Just Security is proud to announce the publication of the latest book in our partnership with Oxford University Press, Perpetual War and International Law: Enduring Legacies of the War on Terror, edited by Brianna Rosen, Senior Fellow at Just Security and Director of the AI and Emerging Technologies Initiative. We are enormously grateful to Brianna for conceiving of and spearheading this brilliant contribution to the field of study and practice. The book is available for pre-order here.
Released to mark the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the volume offers a timely reflection on the enduring legacies of the post-9/11 era and prospects for moving beyond the war paradigm. It interrogates the blurring of the boundaries between war and peace, demonstrates how precedents set during the global “war on terror” continue to shape contemporary conflicts, and examines how this era of perpetual war might come to a close.
Bringing together leading legal scholars, ethicists, and national security experts, the 20-chapter book features contributions from Federica D’Alessandra, Linda J. Bilmes, Tess Bridgeman, Andrew Clapham, Tom Dannenbaum, Laura A. Dickinson, Anthony Dworkin, Mary L. Dudziak, Pablo de Greiff, Adil Ahmad Haque, Oona A. Hathaway, Harold Hongju Koh, Alberto J. Mora, Priyanka Motaparthy, Radya al-Mutawakel, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons), Faiza Patel, Brianna Rosen, Cheyney Ryan, Timor Sharan, Elad Uzan, and Sir Michael Wood KCMG, KC.
The volume builds on Just Security’s Ending Perpetual War Symposium, as well as a series of workshops held jointly with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. It also continues the Just Security–OUP series’ engagement with pressing issues at the intersection of law and security, following the first book in the collaboration, Race and National Security, edited by Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf.
Perpetual War and International Law is a vital intervention for scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and students seeking to understand the enduring legacies of the post-9/11 era and to imagine a global order grounded in restraint and the rule of law.
