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5 J. Int'l L & Int'l Rel. 17 (2009)
Exceptional Necessity - How Liberal Democracies Contest the Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment When Countering Terrorism

handle is hein.journals/jilwirl5 and id is 19 raw text is: Exceptional Necessity How Liberal Democracies Contest the Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment when Countering Terrorism ANDREA LIESE* I. Introdu ction ..................................................................................................... 17 II. A new quality of norm contestation? Or: what seems to be at stake in the torture debate?................................................................................................... 23 III. 'Time to think about Torture'? Determining meanings of a prohibition in the context of fights against terrorism............................................................. 26 1. Justifying 'measures': Invoking the ticking bomb scenario.................27 2. Trivializing abuses ................................................................................... 30 3. Reaffirming the prohibition of torture.................................................... 32 4. The end of the taboo? ............................................................................... 35 IV. Contested meaning as a challenge for approaches on norm diffusion and compliance in international relations and international law .......................36 V. H ow is contestation possible?...................................................................... 41 V I. C onclusion ..................................................................................................... 45 I. Introduction On Human Rights Day, 7 December 2005, Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, shared her concern that national strategies * Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, Assistant Professor for International Relations. Previous drafts of this article were presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Chicago (2007) and the British-German International Relations Conference in Arnoldshain (2008). I thank Kirsten Ainley, Michael Barnett, Jan Dobbernack, Alexander Kelle, Uwe Puetter, Justin Rosenberg, Philip Schleifer, Antje Wiener, Ingo Venzke, the editors of this journal and the three anonymous reviewers for their comments, suggestions, and encouragement. © 2009 Journal of International Law and International Relations Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 17-47. ISSN: 1712-2988.

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