Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The role of state responsibility in the face of global security threats : underlying assumptions, challenges, and shortcomings -- Crossing the conceptual Rubicon : understanding secondary norms of state responsibility -- State responsibility and global security in the light of unforeseen transnational phenomena -- Part II. Implementing state responsibility after 9/11 : institutional perspectives -- Advancing state responsibility through UN institutional mechanisms -- Institutionalizing the implementation of state responsibility in counterterrorism contexts : the interplay between the Security Council and international legal norms -- Part III. State responsibility as an institution in the global security scheme : forcible countermeasures, recourse to force, and the general framework -- Drawing on self-contained regimes : the connection between the use of force and state responsibility -- Please kill responsibility : counteracting global security violations with force.