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Torture, Rights, Rules and Wars: Ireland to Iraq

Andrew Mumford

University of Sheffield

This piece¹ responds to some of the challenges posed by Rosemary Foot in her article, ‘Torture: The Struggle over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era’, also published in International Relations. It looks again at the debates about the seeming rise in the acceptability of torture in the post-9/11 environment, reflects on what the use of ‘torture’ in Ireland during the 1970s might tell us, and suggests ways of thinking about rules, norms and the mistreatment of terrorist suspects.

Key Words: Alan Dershowitz • Rosemary Foot • international relations • internment • Iraq • Ireland • Henry Shue • torture

International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 1, 119-126 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0047117807073772


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