The Post-9/11 World and Change in Law, Ethics and Armed Conflict
| Date | 01 January 2015 |
| Author | Michael E. Newell |
| Published date | 01 January 2015 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829814552337 |
| Subject Matter | Review Articles |
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2015, Vol. 43(2) 714 –723
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1. A. Bergman-Rosamond and M. Phythian, “Introduction” in War, Ethics and Justice: New
perspectives on a post-9/11 world (New York: Routledge, 2011), 3.
The Post-9/11 World and
Change in Law, Ethics and
Armed Conflict
Michael E. Newell
Syracuse University, USA
Tuba Inal, Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 269 pp., £48.15 hbk).
Mahmood Monshipouri, Terrorism, Security, and Human Rights: Harnessing the Rule of Law
(Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, 308 pp., £25.30 hbk).
Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Mark Phythian (eds), War, Ethics and Justice: New
Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World (New York: Routledge, 2011, 190 pp., £30.00 pbk).
If the post-cold war security environment is associated with the introduction of ‘dis-
tinctively ethical language’ into debates concerning states’ international obligations,1
the post-9/11 world is the introduction of a high degree of complexity and uncertainty
into those debates. The adoption of the post-9/11 label carries with it an assumption of
change, and the balance between military necessity and legal and normative account-
ability is one area where this change has been rigorously contested. Two of the three
books under review here highlight how states have stretched the boundaries of permis-
sible behaviour in armed conflict since 11 September 2001. Bergman-Rosamond and
Phythian’s collection and Monshipouri’s book explore how confrontations tied to the
United States’ Global War on Terror have exposed multiple fault lines between security
and ethical concerns, including debates over state security versus human security,
Corresponding author:
Michael Newell, Syracuse University, 100 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244-1020, USA.
Email: menewell@syr.edu
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