Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book elaborates ethical reflexivity as an attitude and a dialectic, dialogic, and affective process for magnifying and leveraging the tension between thought and action. It discusses the agency and responsibility in an organizational and social context and formulates more specific attitudes, dispositions, and tactics through which reflexivity can gain traction and take form in the global phronimos. The book extend its analysis to the case of 'enhanced interrogation' in the United States during the War on Terror, to extent the internal debate among policymakers and practitioners featured at least some agents who examined the issue with 'critical rationality' and acted on their ethical judgments. It considers an emerging security practice that seemingly presents many difficult ethical questions, but has, thus far, been largely neglected as an ethical dilemma by U.S. policymakers and the media.