Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Alex Bellamy and Roland Bleiker -- Part 1: Security and terrorism -- 1: Security studies, 9/11 and the long war on terror / Paul Williams 2: Cause and effect in the war on terror / Anthony Burke -- 3: 'War on terror'/'war on women' : critical feminist perspectives / Katrina Lee Koo -- Part 2: Ethics, emotions and law in the war on terror -- 4: Emotions in the war on terror / Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker -- 5: International law and the state of exception / Sara E. Davies -- 6: New thinking in the just war tradition : theorizing the war on terror / Cian O'Driscoll -- 7: Pre-empting terror / Alex J. Bellamy -- Part 3: fighting terror -- 8: Failures, rogues and terrorists : states of exception and the North/South divide / Richard Devetak -- 9: US bioterrorism policy / Christian Enemark -- 10: Intelligence and ethics in the age of terror / Hugh Smith -- 11: The international campaign to counter the financing of terrorism / Jason Sharman --Conclusion / Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak.