and Democrats hold consistent ideological preferences on which level of government should respond and receive blame for policy failures in times of crisis. Conversely, partisan federalism (PF) suggests that partisans will opportunistically assign blame to the level of government controlled by their disfavored party. …
Control, alt, delete
From ‘evil doers’ to ‘very fine people
From norm breaking to norm making
Political science (21 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Human rights (11 obras) · Law and economics (11 obras) · International Law and Human Rights (8 obras) · Political economy (8 obras) · Principle of legality (7 obras)