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Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror

Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror Book Reviews / International Criminal Law Review 9 (2009) 435–443 437 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/157181209X444220 Matthew Evangelista, Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror , Polity Press, Cambridge, 2008, ISBN–13: 978-074564196, ix + 165 pp. In Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror , Evangelista seeks to demonstrate how the nature of warfare and its governing principles have changed in response to the globalised threat of terror, and the legal and ethical implications that this will have for suspected terrorists and the international community. Th is commences through a discussion of the laws of war and a comparative analysis of the ‘political dynamics that infl uence the evolution of international legal and ethical practices’ (p. 12) and how they have changed following United State’s proclamation of its war on terror. Th is is followed by the defi nitional and controversial diffi culties in defi ning terrorism and what the practical implications of this inadequacy are. Evangelista identifi es the common theme that terrorism counts innocent civilian victims amongst the targets of violence, yet it remains unclear whether a state will be committing an act of terrorism when it deliberately kills innocent civilians of another http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Criminal Law Review Brill

Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror

International Criminal Law Review , Volume 9 (2): 437 – Jan 1, 2009

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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1567-536X
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1571-8123
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10.1163/157181209X444220
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Book Reviews / International Criminal Law Review 9 (2009) 435–443 437 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/157181209X444220 Matthew Evangelista, Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror , Polity Press, Cambridge, 2008, ISBN–13: 978-074564196, ix + 165 pp. In Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror , Evangelista seeks to demonstrate how the nature of warfare and its governing principles have changed in response to the globalised threat of terror, and the legal and ethical implications that this will have for suspected terrorists and the international community. Th is commences through a discussion of the laws of war and a comparative analysis of the ‘political dynamics that infl uence the evolution of international legal and ethical practices’ (p. 12) and how they have changed following United State’s proclamation of its war on terror. Th is is followed by the defi nitional and controversial diffi culties in defi ning terrorism and what the practical implications of this inadequacy are. Evangelista identifi es the common theme that terrorism counts innocent civilian victims amongst the targets of violence, yet it remains unclear whether a state will be committing an act of terrorism when it deliberately kills innocent civilians of another

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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