TY - JOUR
T1 - The Rhetoric of War: Words, Conflict and Categorization Post-9/11
AU - Gross, Oren
AU - Ni Aolain, Fionnuala
PY - 2014/12/31
Y1 - 2014/12/31
N2 - An atmosphere of crisis enhances the power, especially of the Executive Branch, to frame and shape the characterization, understanding,and reality of conflict. This Article addresses the language, rhetoric, status, and legality of “war” by examining the complexity of decision-making for policy-makers in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks ofSeptember 11, 2001. It does so by looking both inward, examining presidential war rhetoric in the United States, and outward, analyzing theexperience of democratic states with the legal construct of “emergency”and “war” under the relevant international human rights treaties.
AB - An atmosphere of crisis enhances the power, especially of the Executive Branch, to frame and shape the characterization, understanding,and reality of conflict. This Article addresses the language, rhetoric, status, and legality of “war” by examining the complexity of decision-making for policy-makers in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks ofSeptember 11, 2001. It does so by looking both inward, examining presidential war rhetoric in the United States, and outward, analyzing theexperience of democratic states with the legal construct of “emergency”and “war” under the relevant international human rights treaties.
KW - Legality
KW - War
KW - Emergency
KW - Crisis
KW - International Human Rights
UR - https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cjlpp/vol24/iss2/1/
UR - https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/the-rhetoric-of-war-words-conflict-and-categorization-post-911-3
M3 - Article
VL - 24
SP - 241
EP - 289
JO - Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
JF - Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
SN - 1069-0565
IS - 2
M1 - 1
ER -
