TY  - JOUR
A1  - Taylor, Isaac
T1  - State responsibility and counterterrorism
T2  - Ethics & Global Politics
N2  - It is widely thought that the international community, taken as a whole, is required to take action to prevent terrorism. Yet, what each state is required to do in this project is unclear and contested. This article examines a number of bases on which we might assign responsibilities to conduct counterterrorist operations to states. I argue that the ways in which other sorts of responsibilities have been assigned to states by political philosophers will face significant limitations when used to assign the necessary costs of preventing terrorism. I go on to suggest that appealing to the principle of fairness—which assigns obligations on the basis of benefits received from cooperative endeavours—may be used to make up the shortfall, despite this principle having received relatively little attention in existing normative accounts of states’ responsibilities.
KW  - terrorism
KW  - remedial responsibility
KW  - capacity
KW  - effectiveness
KW  - liability
KW  - principle of fairness
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42515
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-425156
SN  - 1654-6369
SN  - 1654-4951
N1  - Copyright: ©2016 I. Taylor. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
VL  - 9
PB  - Co-Action Publishing
CY  - Häggeby [u.a.] :
ER  -