Debating Targeted Killing

Debating Targeted Killing
Title Debating Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Tamar Meisels
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 329
Release 2020
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 019090691X

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"In this "For & Against" book, Jeremy Waldron and Tamar Meisels defend competing positions on the legitimacy of targeted killing. The volume begins with a joint introduction, briefly setting out the terms of discussion, and presenting a short historical overview of the practice --i.e., what is targeted killing, and how has it been used in which conflicts and by whom. The debate opens with Meisels' defense of targeted killing as a legitimate and desirable defensive anti-terrorism strategy, in keeping with both just war theory and international law. Meisels unreservedly defends the named killing of irregular combatants, most notably terrorists, during armed conflict. Additionally, she offers a possible moral justification for rare instances of assassination outside that framework, specifically with reference to recent cases of nuclear scientists developing weapons of mass destruction for the Iranian and Syrian governments The debate continues with Waldron's arguments focusing on the dangers and the inherent wrongness of governments' having the right to maintain death lists-lists of named individuals who are to be hunted down and killed. Waldron notes the many differences between individualized targeting and ordinary combat and he resists the attempt to assimilate targeted killing to killings in combat. Waldron also cautions us to consider carefully what a world of targeted killings will be like, the many abuses it is liable to, and why we should be very cautious, morally and strategically, in our thinking about it"--

Targeted Killing in International Law

Targeted Killing in International Law
Title Targeted Killing in International Law PDF eBook
Author Nils Melzer
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 523
Release 2008-05-29
Genre Law
ISBN 0199533164

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This title examines the international lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings in military and police operations. Analysing recent state practice and jurisprudence, it establishes when targeted killing may be considered lawful, and what legal restraints are imposed on the practice in times of war and peace.

Targeted Killings

Targeted Killings
Title Targeted Killings PDF eBook
Author Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 518
Release 2012-03
Genre Law
ISBN 0199646481

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The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers and philosophers grappling with the moral and legal limits of the war on terror. This text examines the legal and philosophical issues raised by government efforts to target suspected terrorists.

Targeted Killing

Targeted Killing
Title Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Markus Gunneflo
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 289
Release 2016-05-12
Genre History
ISBN 1107114853

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Explores the emergence of targeted killing in Israeli and US statecraft, and in the international law of force.

Targeted Killing

Targeted Killing
Title Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Thomas B. Hunter
Publisher Thomas Hunter
Pages 55
Release 2009
Genre Assassination
ISBN 143925205X

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This is an objective, strategic assessment of the role, usefulness, and logistical concerns posed by state-sponsored targeted killing and its overall efficiency in the current war on global terrorism.

Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing

Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing
Title Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 214
Release 2015-09-03
Genre Religion
ISBN 1442231572

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Drones have become an essential part of U.S. national security strategy, but most Americans know little about how they are used, and we receive conflicting reports about their outcomes. In Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing, ethicist Kenneth R. Himes provides not only an overview of the role of drones in national security but also an important exploration of the ethical implications of drone warfare—from the impact on terrorist organizations and civilians to how piloting drones shapes soldiers. Targeted killings have played a role in politics from ancient times through today, so the ethical challenges around how to protect against threats are not new. Himes leads readers through the ethics of targeted killings in history from ancient times to the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict, then looks specifically at the new issues raised through the use of drones. This book is a powerful look at a pressing topic today.

Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing

Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing
Title Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Kyle Grayson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 230
Release 2016-07-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1317238974

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The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and activist scrutiny of the policy processes through which targeted killing decisions have been made. While contributing to these ongoing discussions, this book aims to determine how targeted killing has become possible in contemporary counter-insurgency operations undertaken by liberal regimes. Each chapter is oriented around a problematisation that has shaped the cultural politics of the targeted killing assemblage. Grayson argues that in order to understand how specific forms of violence become prevalent, it is important to determine how problematisations that enable them are shaped by a politico-cultural system in which culture operates in conjunction with technological, economic, governmental, and geostrategic elements. The book also demonstrates that the actors involved - what they may be attempting to achieve through the deployment of this form of violence, how they attempt to achieve it, and where they attempt to achieve it - are also shaped by culture. The book demonstrates how the current social relations prevalent in liberal societies contain the potential for targeted killing as a normal rather than extraordinary practice. It will be of great use for academic specialists and graduate students in international studies, geography, sociology, cultural studies and legal studies.