Stephen Morton (University of Southampton). States of Emergency (Liverpool University Press, 2013).
"States of Emergency . . . examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in literature and law. Through a series of case studies, the book considers how colonial states of exception have been defined and represented in the contexts of Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya and Israel-Palestine, and concludes with an assessment of the continuities between these colonial states of emergency and the 'wars on terror' in Iraq and Afghanistan. By doing so, the book considers how techniques of sovereignty, law and violence are reconfigured in the colonial present."
—From book jacket
Neta C. Crawford (Boston University). Accountability for Killing (Oxford University Press, 2013).
"Given the nature of contemporary war, where military organizations—training, and the choice of weapons, doctrine, and tactics—create the conditions for systemic collateral damage, Crawford contends that assigning sole moral responsibility for systemic collateral damage to individuals is insufficient. She develops a new theory of organizational moral agency and responsibility, and shows how the US military exercised moral agency and moral responsibility to reduce the incidence of collateral damage in America's most recent wars."
—Accountability for Killing book jacket
