I just had a paper come out in the Journal of Military Ethics entitled “The War on Terror and the Ethics of Exceptionalism“, JME 8.4 (2009): 265-288. These ideas also figure into the current book project (as Chapter 3), but work as a stand-alone paper as well. The basic idea is to try to think through how the contemporary advent of terrorism challenges traditional norms and what “exceptionalism” amounts to in light of terroristic threats. The middle sections aim at a conceptual understanding of exceptionalism and the last one considers the ethics of making exceptions. Comments welcome!
