War, torture and terrorism : rethinking the rules of international security / edited by Anthony F. Lang, Jr. and Amanda Russell Beattie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rules for torture? / Nicholas Onuf -- Contextualizing torture : rules and conventions in the Roman Digest / Jill Harries -- Is torture ever justified? Torture, rights, rules from Northern Ireland to Iraq / Caroline Kennedy-Pipe and Andrew Mumford -- Cannon, before canon : the dynamics of ad bellum rule change / Janne Haaland Matlary -- Preventive war à l'Américaine : in the fog of norms / Ariel Colonomos -- Technology change, rule change and the law of armed conflict / Michael Smith -- Rules and the evolution of international nuclear order / William Walker -- International rules, custom, and the crime of aggression / Larry May -- Truth commissions and rules : justice and peace / Mario Aguilar -- Absolute ends and dynamic rules : being political as human beings / Amanda Russell Beattie -- Inter arma, silent leges? The political community, supreme emergency and the rules of war / Nicholas Rengger.