When identity meets strategy
The development of British and German anti-torture policies since 9/11
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8911985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janina Heaphy (0000-0003-4229-9795, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-85 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00108367231184723 |
| OpenAlex | W4383876500 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Since 9/11, considerable research has been done on US interrogation and detention operations, but comparatively little is known about the involvement of other traditionally liberal states’ intelligence agencies and their evolving perspectives on torture-related policies for foreigners abroad. Particularly, the United Kingdom and Germany provide interesting cases; despite similar levels of public and political pressure regarding their indirect involvement in Central Intelligence Agency’s operations, the two states took different strategic decisions in 2010 on whether to implement new extraterritorial human rights safeguards. While the United Kingdom introduced a new intelligence guidance for interrogations overseas, the German government opted for policy-continuance, which raises the question why the two states embarked on different policy trajectories, even if they found themselves in contextually similar situations and were subjected to the comparable accountability measures. By bridging insights from Rationalist and normative literature, the article addresses this conundrum by clearly outlining the states’ differing strategic preferences, and by dissecting the multi-layered composition of these interests. As a result, the article delineates how strategic constraints pertaining to the states’ national, international, or political elite level affect decision-makers’ policy responses
Accountability · Agency (philosophy · Covert · Elite · German · Human rights · Interrogation · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Torture · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Public Administration · Torture, Ethics, and Law
The Persistent Power of Human Rights
Rationalism v. Constructivism
Critiques of the Rational Actor Model and Foreign Policy Decision Making
Constructivism in International Relations
Handbook of International Relations
Games Real Actors Play
The Party Politics of Foreign and Security Policy
Collective memory
Sophisticated Constructivism in Human Rights Compliance Theory
Entangling alliances? The UK's complicity in torture in the global war on terrorism
"The "difference engine
The Politics of Blame Avoidance
Do Self-Reporting Regimes Matter? Evidence from the Convention Against Torture
Rationalist explanations for war
The Behavioral Revolution and International Relations
Theorizing Agency in Hobbes's Wake
Norm Regress
Accountability, denial and the future-proofing of British torture
Cosmopolitan memory and national memory conflicts
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
| Highly cited | No |
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