After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the
globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening …

Contrary to commonsense understandings of torture as a form of information-gathering,
confessions elicited through the use of torture produce notoriously unreliable data, and most …

International regulatory agreements depend largely on self-reporting for implementation, yet
we know almost nothing about whether or how such mechanisms work. We theorize that self …

A great deal of constructivist international relations research on norms focuses on the
diffusion of liberal human rights values. In contrast, this article analyzes how critics seek to …

In an otherwise divisive campaign, the convergence of the two candidates' positions on the
“torture issue” represented a political breakthrough. The 2004 presidential debates occurred …

Under what conditions is secret diplomacy normatively appropriate? Drawing on pragmatic
theories of political and ethical judgement, this paper argues that a three-dimensional …

The opening of Guantánamo as a US detention centre in the initial phase of the 'war on
terror'in January 2002 and its continuing existence almost a decade later have spawned a …

This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of understanding its role in shaping
foreign policy. Recent events, including covert intelligence gathering operations …

The military detention facility at the Guantánamo Bay naval base is the most enduring
manifestation of the US “war on terror.” It is also materially and symbolically central to US …

Despite a number of compelling entrapment claims in post-9/11 US terrorism cases, these
claims have nearly always failed. While previous research suggests possible reasons for …