Cosmopolitans often argue that the international community has a humanitarian responsibility to intervene militarily in order to protect vulnerable individuals from violent threats and to pursue the establishment of a condition of cosmopolitan justice based on the notion of a ‘global rule of law’. The purpose of this article is to argue that many of these cosmopolitan claims are incomplete and ...

Abstract This article clarifies the ongoing confusion in doctrine and practice about both actual optimal interaction between international counterterrorism law (CTL) humanitarian (IHL) armed conflict. It discusses advantages disadvantages of co-application CTL with IHL, before considering a variety techniques for mutually accommodating interests regimes, particularly through partial exclusion c...