Torture
The Struggle over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5139510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary Foot (0000-0002-3538-7626, Antony's College, Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-151 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0047117806063844 |
| OpenAlex | W2010844939 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
The prohibition against torture has the status of a peremptory humanitarian norm. That is, it is considered binding on all states and no derogation under any circumstances is permitted. While the practice of torture has been widespread, until recently it had come to be understood that no representatives of the state could openly admit that they would use torture for fear of being removed from office and of having their state ostracized by 'civilized' nations. Why, then, given the rhetorical, moral and legal status of this prohibition, is torture being debated, contemplated and even resurrected as an unsavoury and allegedly necessary course of action in this counter-terrorist era? Why has the Bush administration set about trying to reduce the scope of what is meant by torture and degrading treatment, as well as to define a category of detainee who may be subjected to coercive methods of interrogation? And what efforts are being made to restore the status of a norm that has been seen as a distinctive kind of wrong? These are the main questions discussed in an article which examines the relationship between power and norms and the power of norms
Criminology · Human rights · Interrogation · Norm (philosophy) · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · State (computer science) · Terrorism · Torture · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy · Torture, Ethics, and Law
The anti-torture norm and cooperation in the CIA black site programme
The Spaces and Faces of Critical Terrorism Studies
When a gamekeeper turns poacher
What Isn't a Norm? Redefining the Conceptual Boundaries of “Norms” in the Human Rights Literature
La fabrique de la torture en contexte démocratique
Peremptory law, global order, and the normative boundaries of a pluralistic world
The Rules of the Game are Changing’
Threat construction in the Bush administration's post-9/11 foreign policy
Exceptionalism Again
Organizational processes and ontological (in)security
Human Rights-Compliant Counterterrorism
Historicizing waterboarding as a severe torture norm
Norm Regress
Remembering Sri Lanka's Southern Terror
The lawyers’ war
Vital Geographies
The Lawyers' War
| Citations per year | 0.89 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |